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Art Lecture Series, week 6: Anne de Marcken from 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Wednesday, 11/4 2020

Anne de Marcken, former Greener! is a writer and interdisciplinary artist. Her credits include durational writing projects, hybrid narratives, short and feature-length films and site-specific installations. She approaches creative work as a process of critical inquiry, centering questions of impermanence, invisibility and the abject. She is author of the lyric novella The Accident: An Account (Spuyten Duyvil, 2020), and her writing has appeared in Best New American VoicesPloughsharesNarrativeEntropy, on NPR’s Selected Shorts and elsewhere. Recent process-based installations include Hinterlands of Paris (2020), Paris Chopped & Screwed (2019), Invisible Ink: Homeless (2018), Invisible Ink: Reparations (2017) and The Redaction Project (2016). She is also known for the gender-queer experimental feature Group (2002). Anne is editor and publisher of The 3rd Thing, an independent press dedicated to intersectional, interdisciplinary work. You can see more about  The 3rd Thing at https://the3rdthing.press.

Note: Anna Joy Springer will be rescheduled TBA

Anna Joy Springer is the author of “The Vicious Red Relic, Love” (Jaded Ibis, 2011), an illustrated fabulist memoir with soundscape by Rachel Carns and Tara Jane O’neil “Your Metaforest Guidebook”, as well as “The Birdwisher, A Murder Mystery for Very Old Young Adults” (Birds of Lace, 2009). Her work appears in zines, journals, anthologies, and recordings. An Associate Professor of Literature at UC San Diego, Springer teaches experimental writing, feminist literature & graphic texts and also leads public meditation groups focusing on sensation, emotion, and imagination. She’s performed in punk and queercore bands Blatz, The Gr’ups, and Cypher in the Snow and toured the U.S. with the writers of Sister Spit.

Week 8: Former Greener! Carol Rashawnna Williams, Wednesday, November 20th, 2019, 11:30-1pm in the Recital Hall of the COM Building

Born in Topeka, Kansas in a military family, Carol Rashawnna Williams is the only child of Bessie Williams & Willie C. Williams. Soon after birth Carol and her family moved to Frankfurt Germany where she grew up on a military base and went to German schools until she was 11 ½. At which time she and her mother settled in Tacoma, WA. Carol graduated from Mount Tahoma High School, went to the Evergreen State College, was an Upward Bound student of 4 years.

Carol’s mother was a certified missionary and gave her life to community service for over 25 years, feeding and sheltering those who were homeless. or re-entering society from prison. Carol’s father was a patriot and believed in American Democracy. He gave 28 years of his life to his country through military service.

After graduating from college Carol was accepted as a Vista-Americorps for 1 year in Seattle’s White Center neighborhood working with young single mothers of Head Start students get jobs and get into school. Carol had her first group exhibit at the Seattle Central Community College Gallery in 1990 when she attended Seattle Central College, it was a community college.  Her second group exhibit was in 1996 at the Evergreen State College at which time her work was acquired and catalogued into The Evergreen State College’s (TESC) video art library and showcased into the TESC student anthology book.

Carol is a mother to 2 children. She currently resides in Seattle, WA and works to mentor emerging artists from various backgrounds.  Carol is a musician of 21 years who plays the violin and the viola. Carol enjoys hiking in the Pacific Northwest’s numerous old growth forests. Carol was certified thru the City of Seattle Parks & Recreation Urban Forest Educator Program and loves to teach about conifers, indigenous and invasive species.  You can find her walking all over Seattle.

Carol deeply believes in the power of art to build community, bridge community relationships and create authentic space for healing.

Week 6: Former Greener! PLATO guest lecturer! Austen Brown, Wednesday, November 6th, 11:30-1pm in the Recital Hall of the COM

Austen Brown is an artist living in Chicago, IL, holding his Master of Fine Arts from the School at the Art Institute of Chicago, where he is a Lecturer in the Sound Department. Using a site-based practice, he works with sound, video, and installation to draw conceptual lines between sites, using buildings as evidence to investigate histories of urban planning.
His work has been shown internationally at Super-Sensor, Madrid, Spain; The Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL; The Mission, Chicago, IL; EXPO Chicago, IL; Switched on Garden with funding from the Pew Charitable Trust, Philadelphia, PA; Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE; Rebekah Templeton Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, among others.

