Author Archives: Julie
Week 8 is Evergreen’s own, Miranda Mellis! on Wednesday, May 19th from 11:30-1PM
Miranda Mellis is the author of Demystifications (Solid Objects, 2021); The Instead, a book-length dialogue with Emily Abendroth (Carville Annex, 2016); The Quarry (Trafficker Press, 2013); The Spokes (Solid Objects, 2012); None of This Is Real (Sidebrow Press, 2012); Materialisms … Continue reading
Week 6: Cassie Thornton, Wednesday, May 5th 11:30-1pm PDT via Zoom link to follow
Cassie Thornton is an artist and activist from the US, who makes a “safe space” for the unknown, for disobedience and for unanticipated collectivity. She currently lives and works in Thunder Bay, Canada. She refers to herself as a feminist … Continue reading
Week 4: José Gómez Farmworker Justice Day on Wednesday, 4/21 from 11:30-1pm
Celebrating Farmworker Justice Day! Hear voices from WA farm worker movement: Essential Workers Organizing in the Pandemic! Zoom Link – https://evergreen.zoom.us/j/85922813593 Learn about farmworkers response to COVID19 and wildfire danger using multigenerational movement organizing as an “ecosystem.” On Zoom with the Arts … Continue reading
Week 2: Tongo Eisen-Martin, San Francisco’s Poet Laureate on April 7th from 11:30-1pm via Zoom https://evergreen.zoom.us/j/84485514845
Originally from San Francisco, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a poet, movement worker, and educator. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people, We Charge Genocide Again, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. His book … Continue reading
Art Lecture Series, Spring Quarter
The Evergreen Art Lecture Series spring quarter lineup is here, and includes a Greener! This ongoing series presents a broad range of interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary art issues by artists, writers, activists and scholars. The aim is to stay actively … Continue reading
Week 8: Simone Nicole Savannah, Wednesday, 2/24 from 11:30-1pm via Zoom
Simone Savannah is a writer, performer and teacher, born and raised in Columbus, Ohio. She is the author of Uses of My Body (Barrow Street 2020) and Like Kansas (Big Lucks 2018). Simone earned her Ph.D. in Creative Writing from the … Continue reading
Week 6: Evergreen’s own, Gilda Sheppard! on Wednesday, February 10th from 11:30-1pm Zoom link: https://evergreen.zoom.us/j/87355222367
“The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.” James Baldwin Gilda Sheppard is currently a member of … Continue reading
Week 4: Patte Loper on Wednesday, 1/27 from 11:30-1pm. Zoom link: https://evergreen.zoom.us/j/84845187579
Patte Loper is an interdisciplinary artist based in painting who experiments with sculpture and video to explore a range of subject matter including feminist utopianism, new materialism, and the ecological imaginary. She was born in Colorado and grew up in Tallahassee, … Continue reading
Week 2: Thea Quiray Tagle on Wednesday, 1/13 from 11:30-1pm Zoom link: https://evergreen.zoom.us/j/82631124837
Thea Quiray Tagle, is a curator, writer, and an assistant professor of ethnic studies and gender & sexuality studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Throughout her various research and creative projects, Thea remains interested in the following questions: how can … Continue reading
Art Lecture Series, Winter Quarter
The Evergreen Art Lecture Series winter quarter lineup is here, and includes a Greener! This ongoing series presents a broad range of interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary art issues by artists, writers, activists and scholars. The aim is to stay actively … Continue reading