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30 Friday / January 30, 2015

Gallery Talk: Carissa Carman & Carrie Mae Smith

12:00 pm to 01:00 pm
Grunwald Gallery of Art,1201 E 7th St. Room 110
http://www.indiana.edu/~grunwald

The Grunwald Gallery is pleased to present gallery talks in conjunction with the exhibition Implied Action: Performance Through Object. On Friday, January 30, Carissa Carman & Carrie Mae Smith will speak about their work at noon in the Grunwald Gallery. Implied Action: Performance Through Object is on view now through Friday, February 13.

Carissa Carman earned her BA from the University of California Chico (2001) and her MFA in Fibers at Concordia University, Montreal (2012), where she also was a research assistant for Subtela, Hexagram. From 2003-2009 she was based in New York City, where she received residencies and grants from Women’s Studio Workshop, Andy Warhol Foundation, New York Foundation of the Arts, New York Council of the Arts, Chashama North, Vermont Studio Center and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council amongst others. She has presented nationally and internationally in New York City, Seattle, Indiana, Florida, Montreal, Sackville New Brunswick, Cuba, Italy, and France. Her artworks are in major collections at Yale, Rhode Island School of Design, and Virginia Commonwealth. Carman is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in Textiles at IU Bloomington.

Carrie Mae Smith, a New England native, is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2005, and completed an MFA in Sculpture at the University of Delaware, 2013. Her work investigates marginalized histories and utilitarian forms. She is interested in traditional construction techniques and fine craftsmanship whether working with wood, steel, panty hose or cheese-puffs. Smith has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, is a recipient of artist grants from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund and the Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation. She was awarded an Artist Residency at Winterthur Museum and Gardens, a Summer Fellowship in Material Culture Studies at the University of Delaware, and most recently completed a residency at RAIR (Recycled Artist in Residence) in North East Philadelphia, PA.

For further information, please contact the Grunwald Gallery at (812) 855-8490 or [email protected]. We invite you to visit our website at http://www.indiana.edu/~grunwald/. The Grunwald Gallery is accessible to people with disabilities. Gallery hours are Tuesday – Saturday, noon – 4:00 pm, closed Sunday and Monday. All events are free and open to the public. For more information on the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts at Indiana University, please visit www.fa.indiana.edu.

Cost: Free and open to the public

For more information contact:

Betsy Stirratt
(812)855-8490
[email protected]

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