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

June 15, 2021 / Steve

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 Itself, Less 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.

Week 8, Evergreen’s own Bob Leverich! Wednesday, February 28th, 2018, 11:30-1:00PM, in the Recital Hall, COM Building

June 15, 2021 / Steve

Bob Leverich is an architect, sculptor, and craftsman, and a faculty member at The Evergreen State College, where he teaches visual art, craft, and sustainable design. He has building projects, sculpture, and furniture works in public and private collections across the country and in Canada. His architectural experience includes commercial, public, residential, and religious projects, as well as preservation of historic structures.

His sculpture and craft works have addressed expressive and functional themes in a variety of materials. His recent sculpture has focused on carved stone and wood, using iconic landscape and body forms, and includes large, site specific, multi-part public art works in Maine and Washington State. Bob regards drawing as a foundational tool in his working process, and he sees architecture, sculpture, and craft as connected by their substantiality and character as kinesthetic experiences, both in making and in use. Meaning gained through making is fundamental to his work and to his teaching.

Alexis Pauline Gumbs: February 15th, 2017 from 11:30-1:00 pm in Purce Hall 1

June 15, 2021 / Steve

Alexis Pauline Gumbs, multi-disciplinary artist, scholar, activist and this year’s Evan’s Chair at The Evergreen State College. As an educator, Alexis Pauline Gumbs walks in the legacy of black lady school teachers in post-slavery communities who offered sacred educational space to the intergenerational newly free in exchange for the random necessities of life. She honors the lives and creative works of Black feminist geniuses as sacred texts for all people. She believes that in the time we live in access to the intersectional, holistic brilliance of the black feminist tradition is as crucial as learning how to read. She brings that approach to her work as the provost of the Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind, a transmedia- enabled community school (aka tiny black feminist university) and lending library based in Durham, North Carolina.

A queer black troublemaker, a black feminist love evangelist and a prayer poet priestess, Alexis has a PhD in English, African and African-American Studies, and Women and Gender Studies from Duke University. She was the first scholar to research the Audre Lorde Papers at Spelman College, the June Jordan Papers at Harvard University, and the Lucille Clifton Papers at Emory University during her dissertation research.

Emily Adams: Wednesday, October 5th, 2016, 11:30-1:00 pm in the 2nd floor Recital Hall of the COM Building

June 15, 2021 / Steve

Emily L. R. Adams is an installation artist living in Olympia, WA. Her work often combines arrangements of altered found objects, with large-scale photo based screen prints. Her work examines issues of femininity, counter-culture, and war in a syntax that brings a quieting awareness through the power of the multiple.

Adams earned her BFA from the Columbus College of Art & Design (2005), and her MFA from the University of Wisconsin (2015). She is a recipient of the David and Edith Sinaiko Woman in the Arts Award, and her work has been featured in New American Painting Magazine. Adams has a breadth of printmaking experience; having worked with artists and master printers at the highly respected Pace Editions and Tandem Press.

Adams currently works at The Evergreen State College as the printmaking technician, and adjunct faculty, teaching evening classes in printmaking and drawing.

Julia Heineccius: Wednesday, March 9, 11:30-1:00 pm in the 2nd floor Recital Hall in the COM Building

June 14, 2021 / Steve

Julia Heineccius studied art and medical history at the University of Washington, and graduated in 2012 with an MFA in Metalsmithing from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She has worked as an artisan and artist assistant, curator and teacher. Her own work has been in recent exhibitions at SOIL Gallery in Seattle, and in a bowling alley in Munich. Julia is currently teaching 3D metals in Thinking Through Craft at Evergreen.

Honoring Evergreen’s Steve Davis: Wednesday, February 10th, 11:30-1:00 pm in the 2nd floor Recital Hall in the COM Building

June 14, 2021 / Steve

Steve Davis is a documentary portrait and landscape photographer based in the Pacific Northwest. His work has appeared in American Photo, Harper’s, the New York Times Magazine, Russian Esquire, and is in many collections, including the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Seattle Art Museum, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the George Eastman House. He is a former 1st place recipient of the Santa Fe CENTER Project Competition, and two time winner of Washington Arts Commission/Artist Trust Fellowships. Davis is the Coordinator of Photography, media curator and adjunct faculty member of The Evergreen State College. He is represented by the James Harris Gallery, Seattle.

