When:
January 28, 2026 @ 11:30 am – 1:00 pm
2026-01-28T11:30:00-08:00
2026-01-28T13:00:00-08:00
Winter Week 4 Art Lecture
When: 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. on Wednesday, January 28
Where: In-person in the Comm Building Recital Hall and livestreamed via Zoom webinar
Zoom Webinar Link: https://evergreen.zoom.us/j/81559331559
The Art Lecture Series presents a broad range of interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary art issues by artists, writers, activists, and scholars. The ongoing aim is to feature an array of practices from a variety of fields, areas of inquiry, and creative production, by people active outside the world of our campus (and sometimes within). The series provides a lively forum for the exchange of ideas between the speakers, students, faculty, staff, and the public.
Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes (In Person)
Maikoiyo Anabi Alley-Barnes (b. 1977, Seattle) is a multimedia artist, curator, filmmaker, writer, and designer exploring the resonance of genetic cultural memory through the mundane and the mystical. Alley-Barnes’ practice offers meditative narratives that reflect his fascination with, admiration for, and immersion in the aesthetic, ritual and continuum that is the Black Metaphysical. Be it through his headdress and mask work, PELTS, or unique brand of sculpture called refuse alchemy, Alley-Barnes’ practice brings a more visceral, lush, and sensual sensibility to our day-to-day lives.
Alley-Barnes has exhibited in the United States and internationally. In August of 2023, he unveiled his first large scale public art installation titled “Sent, Scent, Sense”. This work is the result of a photograph of one of the artist’s sculptures printed on vellum and layered onto a hand-drawn Kente cloth-coded pattern. The final work is realized as a digitized, large-scale print applied to the steel surface of a vehicle door located at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle.
Alley-Barnes has been invited to speak in the United States, Canada, and Europe where he engages in multidisciplinary, critical discourse about art historical scholarship, his own practice, and contemporary art. Alley-Barnes is a founding member of the multidisciplinary creative collective
Black Constellation. He lives and works between Seattle, WA and Los Angeles, CA.
