Category Archives: 2014-2015
Steven Hendricks: Wednesday, May 20th, 11:30-1:00 pm in Lecture Hall 1
Steven Hendricks was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He moved out west to attend Evergreen. He completed his MFA in Writing at The School of the … Continue reading
Kim Miller: Wednesday, May 6th, 11:30-1:00 pm in Lecture Hall 1
Kim Miller received her BFA from Cooper Union in New York City and her MFA from Vermont College. Miller has shown videos, performed live and combinations thereof on national tours and international shows, from China to Milwaukee. Kim was awarded … Continue reading
Alejandro de Acosta: Wednesday, April 29th, 11:30-1:00 pm in Lecture Hall 1
Alejandro de Acosta describes his Art Lecture as”a discussion of the work of Argentine poet Antonio Porchia (1885-1968), and his translation of Porchia. Porchia developed and wrote solely in a singular form he called voces (voices). His single book, named, precisely, VOCES, … Continue reading
Linda Weintraub: Wednesday, April 22nd, 11:30-1:00 pm, Lecture Hall 1
Linda Weintraub is a curator, educator, artist, and author of several popular books about contemporary art. Her recent writing explores the vanguard intersection between art and environmentalism, including TO LIFE! Eco Art In Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet (University of … Continue reading
Sister Spit: Wednesday, April 15th, 11:00-1:00 pm, Lecture Hall 1
Sister Spit began in San Francisco in the 1990s as a weekly, girls-only open mic that was an alternative to the misogyny-soaked poetry open mics popular around the city (and the nation) at that time. Inspired by two-bit punk bands … Continue reading
Ju-Pong Lin: Wednesday, April 1st 11:30-1:00 pm in Lecture Hall 1
I am an artist-researcher, educator, poet, and activist. I’m an immigrant from Taiwan—a contested spit of land with a long history of colonization. As the mother of two beautiful human beings, I … Continue reading
Welcome to the The Evergreen State College Art Lecture Series, spring quarter, 2015 The series takes place in Lecture Hall 1 at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA, on 4-6 Wednesdays per quarter, from 11:30-1:00 pm. Free to the public, … Continue reading
Johanna Gosse: Wednesday, March 4th, 11:30-1:00 pm in Lecture Hall 1
“Bruce Conner’s Atomic Sublime Cinema” San Francisco-based artist Bruce Conner made his first experimental film, A MOVIE, in 1958, at the height of national anxiety about the atomic threat. Over the following decades, his films continued to address the cultural and … Continue reading
MK Guth: Wednesday, February 18th, 11:30-1:00 pm in Lecture Hall 1
Small shifts in what is familiar amplify human presence and speak to the intricacies of social relations in MK Guth’s work. Her videos depart from everyday scenarios into the site of fiction as an entry point to more complicated issues … Continue reading
Allison Cobb: Wednesday, February 11th, 11:30-1:00 pm in Lecture Hall 1
Allison Cobb is the author of Born2 (Chax Press) about her hometown of Los Alamos, New Mexico, and Green-Wood (Factory School) about a nineteenth-century cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. The New York Times called Green-Wood “a gorgeous, subtle, idiosyncratic gem.” … Continue reading