Art Lecture Series – The Evergreen State College

01/15, Week 2: Catharina Manchanda

December 14, 2024 / Josselyn Haldeman

IN-PERSON in the Recital Hall in the Comm Bldg or live streamed on Zoom: https://evergreen.zoom.us/j/86447124526

Catharina Manchanda is the Jon and Mary Shirley Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Seattle Art Museum.

Originally from Germany, Catharina Manchanda received her Ph.D. in art history from the City University of New York (2005), where she wrote her dissertation on conceptual art and photography in 1960-70s German art.

Recent and current exhibitions include: Joyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams, the artist’s 50-year career retrospective, co-curated with Cecilia Wichmann at the Baltimore Museum of Art (October 17 2024-January 19, 2025); Elizabeth Malaska: All Be Your Mirror (November 17, 2023-June 16, 2024). Upcoming: Bethany Collins: At Sea (November 14, 2024-May 4, 2025); Following Space: Thaddeus Mosley & Alexander Calder (November 20, 2024-June 1, 2025).

https://curatorsintl.org/about/collaborators/18237-catharina-manchanda

01/29, Week 4: Eleni Stecopoulos

December 14, 2024 / Josselyn Haldeman

Eleni Stecopoulos is the author of Dreaming in the Fault Zone: A Poetics of Healing (2024), a book of linked critical lyric essays; Visceral Poetics (2016), a hybrid of criticism and memoir; and Armies of Compassion (2010), a poetry collection. Her writing has appeared in Pamenar Magazine, Best American Experimental Writing, Somatic Engagement: The Politics and Publics of Embodiment, Kitchen Table Translation, The Encyclopedia Project, Open Space (SFMOMA), NO GENDER: Reflections on the Life & Work of kari edwards, Datableed, ecopoetics, and elsewhere. In recent years she has given talks on poetry and psychotherapy at the University of Plymouth; on poetics and experimental ethnography at the University of Texas, Austin; on “outsider writing” at the University of Chicago; and on translation and healing at the Paros Symposium in Greece. Stecopoulos holds a PhD in literature and an MFA in creative writing. She taught at Bard College and the University of San Francisco and now works with writers as an independent editor and mentor. From New York, she lives in Northern California.

https://nightboat.org/bio/eleni-stecopoulos/

02/12, Week 6: Christopher Paul Jordan

December 14, 2024 / Josselyn Haldeman

Christopher Paul Jordan is a painter and public artist from Tacoma, Washington. Lacing salvaged textiles such as window screens and debris netting with acrylic paint, Jordan simulates cycles of removal to surface questions about human relationships. Through parallel practices in performance, installation, and sculpture, his investigations are often staged or permanently embedded in public space. Jordan’s first museum exhibition: In The Interim – Ritual Ground for a Future Black Archive, buries African American predictions of the end of the world on the grounds of the Frye Art Museum until the year 2123. His 20ft bronze, aluminum, and steel sculpture andimgonnamisseverybody (2021) is the centerpiece for The AIDS Memorial Pathway in Seattle. Jordan holds an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale School of Art (2023).

https://chrispauljordan.com/

02/26, Week 8: Jonathan Neufeld

December 14, 2024 / Josselyn Haldeman

Jonathan Neufeld is an Associate Professor at College of Charleston, South Carolina with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, a Master’s Degree in Philosophy from King’s College, London, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Columbia University. In his own words:

My research interests are in philosophy and music, aesthetics, political philosophy, and philosophy of law. I began university life as a viola performance major studying with Roland Vamos. After a year of hard practice and being in awe of my colleagues, I discovered the joys of political theory and U.S. constitutional law. After writing an M.A. thesis on deliberative democracy and the limits of public reason, I began to work on a Ph.D. dissertation on legal interpretation where I explored what has turned out to be a very fruitful parallel between musical performance and the interpretation of law in constitutional democracies. This led me carefully to consider the myriad relationships between the public performance of music and the political public sphere and has resulted in two book projects: Music in Public: How Performance Shapes Democracy (under contract with OUP) and Aesthetic Disobedience: Protest, Democracy and the Arts.

https://charleston.edu/philosophy/faculty/neufeld-jonathan.php

10/09, Week 2: Rachelle Mozman

September 27, 2024 / Josselyn Haldeman

Rachelle Mozman is an artist whose work is primarily based in photography and video. Through close study of the history of the Americas and the practice of psychoanalysis, her work seeks to situate the self in historical time, while contemplating possible futures. Born in New York City, Mozman now works between Brooklyn and Panama, “the home of [her] family, and deepest love stories.” Her work makes visual the often hidden mythologies reified by structures of power – “including the internalized kind.” Mozman is a Fulbright Fellow, and has exhibited in galleries in the United States, Mexico, Germany, France, Chile, Uruguay, and more. In 2021 she had a solo exhibition, All These Things I Carry with Me, at South Bend Museum, South Bend, IN. In 2020 Mozman released her monograph, Colonial Echo with Kris Graves Projects.

