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Maryland Art Place's 25th Anniversary Fall Lecture Series
MAP will be hosting its 25th Anniversary Lecture series on select Saturdays this fall in partnership with the Maryland Humanities Council.
Lecture Participants:
Saturday, October 21- Elaine Terranova is an award-winning poet who often selects objects or images of humble origins to explore in her writing—to the degree that these objects extend beyond themselves and are able to comment on the human condition. She has received a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and most recently a Pew Fellowship in the Arts award. Her words have been published in The New Yorker, Praire Schooner, The American Poetry Review, and the Antioch Review. Her book, The Cult of the Right Hand won the Walt Whitman Award in 1991.
Saturday, October 28- Astrid Bowlby creates room-sized installations from thousands of hand-cut ink drawings on paper, resulting in an accumulation of marks that create fantasy topographies and landscapes. Bowlby has had solo exhibitions of her work at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockport; Elizabeth Harris Gallery in New York; Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts; and Gallery Joe, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, both in Philadelphia. Her work is included in the collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the New York Public Library, among others.
Saturday, November 4- Nadia Hironaka is a video installation artist and filmmaker whose work explores the relationship of cinematic, physical, and psychological space and perception of time. Her most recent exhibition, "The Late Show," at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, was her first solo museum exhibition. Hironaka has received two Window of Opportunity grants from the Leeway Foundation, a Best Film Debut awards from the New York Expo, and the Peter Stuyvessant Fish Award in Media Arts. Her work has appeared in numerous galleries throughout the United States, including the Fabric Workshop, the Institute of Contemporary Art, and The Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design, among others.
Saturday, November 18- Pat Olesko is a phenomenal performance artist recognized throughout the United States and abroad for her outrageously humorous costumes, inflatable art and monologues reflecting her views on popular culture. Known as the Ms. Tricks of Dis Guise, Olesko's work has appeared at the Museum of Modern Art, P.S. 122, Banff Center for the Arts, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She has received many grants and awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship and New York Dance and Performance Award for Sustained Achievement.
