February 6, 2014, 12:00pm, Osher Hall Multi-disciplinary artist Jenna Crowder '07 sponsored by Artists at Work
Visual artist and designer Jenna Crowder has attended a number of residencies and has lived and worked internationally. Her work includes Public Space: Cairo, a collaborative workshop-based project for engaging with art and design in public spaces, which took place in downtown Cairo, Egypt; design work for 826, a national youth literacy organization launched by Dave Eggers; and design work for clothing designer Jon Wye in Washington, D.C. At this lecture she and writer Douglas W. Milliken will discuss the collaborative process and influences behind a series of recent performative installations.
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Friday, February 7, 2014, 7:00pm, ICA at MECA | Photographer Bryan Graf sponsored by the ICA at MECA
Bryan discusses work featured in Bryan Graf: Across the Interior, an exhibit that runs January 22 through April 6, 2014 at the ICA at MECA. His inventive and playful photography turns the prosaic New Jersey landscape into a canvas for darkroom experimentation and mystic revelation. Created in part by sandwiching B/W negatives with exposed, or partially fogged color film, the images channel the landscape’s hidden ghosts to hallucinatory effect.
So Percussion:
"Where (we) Live"
Thursday, March 13, 2014 at 7:30 pm
Performing in conjunction with Bryan Graf’s exhibit, So Percussion has been praised by The New Yorker for their “exhilarating blend of precision and anarchy, rigor and bedlam,” redefining the modern percussion ensemble as a flexible, omnivorous entity, pushing its voice to the forefront of American musical culture. Part experimental music gig, part multimedia rock show, part happening, Where (we) Live is a freeform investigation of the places and spaces we call home.
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February 13, 2014, 12:00pm, Osher Hall | Multi-disciplinary eco-artist Tim Gaudreau MFA ‘02 sponsored by Public Engagement
Eco-artist Tim Gaudreau is passionate about the environment and the interconnections between people and nature. His work combines humor and irony with photography, video, new media, graphics, and sculpture to create collaborations that advocate for a greater awareness of eco-issues, initiating dialogue about social and environmental issues and serving as an entryway to improve our relationships with nature. Numerous awards, fellowships, and commissions have given him the opportunity to create public art projects that stimulate collaboration and interaction while challenging conventional thinking. He has participated in residencies ranging from California to India.
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February 20, 2014, 12:00pm, Osher Hall | Ceramic artist Susan Dewsnap sponsored by the Ceramics Department
Susan Dewsnap’s ceramic studies began at a community clay studio in Boulder, Colorado and matured through intensive summer workshops at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine and Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina. She earned her MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she taught from 2008 through 2012, and is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. She has exhibited her ceramic work internationally and has received awards from the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts Biennial, the World Ceramic Biennale Korea International Competition, and the Strictly Functional Pottery National Exhibition.
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March 6, 2014, 5:45pm, Osher Hall | Tricia Flanagan
A former fashion and costume designer, Tricia Flanagan has been a practicing artist since 1996. Since earning a Master of Arts in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies from Bauhaus University in WEimar, Germany, her practice has focused on working in the public sphere, including site-specific sculpture, social sculpture, sounds sculpture, sculptural installation, wearables, and performance installation. Artwork is often created on location or developed in workshops. She currently runs the Wearables Lab at the Academy of Visual Art HKBU and lives and works in Hong Kong. For her project “Transit Textiles,” she engaged eight artists from various disciplines and backgrounds, mapped their movements throughout the city of Hong Kong, and created wearable textile maps, stiching their networks of movement into the cloth.
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March 6, 2014, 12:00pm , Osher Hall | Multi-disciplinary artist Reenie Charriere MFA ’09 sponsored by Artists at Work
Reenie Charriere’s installations, drawings and photographs evolve from a practice triggered by expeditions along everyday paths. Her current work includes photographic documentation followed by spotlighting the situation through fabricated sculptural installations created out of discarded packaging materials -- particularly plastic, fabric, paper, and cardboard. By sewing, cutting, fusing, reshaping, dangling, and weaving, she transforms the material into atmospheric and surprisingly organic-like structures. Her choice of materials reflects a collision of clumsiness and grace and questions how consumerism drives the world. She was recently awarded a residency by SF MOMA in San Francisco and has been awarded full fellowships by La Napoule Foundation in France and Can Serrat in Spain.