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November 2021
Robyn O’Neil Virtual Artist Talk
The Fine Arts Department presents an artist lecture with Robyn O’Neil, supported by the Forst Endowed Visiting Artist Program. O’Neil is known for her large-scale graphite on paper drawings. She also hosts the weekly podcast “ME READING STUFF.” Originally from Omaha, NE, O’Neil currently lives in Washington State. Robyn O’Neil’s work was included in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, an Artadia grant, and the Hunting Prize. O’Neil has had several…
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Donté K. Hayes Virtual Artist Talk
Donté K. Hayes's research has been focused on the tradition of the pineapple as a symbol for hospitality, rooted in slavery and agricultural colonization of South America, the Caribbean, and the Southern United States. Hayes's art practice also pulls from an interest in hip-hop culture, history, and science fiction. For Hayes, ceramics becomes a bridge to conceptually integrate disparate objects and or images for the purpose of creating new understandings and connections with the material, history, and social-political issues. The…
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Cannupa Hanska Luger Virtual Artist Talk
Cannupa Hanska Luger is a New Mexico based multidisciplinary artist who uses social collaboration in response to timely and site-specific issues. Raised on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, he is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold and is of Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota and European descent. Luger produces multi-pronged projects that take many forms—through monumental installations that incorporate ceramics, video, sound, fiber, steel, new media, technology and repurposed materials, Luger interweaves performance and…
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Anthony White Virtual Artist Talk
Anthony White is an artist and curator in Seattle, Washington, where he is currently represented by Greg Kucera Gallery. He is a 2018 alumnus of Cornish College of the Arts, the first in his family to complete four years of professional training. White’s work is meticulously spun from common PLA plastic resulting in representations of manipulated and glamorized portraits, consumerism, and brash, instagram-style images as viewed through the lens of a cell-phone. He is a 2020 Neddy Award finalist and…
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Yoonhee Choi Artist Talk
Educated as a city planner, an architect, and an artist, Yoonhee Choi creates work that explores the potentials of unexpected materials to express both multiple scales of spatial experience and intimate, personal associations. In her projects, which range from tiny collages to drawings on paper to room-size installations, she uses everyday materials in an improvisational manner to search for limits and possibilities, seeking to discover new compositional devices and structures. Her work has been exhibited across the country and is…
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