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Iván Carmona was recently interviewed, ahead of his solo show at PDX CONTEMPORARY ART, in his studio by Portland-based artist David Schell on his blog Semi Finalist.

Iván talks about his minimalistic style, the inspiration he finds in nature, culture, and childhood memories from his time spent in Puerto Rico, and the influences he draws from as he creates his sculptural works.

Check out the interview here: https://www.davidscottschell.com/semi-finalist/semi-finalist-presents-i…

Joe Rudko was recently interviewed in the In the In-Between: Journal of New and New Media Photography by Bree Lamb- artist, educator, and editor based in New Mexico. Lamb’s interview gives an in depth look into Rudko’s studio, aesthetic, process, materials, and experiences.

Take a look at the interview online here:
https://www.inthein-between.com/find-cut-paste-bree-lamb-interviews-joe…

Marie Watt's work is on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 'Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950-2019.' Skywalker/Skyscraper (Axis Mundi) was made in Brooklyn, New York, and references the Iroquois iron workers who were known as 'Skywalkers', and built many of the skyscrapers in the city.

This exhibition remains on view through January 2021.
Congratulations, Marie!

https://whitney.org/exhibitions/making-knowing#exhibition-artists

Listen to Marie talk about her work in the show here:
https://whitney.org/audio-guides/2276?language=english&type=general&nig…

Marie Watt will be a visiting artist at Yale University Art Gallery on Saturday, November 2nd and Sunday, November 3rd. Marie Watt's two pieces "First Teachers Balance the Universe, Part I: Things That Fly (Predator)" and "First Teachers Balance the Universe, Part II: Things That Fly (Prey)" were recently accepted into the permanent collection of Yale University Art Gallery and are currently on view.

On Saturday, November 2nd at 3:00 pm, Marie Watt will give a lecture celebrating the opening of the exhibition "Place, Nations, Generations, Beings: 200 Years of Indigenous North American Art" at Yale University Art Gallery. Having received her M.F.A. from Yale University in 1996, Watt will discuss her cross-disciplinary practice, time spent at Yale, and the works in the exhibition.

On Sunday, November 3rd from 12:00 - 3:00 pm, Marie Watt and Yale University Art Gallery will host a community sewing circle. Both events are free and open to the public. People are invited to come as they are; no sewing experience is necessary and all ages are welcome. Exclusively at this event, in exchange for stitches, Watt will offer a small-scale, limited-edition print.

https://artgallery.yale.edu/calendar/events/opening-lecture-first-teach…
https://artgallery.yale.edu/calendar/events/studio-program-sewing-circle

Jenene Nagy's recent interview with KBOO's Joseph Gallivan is up on their website. Take a listen and learn more about Jenene's handsome show, box breathing.

https://kboo.fm/media/76008-joseph-gallivan-interviews-painter-jenene-n…

Victoria Haven is an artist-in-residence at the Rauschenberg Residency on Captiva Island, Florida. Congratulations, Victoria!

About the Residency: The Rauschenberg Residency is inspired by Rauschenberg's early years at Black Mountain College where an artistic community brought out elements central to his art, collaboration, and exploration. The residency advances new work, extends practices into new mediums, and serves as a research and development lab for performance-based projects. It fosters the ideal that artistic practice advances mutual understanding and engenders a focus on the conservation of a sensitive and pristine environment and integration with the local surroundings. Events designed to connect the local and regional community with the artists in residence may include an open studio of works in progress, outreaches by residents, and on-site activities/tours held in partnership with schools and arts and environmental organizations.

The harmonious juxtaposition of natural landscape, modern and adaptable studios, and idyllic housing provides a perfect backdrop for the artistic process. The spirit of Robert Rauschenberg is everywhere.

Please join us for an exhibition walkthrough of 'box breathing' with Los Angeles-based artist Jenene Nagy. Please RSVP to gallery@pdxcontemporaryart.com.

Saturday, October 5, 2019
11:30 am

PDX CONTEMPORARY ART
925 NW Flanders Street
Portland, OR 97209

Marie Watt will be an artist-in-residence at the Tacoma Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA, from Wednesday, September 18, 2019 - Sunday, September 22, 2019.

In addition to the residency, Marie Watt will be giving a lecture at the Tacoma Museum of Glass on Sunday, September 22, 2019 at 2:00 pm.

Tacoma Museum of Glass
1801 Dock Street
Tacoma, WA 98402

Watch the work being made live: https://www.museumofglass.org/experiencemog

Storm Tharp is exhibiting at The Hallie Ford Museum of Art as a part of the Hallie Ford Fellows in Visual Arts exhibition, "What Needs to Be Said," curated by Diana Nawi. Of Storm's work, Diana Nawi writes, "... Storm Tharp's 'Cadre' (2017) contains a quality of pathos, communicated through dynamic gesture and bodies and visages that make visible sentiment and sensation. For Tharp, seriality yields both juxtaposition and cohesion. While a breadth of gestures is contained in this suite of thirty-six works on paper, ranging from total abstraction to clear figuration, from grinding black lines to washy inks, together they form an expressive, almost linguistic set of images that holds contradiction and grace side-by-side." ('What Needs to Be Said,' Diana Nawi, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, 2019, Page 17)

Congratulations, Storm, and thank you to The Ford Family Foundation for their generous support of Oregon Artists through the Hallie Ford Fellowship program!

September 14 - December 20, 2019

Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University
700 State Street
Salem, OR 97301

Tuesday - Saturday
10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Sunday
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Marie Watt will be giving a lecture at Frye Art Museum as a part of the "In Focus: Contemporary First Nations and Native American Women Artists and Curators Lecture Series.”

Thursday, September 19, 2019
7:00 pm

Frye Art Museum
704 Terry Avenue
Seattle, WA 98104

Lecture information: "What would the world look like if we thought of ourselves as companion species? Marie Watt doesn’t pretend to have the answer to this question, but her work does seek to forge relationships and reveal aspects of our connectedness to one another, to animals, and to the natural world. Rather than presenting her extensive body of work in chronological order, Watt will piece together themes in a way that might resemble sewing together a blanket.”

https://fryemuseum.org/calendar/event/7245/