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11/16 Wednesday, Week 8: Elisabeth Houston

November 2, 2022 / oshas

11:30- 1:00 PM Zoom link: https://evergreen.zoom.us/j/89462123483

Elisabeth Houston is a multidisciplinary artist and poet who is touring with a new book, Standard American English which brings readers deep into the world of baby, a persona she has been developing in performance contexts for nearly a decade. The poems in this debut collection emerge from the abject dialectic of baby’s psyche—where a self in formation staggers under the weight of sexual abuse, body image dysmorphia, rapacious materialism, fame obsession, and racial fetishism. What is witnessed here is the way late capitalism unfolds brutal games of power, affecting all dimensions of life, with the potential to consume and ravage individual actors, as well as entire communities and cultures. — Khadijah Queen

For recordings of previous lectures please go to our website: https://sites.evergreen.edu/artlectureseries/home/

11/2 Wednesday, Week 6: Negarra A. Kudumu

October 27, 2022 / oshas

11:30- 1:00 PM Zoom link: https://evergreen.zoom.us/j/89462123483

Negarra A. Kudumu is an interlocutrice working at the intersection of art and healing with a focus on contemporary art from the Pacific Northwest, Africa, South Asia, and their respective diasporas. She holds the title of Yayi Nkisi Malongo in the Brama Con Brama lineage of Palo Mayombe; she is a lay person in the Pimienta lineage of the Lukumi spiritual tradition; a practitioner of Muerterismo, Espiritismo Cruzado, Conjure, and also a level II Reiki practitioner. Her curatorial expertise includes a group exhibition for the Lisbon-based gallery MOVART for the 2021 ARCO Madrid art fair and three exhibitions during her tenure as curator at CoCA. She is currently focused on client facing work in art and healing as a coach, teacher, content producer, contemporary art curator, independent scholar, and healer.

10/19, Wednesday, Week 4: Hilma’s Ghost: Dannielle Tegeder and Sharmistha Ray

October 14, 2022 / oshas

11:30- 1:00 PM Zoom link: https://evergreen.zoom.us/j/89462123483

Hilma’s Ghost, a feminist artist collective, was co-founded by Brooklyn-based artists Dannielle Tegeder and Sharmistha Ray in 2020. The collective seeks to address existing art historical gaps by cultivating a global network of women, nonbinary, and trans practitioners whose work addresses spirituality. Hilma’s Ghost collaborated artistically on Abstract Futures Tarot exhibited at The Armory Show 2021 and has a solo exhibition, Radical Spirits up at Hill-Stead Museum until November 1. The collective has worked to create a growing online community of 6K individuals through exhibitions, curating, and online programming which connects artists with professional healers through workshops. To date, they have run a dozen such online programs on subjects ranging from automatic drawing to sigil-making.

10/5 Wednesday, Week 2: Park McArthur

October 1, 2022 / oshas

Zoom link: https://evergreen.zoom.us/j/89462123483

Park McArthur is an artist who experiments with personal and social meanings of debility, delay and dependency under the guidance and instruction of disability. Her work has been described as questioning care alongside questions of autonomy and dependency. Her sculptures and conceptually driven installations are often composed of utilitarian materials such as blocks of foam or a Wikipedia entry. “Although the social and practical dimension of making art varies from piece to piece, I am consistently interested in finding ways of understanding debility and dependency as a generative space. As such, my work often comes from personal experience but seeks to arrive (or join) a space that exceeds the individual person.

Recent solo exhibitions include Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland; Maxwell Graham / Essex Street, New York; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. In 2019 McArthur joined The Department of Art & Design at Rutgers University The State University of New Jersey as Tepper Family Endowed Chair.

https://youtu.be/E6678Nw9xz4

Lynda Mapes, Wednesday, April 20th, 11:30 – 1:00

April 10, 2022 / oshas

Zoom link: https://evergreen.zoom.us/j/87064747270

Week 4, Wednesday, April 20th , Journalist & Author, Lynda Mapes

Lynda Mapes is a newspaper reporter and author, an explorer and reveler in the natural world, native plants and species of every sort driven to go deep, look long, stay awhile. Mapes’ photos, journalism and books are the result of a lifelong fascination with the natural world and our connection to it. Mapes works from all five senses — and especially, the critical sixth: a sense of wonder.

