The Evergreen Art Lecture Series presents a broad range of interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary art issues by artists, writers, activists and scholars who bring a diversity of practices from a variety of fields and areas of inquiry and creative production to our campus. The series provides a lively forum for the exchange of ideas between speakers, students, faculty and the public.
WHERE: Recital Hall, Communications Building, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
WHEN: (usually) Every other Wednesday, 11:30-1:00 pm, during the academic quarter. [see schedule below for details]
• All lectures are free and open to the public •
WINTER QUARTER 2019
Week 2, January 16: Markel Uriu, visual artist
Week 4, January 30: Vivian Hua, Executive Director, Northwest Film Forum, filmmaker, writer. Also see vivianhua.com
Week 6, February 13: Andrew Cutrofello, Scholar in Continental philosophy
Week 8, February 27: Unsoeld Lecture – Rosa Clemente , Afro-Puerto Rican journalist and scholar-activist [LOCATION CHANGE: Purce Hall, Lecture Hall 1]
Week 9, March 6: EVENING EVENT Moebius Animacion’s 2019 screening of Women in Latin American Experimental Animation, with Lina Aguirre
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Fall WEEK 2 – 10/3 Christopher Paul Jordan, painting and sculpture. Christopher Paul Jordan integrates virtual and physical public space to form infrastructures for dialogue and self-determination among dislocated people. Jordan’s paintings and sculptures are artifacts from his work in community and time-capsules for expanded inquiry.
Fall WEEK 4 – 10/17 Rodrigo Valenzuela, photography, video, installation. Born in Chile, Valenzuela is a Los Angeles-based artist working in photography, video, painting, and installation. Using autobiographical threads to inform larger universal fields of experience, his work constructs narratives, scenes, and stories that point to the tensions found between the individual and communities. Much of Valenzuela’s work deals with the experience of undocumented immigrants and laborers. He is an Evergreen alumni and assistant professor in the Art Department at UCLA.
Fall WEEK 6 – 10/31 Susanna Bluhm, painting. “My paintings are usually related in some way to my physical environments and experience of them. Source material I draw from when I’m painting often includes photographs I’ve taken of places I’ve been. Also, the paintings are experiments in creating new environments. An individual painting can become a new place in itself, with sensations of things that might happen in a place, such as weather, touch, landscape, temperature, sex or noise. Abstract marks interact with more recognizable shapes, and a kind of narrative ensues.”
Fall WEEK 8 – 11/14 Tradition and Innovation in the Work of Indigenous Basket Makers! Gail Tremblay, who has come out of retirement to teach the first ever class in Evergreen’s new Fiber Arts Studio, has assembled a panel of weavers to wow you! Joe Feddersen, Jeremy Frey, Terrol Dew Johnson, and Lisa Telford are joining Gail to allow students in the arts and students who are interested in learning more about the lives of contemporary Native American artists to study how those artists shape and maintain culture and support people in their communities. It will also help them to understand and value the way Indigenous American Artists represent their cultures to people so participants can learn to value and understand the meaning of Indigenous artwork.