Visiting Artist Lecture Lisa Jarrett

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

EWU Gallery of Art & SFCC FIne Art Gallery Present:

Visiting Artist Lecture:
Lisa Jarrett

SFCC Artist Lecture: Tuesday-May 5 at 11:30, sn-w’ey’-mn Bldg. 24, Room 110.

Closing Reception: May 5 at 12:30, sƛ̓x̣etkʷ Fine and Applied Arts Building 32, Fine Art Gallery, Lobby.

Refreshments generously sponsored by Art Club.

EWU Artist Lecture: Wednesday-May 6 at 12:00, EWU Art Building, Room 116

Admission is free

Artist Website: www.lisajarrett

 

This series is available through partnership with Eastern Washington University and Spokane Falls Community College. Additional support for this program comes from the Associated Student Government at SFCC 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. 

EWU 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’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

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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