Event Details
Date & Time:
Thu May 21, 2026
12:30 PM-1:30 PM
Audience:
Open to the public
Details:
This webinar will provide an introduction to wall drawings conceived by Sol LeWitt (American, 1928-2007), with attention to how they are made and why the artist pursued this form of artmaking. Sol Lewitt’s Wall Drawing #215 is on view at the Block through June 14, 2026. The program will be introduced by Corinne Granof, Academic Curator. The presentation on Sol LeWitt’s practice will be given by Erica DiBenedetto, curator at the Chazen Museum of Art.
About the Speakers:
Corinne Granof is Academic Curator at the Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University where she directs curatorial initiatives with students and faculty. She is the co-curator of the current Block exhibition Pouring, Spilling, Bleeding: Helen Frankenthaler and Artists’ Experiments on Paper, and has collaborated on over 30 past exhibitions and publications for the Block, including Dissident Sisters: Bev Grant and Feminist Activism (2024); For One and All: Prints from the Block’s Collection (2023); Up Is Down: Mid-Century Experiments in Advertising and Film at the Goldsholl Studio (2018); and William Blake and the Age of Aquarius (2017).
Erica DiBenedetto is a newly appointed curator at the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a recognized expert on the artist Sol LeWitt. She formerly worked at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, where she served as a curatorial assistant and curatorial associate in the department of painting and sculpture. Erica also co-curated exhibitions at the Menil Drawing Institute in Houston and the Williams College Museum of Art in Massachusetts. She earned her PhD from Princeton University and her MA from the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art.
Contact The Block Museum of Art for more information: (847) 491-4000 or email us at block-museum@northwestern.edu