Letter of Recommendation for LG Williams
Julia Friedman's recommendation letter is an unusually emphatic institutional testimonial for Williams as artist, teacher, publisher, and art historian. It roots their professional relationship in a 2004 CAA meeting, then moves through collaborative work on Drawing Upon Art, teaching at Arizona State University, and later editorial projects involving Dave Hickey. The letter's force comes from its insistence that Williams is not merely an artist who teaches, but an artist-teacher whose classroom energy, organization, and art-historical reach produce genuine intellectual commitment. It also frames his publishing work with Hickey as part of a wider public culture, linking books, reviews, symposia, and institutions. In the Samizdat archive, the document reads as evidence from inside the academy that the allegedly marginal practice had already become a serious pedagogical and scholarly force.
- DATE:
- July 14, 2017
- DOCUMENT TYPE:
- Letter / Open Letter
- NAMED ARTISTS / FIGURES:
- Julia Friedman; LG Williams; Dave Hickey; Gardner; Bruce Nauman
- INSTITUTIONS / VENUES:
- College Art Association; Cengage Learning; Arizona State University; Times Literary Supplement; Hammer Museum; SITE Santa Fe; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art; Contemporary Art Center, Las Vegas
- KEYWORDS:
- art-historical reach validated; artist-teacher distinction; energy and organization as pedagogy; Hickey collaboration as public culture; marginal practice as scholarly force; classroom as intellectual commitment; institutional testimonial as archive evidence