Lauren Alyssa Bierly, Wednesday, February 9, 11:30 – 1:00

February 4, 2022 / oshas

Zoom link: https://evergreen.zoom.us/j/88216418607

Week 6, Wednesday, February 9, Lauren Alyssa Bierly is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY with over ten years experience in contemporary art, design and fashion exhibition management. Her artwork is rooted in phenomenology and informed by ecology, language and architecture. As a synaesthete, Bierly is interested in the intersection of sensory languages—like color perception, sound recognition, and time sensing—and how these sensory vocabularies shape one’s subjective experience of identity and place. She’s exhibited in New York City, Oregon, Kolkata, India and Moscow, Russia. She was artist-in-residence at Playa Art + Science (2020); chaNorth Residency (2018); Starry Night (2017); Panoply Performance Lab (2016) and Trestle Art Space (2015). She was a member of collective Incredible Witness from 2015 – 2017, and a participant of the Universityof Sussex’s ongoing synaesthesia research since 2013. In 2021, Bierly joined Brooklyn Museum as Exhibition Project Manager following prior exhibition management roles with the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. She earned a Bachelor of Architecture and minor in Art History from Pennsylvania State University (2009) and Masters of Art in Modern Art, Connoisseurship, and History of the Art Market from Christie’s Education (2010).

Patricia Vazquez Gomez, Wednesday, January 26, 11:30 – 1:00

January 19, 2022 / oshas

Zoom link: https://evergreen.zoom.us/j/88216418607

Week 4, Wednesday, January 26, Patricia Vázquez Gómez (she/her) works and lives between the ancient Tenochtitlán and the unceded and occupied lands of the Chinook, Clackamas, Multnomah and other Indigenous peoples. Her art practice investigates the social functions of art, the intersections between aesthetics, ethics and politics and the expansion of community based art practices. She uses a variety of media to carry out her research: painting, printmaking, video, exhibitions, music and socially engaged art projects. The purpose and methodologies of her work are deeply informed by her experiences working in the immigrant rights and other social justice movements. Her work has been shown at the Portland Art Museum, the Reece Museum, the Paragon Gallery, and the Houston Art League, but also in other spaces as apartments complexes, community based organizations and schools. She is the recipient of the 2013 Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize and has received support from the Ford Foundation, Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC), the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland’s Jade and Midway Districts, the Oregon Community Foundation and METRO through their Placemaking granting program. Patricia teaches at the undergraduate and graduate levels at Portland State University and the Pacific Northwest College of Arts. Patricia’s work can be explored at http://cargocollective.com/patriciavg

Chris Martin joined by Sid Ghosh on Wednesday, October 20, 11:30-1:00 PM

October 6, 2021 / oshas

Zoom link: https://evergreen.zoom.us/j/88216418607

Wednesday, October 20, Chris Martin is the author of four books of poetry, most recently, Things to Do In Hell (Coffee House Press, 2020), and the recipient of grants from the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Minnesota State Arts Board. He is the co-founder and executive director of Unrestricted Interest, an organization dedicated to helping neurodivergent learners transform their lives through writing. He lives in Minneapolis, where he professes at Hamline University and Carleton College.
He will be joined by Sid Ghosh is a nonspeaking Autistic poet with Down Syndrome. He is a rebel in pursuit of other similar souls and he is interested in rescuing poets from the quiet clutches of rhyme. One of Sid’s essays has been published in the book Leaders Around Me. Sid’s first chapbook is forthcoming from Push Press.

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