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The Visiting Artist Lecture Series invites artists, critics and curators from around the world, loosely linking them by theme of a particular interest.

Winter 2024 Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Expressions of Place

Artwork by Cara Levine. Two are images combined. The first image is of a person’s hands holding a book in a public library. The second image is of a person with a black sweater standing outside of store window. The store window has a collection of white shirt collars.

Artist: Cara Levine
SFCC Lecture: Monday March 11, 2024
Location: sn-w'ey'-mn Building. 24, Room 110 Address: 3410 W. Whistalks Way, Spokane, WA 99224
Time: 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

EWU Lecture: Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Location: EWU Campus, Art Building, Room 116
Address: 22 7th St, Cheney, WA 99004
Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

About the artist:

Cara Levine is an artist based in Los Angeles, CA. She earned a BFA from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI (2007) and an MFA from California College of the Arts in San Francisco, CA (2012). Using sculpture, video, and socially engaged practices, she explores the intersections of the physical, metaphysical, traumatic, and illusionary. She is the founder of This Is Not A Gun, a multidisciplinary project aiming to create awareness and activism through collective creative action. Her work has been presented in one-person, group exhibitions, and participatory events in venues around the world such as the The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco (2023), MOCA Geffen Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA (2020); Creative Time, New York, NY (2019); The Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK, (2019), Tenderloin Museum, San Francisco, CA (2017); Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel; Wattis Institute For Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA (2012); and Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan (2006). Levine has participated in residency programs including Santa Fe Art Institute (2017); The Arctic Circle, International Territory of Svalbard (2017); Sedona Arts Colony, Sedona, AZ (2016); SIM Residency, Reykjavík, Iceland (2015); Anderson Ranch, Aspen, CO (2014); and Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT (2013). Levine is currently an associate adjunct professor in Fine Art and Foundations at Otis College of Art and Design and has worked in the disability arts community since 2011 in roles at various progressive art studios including the Exceptional Children’s Foundation, Inglewood, CA and Creative Growth, Oakland, CA. She organized the first annual Self-Taught Artists Fair with Public Annex in Portland, OR in 2017.

Spring 2024 Visiting Artist Lecture Series: RYAN! Feddersen

Artwork by RYAN! Elizabeth Feddersen

EWU Lecture: Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Time: 12:00-1:00 Location: Art Building, Room 116 Address: 22 7th St, Cheney, WA 99004

SFCC Lecture: Thursday, May23, 2024
Time: 1:00-2:00 Location: sn-w’ey’-mn Building 24, Room 110 Address: 3410 W. Whistalks Way Spokane, WA 99224

About the artist:

RYAN! Elizabeth Feddersen specializes in creating compelling site-specific installations and public artworks which invite people to consider our relationships to history, culture, the land, and our non-human-kin. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Cornish College of the Arts in 2009, and is now based in Tacoma, Washington. Feddersen grew up in Wenatchee and is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, from the Okanogan and Arrow Lakes bands, and of mixed European descent. Her practice focuses on creative problem solving to address social issues through visual allegories that provide opportunities for exploration, introspection, and epiphany. She investigates creative strategies to activate engagement through interactive materials, community sourced content, social practice, fun and humor. These approaches enable her work to start conversations about a broad spectrum of subjects and promote collective learning. Feddersen has created large-scale site-specific pieces and interactive installations throughout North America and has a growing body of permanent artworks in the public realm.

All Visiting Artist Lecture Series events are free and open to the public.