Visiting Artists Lecture Series: August
WASSAIC, NY— The Wassaic Project announces the continuation of its summer art conversation series about contemporary art with these upcoming speakers: Berin Golonu on Sunday, August 7th at 3:30pm, Elizabeth Michelman on Friday, August 12 at 5pm, Jonathan Corcoran on Monday, August 15th at 12pm, Sally Morgan Lehman on Friday, August 19th at 11am, Jason Mones on Saturday, August 20th, at 11am, and Kyle Williams on Saturday, August 27 at 12pm. All lectures will be held at Luther Barn. They are free and open to the.
Born in Istanbul, Berin Golonu is a Ph.D. candidate in the Visual and Cultural Studies Program at the University of Rochester. Golonu’s writings on modern and contemporary art have appeared in publications such as Afterimage, Aperture, Art in America, Art on Paper, Art Papers, frieze, Modern Painters, Third Text and Zing Magazine.
Lecture on Sunday, August 7th, 3:30pm.
Elizabeth Michelman is a multidisciplinary artist, art critic, and independent curator in the Boston area whose practice inquires into interdisciplinary boundaries and the use of language. Her spatial, conceptual, and linguistic strategies link a broad range of forms, disciplines and cultural experience, including site-responsive installation and video, participatory art, environmental art, language, poetry, and music.
Lecture on Friday, August 12th, 5pm.
Jonathan Corcoran is the author of the story collection, The Rope Swing (April 2016). His work has been named a finalist for the Flannery O’Connor Award in Short Fiction and a semi-finalist for the St. Lawrence Book Award and is forthcoming in the anthology, Eyes Burning at the Edge of the Woods: Contemporary West Virginia Fiction and Poetry.
Lecture on Monday, August 15th, 12pm.
Sally Morgan Lehman is the founder and director of Morgan Lehman Gallery, which has been based in Chelsea 2005. Ms. Lehman is an active member of Art Table and POWArts and has served as a visiting critic and juror at Wave Hill, Guttenberg Arts, and A Blade of Grass among many others
Lecture on Friday, August 19th, 11am.
Jason Mones received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 1999 and his MFA from the Yale University School of Art in 2008. Mones just recently had a solo exhibition at TSA LA gallery and has been included in several group exhibitions including the Queens Biennial, Queens Museum of Art; Fellows Exhibition, Provincetown Arts Museum; Red Herring, Fjord Gallery, Philadelphia; MIXTAPE, Studio 4, Brooklyn; Privacy Made Public, New Hope Arts Center, New Hope, PA; amongst others.
Lecture on Saturday, August 20th, 11am.
Kyle Williams is a visual artist working with drawing, painting, installation and video. His practice focuses on an exploration of objects: a particular interest in the strange or uncanny quality or presence objects can have on screen. His recent videos and installations give viewers time with objects that have been nudged out of their place in the world—out of their scientific or economic logic—to create a kind of cinematic re-imaging of the relationships that exist between us and our things.
Lecture on Saturday, August 27th, 12pm.
For more information, visit wassaicproject.org/events/
THE WASSAIC PROJECT is a non profit organization founded in 2008 in the heart of the historic hamlet of Wassaic, NY. The Project is an incubator for artists, community, kids and their connections providing an intimate context for art-making and strengthening local community through the creation and promotion of contemporary visual and performing art. Programming is year round and features an annual Summer Exhibition in the Maxon Mills, a repurposed seven-story grain elevator; a year-round free drop-in arts space for kids, the Art Nest; an artist-in-residence program with monthly open studios open; and ongoing community and education programs. In addition, the Wassaic Project partners with local public schools and community organizations to further engage with its communities.
For further information and to make a contribution, please connect with the Wassaic Project at wassaicproject.org, facebook.com/TheWassaicProject
The Wassaic Project
37 Furnace Bank Road (mailing PO Box 220)
Wassaic NY 12592
917.748.4801
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