Art Lecture Series

The Evergreen State College

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Catherine Person: Wednesday, November 2, 2011 11:30-1:00 Lecture Hall 1

June 10, 2021 /

A Pacific Northwest native, Catherine Person was raised with a family
tradition of entrepreneurship. Her Russian grandfather, Max Person,
immigrated to San Francisco in 1915, and made Seattle his home a year
later. Max was a natural salesman and soon became self-employed,
running his own businesses for more than fifty years. Catherine’s
father, Dave, ran a successful real estate firm for forty years in
King County.

Catherine graduated from the Evergreen State College in 1976 and after
a five month stay working in Hawaii, moved to Seattle in 1977.
She had the good fortune of finding free-lance work in the local art
scene soon after arrival and produced a number of projects for One
Reel and The Bumbershoot Arts Festival.

In 1987, Catherine opened her art advisory firm in Seattle to support
independent artists, working with everyone from first-time buyers to
corporate curators. Clients have included Nordstrom, Microsoft,
Unisys, Boeing, Safeco, Puget Sound Energy, Olson Kundig Architects,
Swedish Medical Center and the Westin Hotel in Lincoln Square.

From September 2005 – June 2011, Catherine Person Gallery was located
in Seattle’s historic Pioneer Square, with a focus on contemporary
art by artists from Tokyo to Tasmania and from around the United
States – but who are mainly working and residing in the Pacific
Northwest. Catherine continues to place fine art in corporate and residential
collections, working from a private office and enjoying life
without the constraints of a brick and mortar business.
Catherine represented retail businesses on the Pioneer Square
Preservation Board for four years, which oversees all exterior
architectural changes to storefronts, sidewalks, parks and new
construction through a review process.

Seattle Times, May 2011 on Catherine Person Gallery:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/thearts/2014969601_person06.html

Seattle Channel 21′s Art Zone has a new program called ‘Gallery Hop’
with Nancy Guppy. The CPG interview is at:
http://www.seattlechannel.org/videos/video.asp?ID=3280703

Seth Frankel: Wednesday, October 19, 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

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Seth Frankel is the founding principal of a newly formed firm, Studio Tectonic in Boulder, Colorado. Studio Tectonic provides museum exhibition design, graphics and planning services. Seth has 18 years of experience in the design and implementation of projects ranging from small to major exhibits with budgets over 50 million dollars.

Seth’s work includes all phases of project development, including master planning, design, content development and curatorial services, multimedia creation, fabrication and construction administration. Prior to starting Studio Tectonic, Seth was the managing director of ECOS Communications, as well as an exhibit designer for the Smithsonian Institution and for Douglas|Gallagher where his work included the creation of major museum exhibitions, cultural centers and entertainment/industrial venues.

Most recently while at ECOS Communications he has completed The Washakie Museum, a 28,000 square foot institution in Worland Wyoming focusing on the archeology, paleontology and western human settlement of the Big Horn Basin. He is also nearly final in the completion of a ten acre zoological Asian elephant exhibit at the Denver Zoo.

His work has been awarded recognition from the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, the Society for Environmental Graphic Design, the National Association for Interpretation as well as been featured in popular and professional publications and numerous film festivals.

Seth holds a bachelor’s degree from The Evergreen State College with a focus on education and the environment, as well as fine arts training in furniture design at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
(Bio from http://www.studiotectonic.com)

Pablo Schugurensky: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

June 10, 2021 /

Pablo Schugurensky brings over 20 years public and private art management
experience to his leadership of META ARTE, the art consultancy he
founded in 2005. Prior to META ARTE, Pablo served as Director of Art
Collections for Vulcan, Inc., where he represented the company’s
principals in the field and managed their extensive private art
collections and their public art efforts. His corporate experience
also includes serving as Director, Microsoft Art Collection for
Microsoft Corporation, and later consulting to First & Goal Inc. in
the formation of the public art program for Qwest Field.

