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In this Spotlight Talk, presented as part of the MFA's 2020 Juneteenth community celebration, Michelle Millar Fisher, Ronald C. and Anita L. Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts, leads a conversation with artist Roberto Lugo.
Lugo blends traditional ceramics techniques and his own graffiti-informed aesthetic to memorialize important past and contemporary figures in clay, a medium that he sees as a long-lasting bearer of history. Here, he discusses his career and the multilayered work "Law and Order: The Reincarnation of Frederick Douglass," which is part of the MFA's collection.
In this Spotlight Talk, presented as part of the MFA's 2020 Juneteenth community celebration, Michelle Millar Fisher, Ronald C. and Anita L. Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts, leads a conversation with artist Roberto Lugo.
Lugo blends traditional ceramics techniques and his own graffiti-informed aesthetic to memorialize important past and contemporary figures in clay, a medium that he sees as a long-lasting bearer of history. Here, he discusses his career and the multilayered work "Law and Order: The Reincarnation of Frederick Douglass," which is part of the MFA's collection.
