Art Lecture Series

The Evergreen State College

Category: Arts Lecture 2021/22

September 29, 2022 /

 

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).

 

Week 8, Wednesday, February 23: Karina Aguilera Skvirsky

“In the late 1970s I lived in Guayaquil (Ecuador), the city where my mother was born. The contrast between my memories and experiences in Ecuador with my life in the US has been central to my practice, which uses personal narratives as a gateway to explore broader questions of place, identity and nationhood.”- Karina

Karina Aguilera Skvirsky (b.Providence, RI) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice began in photography and grew into video and performance. In 2019, she received a grant from Creative Capital to produce How to build a wall and other ruins, a project that includes a series of sculptural photographs, a multi-channel video installation and live performances. She has exhibited the project in solo exhibitions at Museo Amparo in Puebla, Mexico and Ponce + Robles Gallery in Madrid, Spain. Other important international exhibitions include her participation in Impermanence, the XIII Cuenca Biennial (Ecuador) curated by Dan Cameron in 2016 and There is always a cup of sea for man to sail, the 29th São Paulo Biennial in Brazil (2010).

 

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

April 10, 2022 /

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.

Daniel Harm, Wednesday, April 6th, 11:30-1:00

April 1, 2022 /

Director/Creator Daniel Harm explores a reality where humans use innovation, collaboration, and imagination to exist symbiotically with ourselves, with Nature, & with the living creatures who call Planet Earth their home.

Over the last twenty years, Daniel Harm accumulated their unique skill set from their experience as a professional athlete, as an evocative filmmaker and photographer, as a wilderness explorer, & as a patron supported artisan stoneworker who spent years working alone in the mountains.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Karina Aguilera Skvirsky, Wednesday, February 23, 11:30-1:00

February 10, 2022 /

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

 

Week 8, Wednesday, February 23, Karina Aguilera Skvirsky

“In the late 1970s, I lived in Guayaquil, Ecuador, the city where my mother was born. The contrast between my memories and experiences in Ecuador with my life in the US has been central to my practice, which uses personal narratives as a gateway to explore broader questions of place, identity and nationhood.”

Karina Aguilera Skvirsky lives in New York City and works between New York and Ecuador. She is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice began in photography and grew into video and performance. In 2019, she received a grant from Creative Capital to produce “How to build a wall and other ruins”, a multichannel video installation and live performances. The multichannel video premiered at the Cuenca Biennial XV (2021) curated by Blanca de la Torre in Cuenca, Ecuador. Recent solo exhibitions include: Sacred Geometry at Museo Amparo in Puebla, Mexico and Ponce + Robles Gallery in Madrid, Spain. Other important international exhibitions include her participation in Africamericanos at Centro de la imagen in CDMX (2019) and There is always a cup of sea for man to sail, the 29th São Paulo Biennial in Brazil (2010). Skvirsky is an Associate Professor at Lafayette College.

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

February 4, 2022 /

                            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 /

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

BeAnotherLab on Wednesday, January 12, 11:30-1:00 PM

December 12, 2021 /

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

Week 2, Wednesday, January 12: BeAnotherLab, is an international, interdisciplinary art-science research laboratory dedicated to exploring the relationship between identity and empathy. They develop immersive technology systems to generate new modes of storytelling and to experiment with the perception of self and other. BeAnotherLab works at the intersection of art, science and technology. They question the hierarchies between these different ways of knowing and approach them as complementary, overlapping bodies of knowledge.

Nancy Hwang on Wednesday, November 17, 11:30-1:00 PM

November 8, 2021 /

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

Wednesday, November 17, Nancy Hwang, Born in Seoul and based in New York, Nancy Hwang has been producing audience-participatory projects spanning more than two decades in North America, Europe, and Asia. Always possessing a sense of open-endedness, chance, and spontaneity, her practice involves making connections and building relationships. Hwang’s solo projects have been hosted by Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City; Project Space Sarubia, Seoul; and White Columns, New York. Her projects have been included in group exhibitions at apexart, Artists Space, El Museo del Barrio, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, The Kitchen, Museum of the City of New York, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, SculptureCenter and more! She has realized projects in the public realm with the support of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York City Parks & Recreation and Storefront for Art & Architecture. Hwang’s ongoing project Somewhere in America invites proposals for traveling with her within the US.

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

October 6, 2021 /

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. 

James Spooner on Wednesday, October 6th, 2021 from 11:30-1PM

September 29, 2021 /

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

Evergreen Library is proud to have the streaming rights to the AfroPunk documentary in the catalog

Wednesday, October 6  James Spooner, director of the award winning documentary, Afro-Punk (2003), author of the graphic novel, The High Desert and currently co-editing a multi-genre, visual literary anthology that collectively describes punk today. James Spooner is a tattoo artist, illustrator, and filmmaker. He directed the films White Lies, Black Sheep and the seminal documentary AFRO-PUNK. Both films premiered at national and international film festivals, including Toronto International and The American Black Film Festival, and garnered various awards.  James is also the co-founder of the Afropunk Festival, which currently boasts audiences in the hundreds of thousands around the world.

This lecture is the first of the fall 2021 series. Below belong to previous academic years.

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