Week 8 – Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, former Greener ! Wednesday, May 23rd 2018, 11:30-1:00pm in the Recital Hall, COM Building

Molly Zuckerman-Hartung is a painter, writer and teacher who grew up in Olympia, Washington (attended TESC), and participated in Riot Grrl in her formative years (the 1990s.) Now she is working and grocery shopping and taking walks in Connecticut with her girlfriend and dog. She is an autodidact who is opening her attention to pattern and repetition, difference, learning, feedback loops, nostalgia, dolls, Victorian collage and textiles, John Coltrane and Miles Davis, Gees Bend quilts, the effects of soul lag on humans, high theory, low theory, kitsch, Modernism, affect theory, coloring crayons, tissue paper, the parergon, tactility, Elizabeth Bishop, the color of the light in the bare woods, and the emotional landscapes of students, friends, colleagues and strangers alongside whom she lives.

Also, she is a full time Lecturer in Yale School of Art, Department of Painting and Printmaking. She has shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, The 2014 Whitney Biennial, The Program at ReMap in Athens, Greece, Kadel Willborn in Karlsruhe, Germany and many many others. In 2013, she received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award. She is a frequent guest lecturer at many schools across the country, including, in the past year, Princeton University, The University of Texas at Austin, University of Indiana at Bloomington, University of Alabama, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Low Residency Program, and Columbia University, She is represented by Corbett vs Dempsey in Chicago and Rachel Uffner Gallery in NYC.

Week 6 Fionn Meade, former Greener! Wednesday, May 9th 2018, 11:30-1:00pm in the Recital Hall, COM Building

An independent curator based in New York and Seattle, Meade has served as Artistic Director (2015-17) and Senior Curator, Cross-Disciplinary Platforms (2014-15), at The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, where he headed the Visual Arts Department. He has been a faculty member at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (2009-2014), and in the MFA Program for Visual Arts, Columbia University (2009-2014).

Exhibitions at the Walker Art Center included the retrospective survey Merce Cunningham: Common Time, curated for the Walker and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, group exhibitions Question the Wall ItselfLess Than One, the first U.S. solo exhibition of German artist Andrea Büttner and the Walker Art Center’s presentation of Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, featuring work from the 1960s to the present.

He also oversaw commissions of public artworks for the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden and Walker campus by Theaster Gates, Nairy Baghramian, and Philippe Parreno. He has previously been a curator at the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, and at SculptureCenter, New York, where exhibitions included Scene, Hold, Ballast with David Maljkovic and Lucy Skaer, and the group exhibitions Time Again and Knight’s Move, a survey of new sculpture in New York, among others.

He served as Director of Grant Programs at Artist Trust, Seattle (2003-2006), as a writing instructor and consultant for Richard Hugo House, Seattle (2001-06), and as a lecturer at the University of Washington. The recipient of an Arts Writer Grant from Creative Capital (2009) and the Andy Warhol Foundation Curatorial Fellowship (Fall 2014), he holds a M.F.A. in Poetry from Columbia University (1999) and an M.A. in Curatorial Studies from CCS Bard (2009), and received his B.F.A from Evergreen State College.

Tom Anderson: Wednesday, November 9, 2011 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

Tom Anderson was born in 1951 in Salt Lake City, Utah, the son of a
Jazz musician.
He attended Clark College in Vancouver, WA, and received and Associate
of Arts degree in 1971.
In the autumn of 1971, he enrolled in the Evergreen State College in
Olympia, WA. There he studied Asian Art and Philosophy with Jose
Arguelles; developed the 16mm Animation facilities; helped to
establish the FM Radio station KAOS; co-created the four-story library
mural; and worked as an assistant graphic designer, developing the
College’s catalogs and visual identities. He graduated in 1973 with a
Bachelor of Arts degree.
In 1973, he co-founded Mansion Glass Studios in Olympia, WA. This
collaboration won recognition locally and nationally for their design
and fabrication of Architectural Art Glass commissions.
Anderson first attended the Pilchuck Glass School in 1986, as a
teaching assistant to Henry Halem. He was back at the Pilchuck School
in 1987, on a scholarship with Susan Stinsmuhlen-Amend, and again in
1988 and 1989 as a teaching assistant in the advanced graduate
program, specializing in glass casting and enamel kiln firing.
In 1990, Anderson established his own studio in Olympia, WA. There he
pursued his expanding interest in painting, metal fabrication, mixed
media construction and printmaking.
Represented by galleries in Oregon and Washington he exhibits
regularly and his work can be found in over 1400 public and private
collections including the Washington State Arts Commission, Oregon
State Arts Commission and The City Of Olympia.
(Bio from www.thomasandersonart.com)

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

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

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

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.

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