Author Archives: Julie
Carl Smool: Wednesday, April 9 11:30-1:00 pm in Lecture Hall 1
Carl Smool is a Northwest native who spent the first 30 years of his career working in Seattle, often in the margins and in-between spaces of the art world. Arriving in Belltown in the late ’70s, he was motivated to … Continue reading
Leo Berk: Wednesday, February 26 11:30-1:00 pm in Lecture Hall 1
Born in 1973, Berk received a B.F.A. from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, in 1997, and an M.F.A. from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 1999. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions at Lawrimore Project, the Lee Center, … Continue reading
Juliana Spahr & David Buuck: Wednesday, February 19 11:30-1:00 in Lecture Hall 1
Juliana Spahr is a poet, critic, and editor. She is the recipient of the 2009 Hardison Poetry Prize awarded by the Folger Shakespeare Library to honor a U.S. poet whose art and teaching demonstrate great imagination and daring. Spahr received … Continue reading
Stephen Hayes: Wednesday, February 12 11:30-1:00 pm in Lecture Hall 1
Stephen Hayes was born and raised in Washington D.C. where his earliest memory of an interest in art is of a drawing he made with silver crayons of John Glenn and his “Rocket Ship” in 1960 something. He was about … Continue reading
Autumn Womack: Wednesday, February 5 11:30-1:00 pm in Lecture Hall 1
Autumn Womack received her PhD from Columbia University where her research focused on 19th and early twentieth century African American literary culture. At Columbia she developed a rich interest in archival practices, visual studies, black print culture, and social science. … Continue reading
Paula Rebsom: Wednesday, January 29 11:30 -1:00 pm in Lecture Hall 1
Paula Rebsom is an inter-disciplinary artist that makes large-scale paintings posed as sculptures in the landscape often documented and presented as photographs. She received her MFA in Sculpture from the University of Oregon in 2006 and completed undergraduate work at … Continue reading
Debra Baxter: Wednesday, January 15 11:30 -1:00 pm in Lecture Hall 1
Debra Baxter is a sculptor and jewelry designer who combines carved alabaster with crystals, minerals, and metals. She received her MFA in Sculpture from Bard College in 2007 and her BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in … Continue reading
Johanna Drucker: Wednesday, December 11 11:30-1:00 pm, Lecture Hall 1
Johanna Drucker is the inaugural Martin and Bernard Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA. She has published and lectured widely on topics related to digital humanities and aesthetics, visual forms of knowledge production, … Continue reading
Janice Arnold: Wednesday, November 20 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1
Photo by Shauna Bittle, courtesy of The Evergreen State College Janice Arnold’s art and installations have been redefining the boundaries of handmade FELT since 1999. The daughter of a cartographer, she learned a global perspective and scale as second sense. … Continue reading
Dennis DeHart: Wednesday, November 6 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1
Dennis DeHart’s (b.1970) fine art photographs and interdisciplinary projects are compelled by the connections, conflicts, and intersections of the natural and cultural worlds. His work has been exhibited in a diversity of venues including group and solo shows regionally, … Continue reading