Please join us for a panel discussion on Thursday, February 27, 5:00 – 6:30 pm in Brown 320, 澳门金沙投注_任你博-官网 Brown Center. This event is held in conjunction with the exhibition, LAYERS: The Art of Contemporary Collage, currently on view in 澳门金沙投注_任你博-官网's Decker Gallery (Fox Building, Floor 1).

Born of nonsense, with its roots in the Dada Movement, collage has been described as the primary medium of the 20th century. Contemporary artists working in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and digitally advancing world now use collage as an important strategy.

Its multi-layering of images and mediums reflects the cultural and technological flux of life today. By subverting definitions of what is relevant materially and conceptually, artists disrupt expectations and inspire us to imagine a new direction.

Panel Discussion:
This panel is organized and moderated by 澳门金沙投注_任你博-官网 faculty Laure Drogoul. It brings together four Baltimore-based artists to share their work and discuss individual artwork strategies.

PANELISTS
Oletha DeVane - Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Oletha DeVane received her B.F.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art and M.F.A. in painting from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. As a multidisciplinary artist, her social, political and spiritual concerns are the content of her art practice.

Jeffrey Kent is an American multidisciplinary artist and curator whose life's work has been a conduit for self-healing and communal wellness. His artwork is conceptual, with the most defining elements borrowing from his reflections on America’s racialized history and his place in it. The throughline of his varied artistic forms is his ability to demonstrate the inextricable links between historical meta-narratives and his story.

Valeska Populoh (she/her) works as an artist, educator and cultural organizer. Embracing a wide array of tactics, from puppetry to participatory performance, Valeska's work is motivated by an interest in healing and repair, in our relationships to each other and to the natural world. She is inspired by art forms that extend the life of 'single use' objects and transform often overlooked materials that are near at hand and connect us to the places we live.

Jordan Tierney - Jordan’s artistic practice involves a daily pilgrimage to the urban streams and forests buffers of Baltimore, surrendering to whatever the Jones Falls watershed can teach her. By observing the struggling environment and collecting flotsam and jetsam she finds in the streams, she builds a story based in the near future. Believing a healthy culture grows from the soil up, she fabricates her work from what she can find on foot. 

MODERATOR
Laure Drogoul is an interdisciplinary artist, bricoleur and cobbler of situations. Her installations and interactive performances embrace play, humor, and sometimes horror as a way to invite the viewer to be an active participant. Laure’s works explore cultural and environmental phenomena with the hope of fostering a deeper understanding of our shared world.