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Event: Unsettled States: Art in and Against Crisis

Date: February 27, 2020
Time: 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Where: E.A. Johnston Auditorium, The Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, 2316 W 1st Ave

Panel Program: “UNSETTLED STATES: Art in and Against Crisis”

Moderator: Dr. Johanna Gosse, Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Culture, University of Idaho

Panelists: Amanda Donnan, Curator, Seattle Frye Art Museum; Catherine Girard, Professor, Art History, EWU; and Meredith Shimizu, Professor, Art History, Whitworth University

Cost: Free Admission

Limit: 180, first-come, first-served

Location: Eric A. Johnston Auditorium

The Museum continues its Visiting Artist Lecture Series (VALS) collaboration with Spokane Falls Community College and Eastern Washington University hosting this special panel discussion focusing on a conversation of the unsettling state of the arts.

*Please Note: In addition to the Museum’s free panel program, there will be two additional free talks offered through VALS. These two lectures will be led by Amanda Donnan, Curator of Seattle’s Frye Art Museum, based on the theme “The Feeling of Eye: Art, Empathy and Entanglement”. Ms. Donnan’s talks will take place at Eastern Washington University (in their art building, at 4 pm, Wednesday, February 26); and Spokane Falls Community College (Building 24, Room 110, at 11:30 am, Thursday, February 27). For further information on these lectures contact the colleges art departments. 

Ticket Cost: Free