By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Venus Williams has created masterpiece moments on court.
Next month, Venus goes behind the mic for compelling conversations with artists, writers, and scholars.
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Former world No. 1 Venus will host a six-episode podcast series as part of Carnegie Museum of Art presents Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape.
The podcast series hosted by Venus debuts on June 26.
The Carnegie Museum of Art initiative examines environmental history and change through the lens of the camera.
The project consists of an exhibition featuring nearly 100 works by 19 artists, on view from May 11, 2024, to January 12, 2025, in the museum’s Heinz Galleries, the Venus-hosted podcast premiering on June 26, 2024, an extensive suite of public programming, and a fully illustrated publication, offering visitors multiple entry points into the American landscape.
Four-time Olympic gold-medal champion Venus Williams is also an artist in her own right, who owns and operates her own interior design firm and apparel brand.
The partnership between the Musuem and Williams came to fruition through “a mutual interest in increasing access to art, engaging new and diverse perspectives, and provoking discussion around the exhibition’s timely, critical themes,” Carnegie Museum of Art said.
Williams, an avid collector of contemporary art with “a particular interest in promoting and preserving the legacies of artists of color, was drawn to the partnership as an opportunity to expand her knowledge of the photographic medium and engage a wide array of audiences who might not otherwise interact with a museum,” the Carnegie Museum of Art said in its announcement.
Further details on the podcast, including the full list of participants, can be found at carnegieart.org/widening-the-lens/podcast. The podcast will be available for download on Amazon, Anchor, Apple, Google, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
“I’m honored to partner with Carnegie Museum of Art on Widening the Lens, a deeply meaningful project that integrates art, environment and intentional storytelling,” Venus Williams said. “The participating artists and thinkers you’ll hear on the Widening the Lens podcast reflect diverse, global perspectives and a vast range of backgrounds and experiences; I am proud to help amplify their voices as they prompt us to consider new and alternative ways of…
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