Art Lecture Series

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11/16 Wednesday, Week 8: Elisabeth Houston

November 2, 2022 /

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 /

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 /

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 /

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

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).

 

Week 8 is Evergreen’s own, Miranda Mellis! on Wednesday, May 19th, 2021 from 11:30-1PM

June 15, 2021 /

Miranda Mellis is the author of Demystifications (Solid Objects, 2021); The Instead, a book-length dialogue with Emily Abendroth (Carville Annex, 2016); The Quarry (Trafficker Press, 2013); The Spokes (Solid Objects, 2012); None of This Is Real (Sidebrow Press, 2012); Materialisms (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2009); and The Revisionist (Calamari Press, 2007).

Her stories and essays have appeared in various publications including Harper’s, The Believer, Conjunctions, The New York Times, The Kenyon Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, McSweeney’s and elsewhere. She is a regular contributor to The Believer. She has received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant and the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction and has been an Artist in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts and Millay Colony. She was a co-founding editor of The Encyclopedia Project with Tisa Bryant and Kate Schatz and currently teaches at The Evergreen State College.

Zoom link – : https://evergreen.zoom.us/j/87035309883

Week 6: Cassie Thornton, Wednesday, May 5th 2021, 11:30-1pm PDT via Zoom link to follow

June 15, 2021 /

Cassie Thornton is an artist and activist from the US, who makes a “safe space” for the unknown, for disobedience and for unanticipated collectivity. She currently lives and works in Thunder Bay, Canada. She refers to herself as a feminist economist, a title that frames her work as that of a social scientist actively preparing for the economics of a future society that produces health and life without the tools that reproduce oppression— like money, police or prisons. She is currently the co-director of the Re-Imagining Value Action Lab in Thunder Bay, an art and social centre at Lakehead University in Ontario, Canada. Her new book The Hologram: Feminist, Peer-to-Peer Health for a Post-Pandemic Future is available from Pluto Press.

Week 4: José Gómez Farmworker Justice Day on Wednesday, 4/21/21 from 11:30-1pm

June 15, 2021 /

Celebrating Farmworker Justice Day!  Hear voices from WA farm worker movement: Essential Workers Organizing in the Pandemic!

Zoom Link – https://evergreen.zoom.us/j/85922813593

Learn about farmworkers response to COVID19 and wildfire danger using multigenerational movement organizing as an “ecosystem.”

On Zoom with the Arts Lecture Series at The Evergreen State College
April 21, 2021 11:30 am – 1:30 pm

Join us!  Zoom link – https://evergreen.zoom.us/j/85922813593

Presenters :

Community to Community Development
Familias Unidas Para La Justicia
Trabajadores Unidos Por la Justicia

Sponsored by:

Academics Programs
The President’s Equity Fund
MES
CCBLA
Climate Justice and Resilience Speaker Series

Week 2: Tongo Eisen-Martin, San Francisco’s Poet Laureate on April 7th, 2021 from 11:30-1pm via Zoom https://evergreen.zoom.us/j/84485514845

June 15, 2021 /

Originally from San Francisco, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a poet, movement worker, and educator. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people, We Charge Genocide Again, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. His book titled, “Someone’s Dead Already” was nominated for a California Book Award. His latest book “Heaven Is All Goodbyes” was published by the City Lights Pocket Poets series, was shortlisted for the Griffins Poetry Prize and won a California Book Award and an American Book Award. His forthcoming book “Blood On The Fog” is being released this fall in the City Lights Pocket Poets series. He is San Francisco’s eighth poet laureate.

Zoom link –  https://evergreen.zoom.us/j/84485514845

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