Amjad Faur: Wednesday, May 27th, 2015, 11:30-1:00 pm in Lecture Hall 1

June 14, 2021 / Steve

Amjad Faur currently teaches photography and visual arts at The Evergreen State College, in Olympia, Washington. He came to Evergreen from the University of Arkansas, where he primarily taught art history and critical theory. His current research involves the overlapping visual languages of colonial Europe in the Middle East and the tropes/signifiers scattered throughout Western art history that harmonize with these expansionist tendencies.

Steven Hendricks: Wednesday, May 20th, 2015, 11:30-1:00 pm in Lecture Hall 1

June 14, 2021 / Steve

Steven Hendricks was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He moved out west to attend Evergreen. He completed his MFA in Writing at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and then returned to Washington to teach at Evergreen. Hendricks’s work has appeared in The Denver Quarterly, Web Conjunctions, Fold: The Reader, The Encyclopedia Project (Vol. 2), Sidebrow, and at XCP (archived at PennSound, 2005). Hendricks is also a practicing bookbinder and letterpress printer. His artists’ book work, Breathing Machine, appears in Lark Books’ anthology 500 Handmade Books: Inspiring Interpretations of a Timeless Form. He has shown artist book works in galleries in Olympia, Portland, and Seattle. His first novel, Little is Left to Tell, was published by Starcherone Books in the Fall of 2014.

Alex Swiftwater McCarty: Wednesday, January 14th, 2015, 11:30-1:00 pm in Lecture Hall 1

June 14, 2021 / Steve

Makah artist, Alex McCarty, is the great-grandson of Hishka, who was chief of the Waatch village, one of the five villages in Neah Bay, Washington. Alex is a carver, painter, printmaker and teacher. Alex earned his Bachelor in Visual Arts and Social Studies from The Evergreen State College in 2000. In 2002, he obtained his Master in Teaching degree from The Evergreen State College. Following his Masters, he was the Art/Carving Teacher at Chief Leschi Schools in Puyallup, Washington for several years.

Alex is currently teaching woodcarving in a full year program at Evergreen titled “Studio Projects: Tradition and Innovation.” His work is being showcased in the library; his carvings and prints, and other traditional style art pieces can be found in display cases within the library. Photographs of McCarty and his students by Briana Martini can be found on the staircase leading up to the 3rd floor of the library.

Alex is a young carver with great respect for older carving traditions. His interest in Makah carving traditions and culture was triggered in high school, when he was asked to work on a diorama of the Ozette Village for the Makah Museum. Working on the project over a nine-month period, Alex had a chance to look deeply into the past. Part of his preparation for making the miniature model was to visit the landforms at the site, and to become familiar with the collection of artifacts housed at the museum. It was Alex’s job to understand everything he could about everyday life at the village, and this helped to create his passion for history.

Through carving, Alex seeks to preserve cultural traditions that he can trace back through time. By observing the pieces from Ozette, as well as other classic West Coast carvings, he discerns “prevalent form-lines,” which characterize the Makah tradition. He works hard at understanding the essence of his heritage, and sees his own work as a preservation and interpretation of this older style. Alex is driven to understand the past in his quest to develop his carving. He observes that “you need to ‘get’ something before you can preserve it.”
Throughout his work, Alex strives to incorporate flowing, bold-line designs that he feels are so characteristic of classic West Coast artwork. It is important to him that his work is done well, and that his designs work from different perspectives. As a teacher, he makes the analogy that we need “to see things through multiple perspectives-the way that other people see things” in order to gain a deeper understanding of the world.

While Alex’s work is in demand, often commissioned by galleries or individual collectors, he sees his work as providing more in his life than just income. He values teaching and learning from other artists, and advises people to seek out learning opportunities such as the one he had at Ozette, which he sees as an under-utilized resource. Perhaps his approach to his carving tradition can be summarized in this way: “learn it with care, preserve it with beauty, and pass it on.”

Aisha Harrison: Wednesday, May 7 11:30-1pm in Lecture Hall 1

June 14, 2021 / Steve

Aisha Harrison is interested in the experience of power and privilege derived from an individual’s race, and class, and gender identities. She works with brown bare clay and salt to create figures that get at the emotional impacts of privilege. Aisha has a studio in Olympia, Washington and is a member of the faculty at The Evergreen State College. She received a BA from Grinnell College, a BFA from Washington State University, and an MFA from University of Nebraska- Lincoln. She has been a recipient of numerous fellowships and awards from institutions around the country and her work is shown nationally.