https://www.rachellemozman.com/

10/23, Week 4: Alison Cobb

September 27, 2024 / Josselyn Haldeman

Alison Cobb (pronouns she/her) is a native of Los Alamos, New Mexico– site of the construction of the first atomic bomb. She carries this history with her in her writing and collaborations. Her writing has appeared in Best American Poetry, Denver Quarterly, and Colorado Review, and many other journals. She has been a resident artist at Djerassi and Playa, and received fellowships from the Oregon Arts Commission and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Author of Plastic: an Autobiography (2021) her as a way to illuminate the “web of connections” a human life has to plastic, to “make real” for herself “and maybe for others the implication of the human imprint on this planet.” Cobb sits on the board of Fonograf, a literature and record label based in Portland, OR, also her current city of residence.

https://www.allisoncobb.net/

When: 11:30 a.m.- 1 p.m. Wednesday, October 23

Where: In-person in the Comm Building Recital Hall and live streamed via Zoom webinar

Zoom Webinar Link: https://evergreen.zoom.us/j/86447124526

11/06, Week 6: Satpreet Kahlon

September 27, 2024 / Josselyn Haldeman

Satpreet Kahlon is a Panjabi-born artist, organizer, and educator based on Coast Salish territories. She received a full-fellowship to pursue her MFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating in 2019. She co-founded and -ran an Indigenous arts organization that supported 400 artists with over $2m of opportunities and rematriated 1.5 acres of greenspace that was slated for development during her tenure from 2017-2023. For this work, she was named one of the Most Influential People in Seattle by Seattle Magazine in 2019.

Regarding her artistic practice, she has written in a statement: “My practice is concerned with illegibility, inscrutability, and collapse. Beginning with the understanding that most Indigenous cultures are existing in a post-apocalyptic reality, I approach the act of building sculpture as a kind of prayer: a futile attempt to communicate with and better know generations of lost, unknowable histories. An endlessly looping signal without reply.”

https://www.satpreetkahlon.com/

When: 11:30 a.m.- 1 p.m. Wednesday, November 6th

Where: Live streamed via Zoom in the Comm Building Recital Hall

Zoom Webinar Link: https://evergreen.zoom.us/j/86447124526

11/20, Week 8: Ellen Levy

September 27, 2024 / Josselyn Haldeman

Ellen Levy is the author of A Book About Ray (MIT Press, 2024), the first full-length survey of the career of the collagist and correspondence artist Ray Johnson (American, 1927-1995). Her other writings include Criminal Ingenuity: Moore, Cornell, Ashbery, and the Struggle Between the Arts (Oxford UP, 2011), and essays and reviews on poetry, visual art, theater, and television in such publications as Dissent, Genre, Modernism/Modernity, The Nation, Parkett, and Twentieth-Century Literature. She has taught at Pratt Institute, the School of Visual Arts, and Vanderbilt University.

https://www.abookaboutray.com/the-author-1

When: 11:30 a.m.- 1 p.m. Wednesday, November 20th

Where: In-person in the Comm Building Recital Hall and live streamed via Zoom webinar

Zoom Webinar Link: https://evergreen.zoom.us/j/86447124526

4/10, Week 2: Jessica Jackson Hutchins

March 21, 2024 / Jade Baker

Jessica Jackson Hutchins (b. 1971) lives and works in Portland, Oregon. Hutchins’ expressive and intuitive studio practice produces dynamic sculptural installations, collages, paintings, and large-scale ceramics, all hybrid juxtapositions of the handmade. As evidence of the artist’s dialogue with items in her studio, these works are a means by which the artist explores the intimacy of the mutual existence between art and life. Her transformations of everyday household objects, from furniture to clothing, are infused with human emotion and rawness, and also show a playfulness of material and language that is both subtle and ambitious. Based upon a willingly unmediated discourse between artist, artwork and viewer, Hutchins’ works ultimately serve to refigure an intimate engagement with materiality and form.

4/24 Week 4: Nina Elder

March 21, 2024 / Jade Baker

Artist and researcher Nina Elder creates deep time perspectives where planets, geology, and ecosystems are in constellation with social issues and personal narratives. With a focus on changing cultures and ecologies, Nina advocates for collaboration, fostering relationships between institutions, artists, scientists and diverse communities. Her work takes many forms, including drawings, murals, performance, pedagogy, and long term community-based projects.

Recent solo exhibitions of Nina’s work have been organized by SITE Santa Fe, Indianapolis Contemporary, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, and university museums across the US. Her work has been featured in Art in America, VICE Magazine, Hyperallergic, and on PBS. Her writing has been published in American Scientist and Edge Effects Journal and other scientific publications. Nina’s research has been supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation, the Rauschenberg Foundation, the Pollock Krasner Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation. Nina migrates between projects, adventures, and her rural home in New Mexico.

http://Www.ninaelder.com

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