Louis Grachos
Ernest and Sarah Butler Executive Director
The Contemporary Austin, Austin, TX

Locust Projects is pleased to announce its second year of Locust Talks, a lecture series that hosts visiting directors and curators from innovative institutions across the country and internationally for public lectures at the gallery space followed by individual studio visits with local artists, fostering a rigorous critical dialogue about art in the community.

The program launched in 2013 with Anne Pasternak, President and Artistic Director, Creative Time, New York; Lauri Firstenberg, Director and Chief Curator of LAXART; and Fairfax Dorn of Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX. Locust Talks will continue through 2015 with major support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.