For five years Pablo led the Art in Public Places program for the
Washington State Arts Commission where he administered a statewide art
acquisition initiative and worked to shape public policy in support of
the arts. Early in his career as a program officer for the New York
State Council on the Arts, he led grant administration processes to
arts organizations across the state.

Pablo serves as a member of the collections committee of the Henry
Art Gallery. He has previously served as member of the Seattle Art
Museum’s collections committee and Olympic Sculpture Park advisory
committee, and as a board member of Artist Trust, the Henry Art
Gallery, the Foundation for Art Resources, and Northwest Film Forum.
He is a frequent panelist for international artist selection and
awards programs, and is fluent in English, Spanish, Italian and
Portuguese.


(Bio from http://www.metaarte.net/people.html)

Jennifer Combe: Wednesday, June 1, 2011 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

June 9, 2021 /

Jennifer Combe is an Evergreen alum, artist and teacher. She graduated from Evergreen with both a Master in Teaching with a focus on art education in 1997, and in 1995, a Bachelor of Arts focused on anti-bias education, cultural studies, and art. In 2009 she earned a Master in Fine Art from The Vermont College of Fine Arts.

“Over the past fourteen years, I’ve engaged in an art practice investigating the cultural contexts of how meaning is derived from mark making both on the canvas and in the classroom. When I began with that first class of bright-eyed five and six year olds I compartmentalized these two acts. This was partially a knee-jerk defense to protect my studio practice from the monumental heap of work that teaching in a public school has become in this time and place. But now that the first decade of mark making and the teaching of mark making have passed, I take comfort, satisfaction, and find a deep joy in these inseparable acts.”

Her visual work has been exhibited in a range of venues, including galleries, homes, state buildings, restaurants, book stores, LGBTQ festivals, and colleges in Portland, Seattle, Olympia, Montpelier, VT, Salt Lake City, and Missoula, MT.

Ellen Lesperance: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

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Female heroism is undersung, but Ellen Lesperance is determined to sing it—not only so it’s not forgotten, but with the hope that it might be catching. Go to her web site, and you immediately hear the chants of the Women’s Peace Camp at the nuclear testing site Greenham Common.

Look at her paintings, outside the elevators at Seattle Art Museum, and you see they’re dot patterns in a grid on brownish paper: patterns for sweaters that, when worn—and however soft—might transform the individual wearer. Lesperance, originally from a hippieish family in Seattle’s U District and now living in the latter-day utopic city of Portland, is both wedded to and critical of collective idealism. She knows how it can hollow out over time, and how dogma or compromise can take over. But she plainly still believes in the sheer power of individual action. How to make it happen? That’s the spur of her work.

The tone of inspiration has become pretty rare in art. It’s fairly rare in the culture at large. Radical acts may remain, but the rousing spirit of radicalism is hard to find. Lesperance’s art actually includes everything from the archival photos she starts with to the titles she writes to the pattern paintings that hang on the wall to thesweaters she wants to be worn. One of her own inspirations was visiting the Asylum for Radical Feminism in Santa Fe, which she found harrowing: The feminists were very few in number, and essentially impoverished. But they had stories to tell; that’s where she learned of Greenham Common.-Jen Graves, The Stranger

“I like the idea that, for example, through the recreation of a Greenham sweater, a new ‘wearer’ might be beckoned. I also have a particular interest in assigning valor to young women from the Pacific Northwest like Rachel Corrie and Beth Horehound O’Brien, women who have sacrificed their lives fighting the good fight.”

Vic Haven: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

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Victoria Haven lives and works in Seattle. She received her BFA from the University of Washington and her MFA from Goldsmiths College/University of London. She was the 2004 recipient of ‘The Stranger’ Genius Award as well as the Betty Bowen Memorial Award from the Seattle Art Museum. She also received a Pollock-Krasner Award in 1996 and in 2000. Her work has been exhibited at the Frye Art Museum and Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle; PDX Contemporary Art, Portland; the Austen Museum of Art, Texas; the Drawing Center, New York; and RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, among many others.

