Amelia Winger-Bearskin, an Austin, Texas-based artist who creates performance art and digital video, will speak about her recent work at Vanderbilt University.
Winger-Bearskin speaks at 3 p.m. Monday, March 24, in Room 222 of the Studio Arts Center, 1204 25th Ave. S., on the Vanderbilt campus. She is set to join the Vanderbilt faculty in the fall as a senior lecturer teaching performance, video and digital arts.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
A classically trained opera singer, Winger-Bearskin’s mother is an American Indian traditional storyteller and her father is Jewish.
“For her, the mixing of cultures is based on a complex set of human emotions including love, hate, not belonging, loss, death, violence and hope,” said critic Alex Codlin. “Amelia wants her work to provoke the viewers into questioning their own status as potentially mixed or not and to ultimately recognize the prevalence of mixed people in today’s society.”
The lecture is part of the StudioVU lecture series sponsored by the Studio Arts Department at Vanderbilt. It will be streamed live on VUCast, the Vanderbilt News Service website, at www.vanderbilt.edu/news/.
For more information on Winger-Bearskin, go to http://www.studioamelia.com/. For more information on the Vanderbilt Department of Art and Art History, go to http://www.vanderbilt.edu/arts/.
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