The Forst Endowed Fine Arts Visiting Artist Program
The Forst Endowed Fine Arts Visiting Artist Program brings students face to face with artists from the Northwest and beyond. They give public lectures and conduct seminars discussing career activities and their work. MFA and BFA students have the opportunity to meet one on one with these nationally recognized artists. Often, visiting artists will install an exhibition or create an installation in our Gallery 2, a professional gallery space within the Fine Arts Center. Students have the opportunity to collaborate with or assist visiting artists on these exhibits or installations. Additional exhibitions are scheduled in Gallery 2 throughout the year, as well as those of our MFA graduate students at the end of their first year.
Spring 2012 Visiting Artists
Casey Doyle and Stacy Isenbarger
January 9th to February 16th, 2012
Opening and Lecture: January 12th, 6pm Fine Arts Auditorium
Reception to follow
Faculty from the University of Idaho, Stacy Isenbarger and J. Casey Doyle present works questioning identity through a range of processes and materials. Doyle’s I AM MY OWN CHEERLEADER celebrates empowering the self, while Isenbarger’s I.M.M.G.R.A.N.T. (Environmental Status) addresses effects labeling has on a cultural environment.
Susan Noyes Platt, Ph.D.
Lecture: February 16th, 6pm Fine Arts Auditorium
ART AND POLITICS NOW: CULTURAL ACTIVISM IN A TIME OF CRISIS
This presentation examines a selection of the 80 artists included in the book, Art and Politics Now: Cultural Activism in a Time of Crisis (Midmarch 2011) emphasizing the wide ranging strategies and media that the artists use to address social issues. The lecture considers practice among contemporary artists who are pursuing social and political engagement both in the US and globally. Topics include opposition to war, terrorism, racism, borders, and the violation of the earth. It ranges from the art of street protest to the international art scene with an emphasis on globalization issues such as the exploitation of women in maquiladoras and the displacement of people in war. It will also include the Occupy movement. Discussion and debate from the audience is welcome.
Spencer Moody and Coco Howard
Feb 23rd to March 29th
Lecture February 23rd, 6pm, Fine Arts Auditorium
Reception to follow
Spencer Moody and Coco Howard are Seattle based husband and wife artist dynamo who have collaborated on a variety of projects including installations, music, painting, sculpture, photography, video, and plush toy design. Their February 2012 exhibition at WSU will be an installation titled Into The Woods, which will feature a forest made of burlap coffee sacks, inhabited by witches and bears, the center of which will be a mystic cabin of darkness.
Spring 2012
Gallery 2 and WSU Museum of Art Lectures
Casey Doyle and Stacy Isenbarger
Lecture: January 12th, 6pm Fine Arts Auditorium
Reception to follow
Susan Noyes Platt, Ph.D.
Lecture: February 16th, 6pm Fine Arts Auditorium
ART AND POLITICS NOW: CULTURAL ACTIVISM IN A TIME OF CRISIS
Spencer Moody and Coco Howard
Lecture February 23rd, 6pm, Fine Arts Auditorium
Reception to follow
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