2024 Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Presence of Place with Artist Jill Anholt
Hosted by the SFCC Fine Art Gallery with generous support from the Associated Student Government and the Sahlin Foundation.
When: November 13, 2024
Where: sƛ̓x̣etkʷ Fine and Applied Arts Building 32
Visit sƛ̓x̣etkʷ (ska-hét), Fine and Applied Arts Building 32 to view Jill Anholt’s dynamic public art glass installation “Aperture”, located on the building’s façade. The artwork was commissioned by ArtsWA for the Washington State Public Art Collection. The enduring installation on the façade of sƛ̓x̣etkʷ (ska-hét) building 32 responds to its name sƛ̓x̣etkʷ, from the Spokane dialect of the Salish language meaning “fast water”. Learn more from artist Jill Anholt about the concept and creation of her site-specific work at the artist’s lecture on November 13, 2024.
About the artist:
Jill Anholt is an award-winning artist based in Vancouver, Canada whose practice includes commissioned environmental and sculptural installations, and collaborative design team projects for public spaces across North America. Jill has a diverse education that includes Sculpture, Human Sciences and Architecture. Exploring hidden stories, systems, and qualities of a particular place, Jill searches for a unique spark of magic in every project she undertakes which she weaves into dynamic spatial artworks that create connections between people and between people and place through surprising moments of discovery, revelation, and/or transformation. Jill’s process, rooted in the rigors of her diverse education, embraces a wide variety of scales and materials, often incorporating dynamic illumination at night and utilizing elements that alter with viewer perspective or transform through interaction with natural phenomena during the day.