May. 16th, 2026
EWU Art Building, Room 116
Admission is free
Artist Website: www.lisajarrett
Join us for a visiting artist lecture with Lisa Jarrett, an artist whose work unfolds across social and visual forms.
Jarrett’s intersectional practice engages the politics of difference through an expansive range of contexts—schools, 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—the most urgent of which asks: What will set you free?
Location: Eastern Washington University Art Building, Room 116
Time: 12pm PST
Admission is free
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.
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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