“I always think that abstraction is slipping away, that people just aren’t looking…Abstraction, to me, is that fuzzy place, that place between things, where a lot of conflict happens, where a lot of connection happens. Just looking at that building over there and going, okay, this line is in front of that one, but what if it weren’t? Those are really basic observations, but I would like to believe that they could help you open yourself up to ways of thinking that are not so black and white.”-The Stranger

Thom Andersen: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 11:30-1:00, Recital Hall

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Thom Andersen has lived in Los Angeles for most of his life. In the 1960s, he made short films, including Melting (1965), Olivia’s Place (1966), and — ——- (1967, with Malcolm Brodwick). In 1974 he completed Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer, an hour-long documentation of Muybridge’s photographic work. In 1995, with Noël Burch, he completed Red Hollywood, a videotape about the filmwork created by the victims of the Hollywood Blacklist. Their work on the history of the Blacklist also produced a book, Les Communistes de Hollywood: Autre chose que des martyrs, published in 1994. In 2003 he completed Los Angeles Plays Itself, a videotape about the representation of Los Angeles in movies. It won the National Film Board of Canada Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 2003 Vancouver International Film Festival, and it was voted best documentary of 2004 in the Village Voice Film Critics’ Poll. He has taught film composition at the California Institute of the Arts since 1987.Andersen is also one of the preeminent film educators in the United States, teaching at Cal Arts in Los Angeles where he has lived for most of his life. However his own films are largely unknown except for his 2003 award-winning portrait of Los Angeles, Los Angeles Plays Itself, voted best documentary of 2004 in the Village Voice Film Critics’ Poll.

Carolina Silva: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 12:15-1:30, Lecture Hall 1

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Carolina Silva (b. 1975, Madrid, Spain) lives and works in Seattle. She uses installation, drawing, animation and film to contemplate the body and the passage of time through both figurative and abstract work. Her last show at Lawrimore Project entitled, Against Gravity, was part of a series of shows called Has Art? where each month, artists are paired with a writer and a page from Stéphane Mallarmé’s Un Coup de Dés.

Carolina has had one-person shows in 2010: Galeria Travesia Cuatro, Madrid; La Conservera Center for Contemporary Art, Murcia, Spain (with Lili Duourie, Elena del Rivero, and Lily van der Stokker), (catalog); 2007: La Casa Encendida, Madrid. 2006: Galería Travesía Cuatro, Madrid; Art Space Tetra, Fukoa, Japan. 2004: Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco. 2003: Fish Tank Gallery, New York. 2002: Next Gallery, New York. Her work has also been seen in 2009: Explum, Puerto Lumbrera; Becas Generación 2008, Madrid; Doméstico09, Madrid, 2009. 2008: IVAM, Valencia; Museo de Pollença; Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca. 2007: Planes Futuros. Baluarte, Pamplona; Aquí y Ahora, Sala Alcalá 31, Madrid; Destino Futuro, Jardín Botánico, Madrid. 2004: The Line Up. Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco.

Deborah Stratman: Wednesday, February 9, 2011 12:15-1:30, Lecture Hall 1.

June 9, 2021 /

Deborah Stratman is a Chicago-based artist and filmmaker interested in landscapes and systems. Her films, rather than telling stories, pose a series of problems – and through their at times ambiguous nature, allow for a complicated reading of the questions being asked. She has exhibited internationally at venues including the Whitney Biennial, MoMA, the Pompidou, Hammer Museum and many international film festivals including Sundance, the Viennale, Ann Arbor and Rotterdam. She is the recipient of Fulbright and Guggenheim fellowships and she currently teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Free to the public.

A free screening of “O’er the Land” will be held on Tuesday, February 8th at 8pm at the Northern in downtown Olympia. 

http://www.northernolympia.org/2011/01

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