Nasher Prize Dialogues: Patricia Ayres, Omari Douglin, and Nora Naranjo Morse
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06 SEP 2025, 4 PM
Marlene Nathan Meyerson Auditorium at SITE SANTA FE
Sculpture and Storytelling
In partnership with SITE SANTA FE, the Nasher Sculpture Center presents Nasher Prize Dialogues: Sculpture and Storytelling, a conversation among artists Patricia Ayres, Omari Douglin, and Nora Naranjo Morse and moderated by Nasher Curator Dr. Leigh Arnold. The discussion, which will be held at SITE SANTA FE, stems from the 12th SITE SANTA FE International: Once Within a Time, curated by Cecilia Alemani, where each of the three artists are exhibiting three-dimensional work that explores narrative through biography, abstraction, imagination, and how human experience is shaped by societal forces.
About Leigh Arnold
Dr. Leigh Arnold is curator at the Nasher Sculpture Center and a scholar of Land art, Minimal, and Post-Minimal sculpture. Since joining the Nasher in 2013, Arnold has organized numerous exhibitions and presentations. Her 2023 exhibition Groundwell: Women of Land Art was a crucial reexamination of the important but under-recognized work of twelve women sculptors in the male-dominated field of Land art. Most recently, Arnold curated Hugh Hayden: Homecoming (2024) and Haegue Yang: Lost Lands and Sunken Fields (2025).
About the Nasher Sculpture Center
Located in the heart of the Dallas Arts District in Dallas, Texas, the Nasher Sculpture Center is home to the Raymond and Patsy Nasher Collection, one of the finest collections of modern and contemporary sculpture in the world. It features more than 700 masterpieces by Brancusi, Calder, de Kooning, di Suvero, Giacometti, Basquiat, Hepworth, LeWitt, Matisse, Miró, Moore, Picasso, Rodin, Serra, and Shapiro, among others. The Nasher Sculpture Center is open Wednesday through Sunday from 11 AM to 5 PM. Admission is $10 for adults, $7 for seniors, $5 for students, and free for children 12 and under and members, and includes access to special exhibitions.
For more information, visit www.NasherSculptureCenter.org.
The discussion is part of Nasher Prize Dialogues, the discursive platform of the Nasher Prize, the international prize for a living artist in recognition of a body of work that has had an extraordinary impact on the understanding of sculpture.
Patricia Ayres
Patricia Ayres is a New York-based artist. Ayres attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, received an M.F.A. from Hunter College, City Uni...Omari Douglin
Omari Douglin lives and works in Los Angeles. In 2019, Douglin received an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College. He rec...Nora Naranjo Morse
Naranjo Morse works in several mediums, including organic materials. The ephemeral installation “Always Becoming,” made of clays, packed earth, wood a...