The Aspen Institute announced its artists-in-residence yesterday. Opera singer Renée Fleming and sculptor Theaster Gates will come to Aspen this summer for the Aspen Ideas Festival, as well as to participate in other Aspen Institute events nationally.
“I hope that in participating, I'm able to more clearly articulate the things I believe in while deepening the relationships that have become key to my successes,” Gates said in a press release.
Fleming is a Grammy-winning opera singer, and has performed and trained in Aspen numerous times over her career.
Gates is a potter, but has also studied urban planning. He turned a cluster of buildings on Chicago’s South Side into cultural spaces.
