Visiting Artist Lecture Lisa Jarrett

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Abstract art that looks like human hair woven into a canvas.
from Migration Studies

51福利社 Gallery of Art & SFCC FIne Art Gallery Present:

Visiting Artist Lecture:
Lisa Jarrett

SFCC听Artist Lecture:听Tuesday-May 5 at 11:30,听sn-w鈥檈y鈥�-mn Bldg. 24, Room 110.

Closing Reception:听May 5 at 12:30, s茮虛x蹋etk史听Fine and Applied Arts Building听32, Fine Art Gallery, Lobby.

Refreshments generously sponsored by Art Club.

51福利社 Artist Lecture:听Wednesday-May 6 at 12:00, 51福利社 Art Building, Room 116

Admission is free

Artist Website:

 

This series is available through partnership with 51福利社 and Spokane Falls Community College. Additional support for this program comes from the Associated Student Government at听SFCC听and the Sahlin Fund at Spokane Colleges Foundation. The exhibition has been made possible through the Ford Family Foundation Grant. Special thank you to Art Club for sponsoring closing reception refreshments.听

51福利社 Artist Lecture | Wednesday, May 6th, Noon

Join us for a visiting artist lecture with Lisa Jarrett, an artist whose work unfolds across social and visual forms.

Jarrett鈥檚 intersectional practice engages the politics of difference through an expansive range of contexts鈥攕chools, communities, museums, landscapes, and imagined spaces. Her work blurs boundaries between art and life, inviting dialogue about freedom, identity, and belonging. Recently, she has discovered that her primary medium is questions鈥攖he most urgent of which asks: What will set you free?

Location: 51福利社 Art Building, Room 116

Time: 12pm PST

Admission is free

Lisa Jarett

Artist Statement

Migration Studies

Migration Studies (2018-present) is an ongoing project. I work with drawing, sculpture, and installation to examine hair care and beauty routines within Black culture as a bridge to themes about inventing our own survival. These routines are rituals wherein we claim beauty standards existing beyond and before dominant narratives. I use the tools of these ritual practices as drawing materials whose histories both trace and extend our lost languages and homelands. These material and formal choices reflect my broader interest in repetition and reproduction as tools of consumer culture and cultural preservation. I am curious about how our personal/private routines (and the attendant products and purchases) live within our imaginations, conversations, and stories while also connecting us to our collective past and future. The art object is the transformative mechanism by which different systems of value become visible and knowable.

Colorful fibers woven on a canvas.
from Migration Studies
Portrait

Lisa Jarrett

Artist Bio

Lisa Jarrett (she/her) is an artist working in social and visual forms. Her intersectional practice considers the politics of difference within a variety of settings including: schools, landscapes, fictions, racial imaginaries, studios, communities, museums, galleries, walls, mountains, mirrors, floors, rivers, and prisms. She recently discovered that her primary medium is questions; the most urgent of which is: What will set you free?

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