Maintenance Artist (with director Toby Freilich in person)
about
NYC's first Sanitation Department artist-in-residence, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, blends public art with waste management in this documentary on her groundbreaking career.
When
Thursday, October 22, 2026
7:00-8:30PM
Where
Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center
Registration required. Fee required. Tickets required.
sponsor
Hood Museum of Art, Hopkins Center for the Arts
Intended Audience(s)
Public
details
NYC's first Sanitation Department artist-in-residence, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, blends public art with waste management in this documentary on her groundbreaking career.
Mierle Laderman Ukeles, inspired by Marcel Duchamp, pioneered the notion that routine maintenance—from changing diapers to picking up city trash to caring for the earth—could be acts of performance art.
With never-before-seen archival footage, Maintenance Artist tells a story of essential workers and radical contemporary art. Set during the social and artistic upheavals of the last half century, this provocative, penetrating and funny documentary fills a glaring cultural gap and heralds Ukeles' call for a Maintenance Revolution.
Discussion follows with director Toby Perl Freilich. Programmed in collaboration with the Hood Museum of Art
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For more information, contact:
Hopkins Center for the Arts
Hopkins.Center.for.the.Arts@dartmouth.edu
603 646 2422
Permanent URL: https://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=82444