Making our Mark Artist Discussion Series: Legacy Artists

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Making our Mark Artist Discussion Series: Legacy Artists

Thursday, March 15, 2018:
6:30 - 8:30 PM
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Join BAM & Pratt for a series of panel discussions introducing some of the many artists featured in Making our Mark. BAM’s Director Emeritus Michael Monroe and Pratt Fine Arts Center Executive Director Steve Galatro will moderate three discussions with emerging artists, teaching specialists, and some who’ve built a lasting legacy in the region. Artists on each panel will talk about their own careers and artistic inspiration, as well as how their work at Pratt has influenced their paths as artists.

Members: Free Non-Members: $5

Refreshments provided by

Panelists

Juan Alonso-Rodríguez

Cuban-born Juan Alonso-Rodríguez is a self-taught artist with a career spanning over three decades in Seattle. His work has been exhibited throughout the US, Canada and Latin America and is included in the permanent collections of the Tacoma Art Museum, Portland Art Museum, Museum of Northwest Art, Microsoft, among others. He has created public works for Century Link Field, Seattle/Tacoma International Airport, King County Housing Authority, and more. His awards include a 2010 Seattle Mayor’s Arts Award, The Neddy Fellowship, ArtSpace’s 2016 DeJunius Hughes Award for Activism and the 2017 Conductive Garboil Grant. Juan is a Seattle Arts Commissioner and serves on the city’s Public Art Advisory Committee.

Marita Dingus

Marita Dingus was born and raised in Washington State and considers herself an African-American Feminist and environmental artist. She received her Masters of Fine Arts from San Jose State University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Tyler School of Art, Temple University. Ms. Dingus is a 1999 Guggenheim Fellow and has shown in the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway; NATO, Brussels, Belgium; Museum of Glass, Tacoma; Seattle Art Museum; Tacoma Art Museum. Her work is in the collections of Microsoft, Safeco, City of Seattle, Seattle Art Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, and many private collections. Marita is represented by Francine Seders Gallery.

Preston Singletary

With over 30 years of glass blowing experience, Preston Singletary creates works synonymous with the relationship between European glass blowing traditions and Northwest Native art. His artworks feature themes of transformation, animal spirits and shamanism through elegant blown glass forms and mystical sand carved Tlingit designs. His work is included in museum collections such as The British Museum (London, UK), The Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA), The Seattle Art Museum (Seattle WA), The Mint Museum of Art and Design (Charlotte, NC), The Heard Museum (Phoenix, AZ), and The Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC).

Cappy Thompson

Cappy Thompson is an internationally recognized Seattle artist known for her mytho-poetic narratives on glass using the grisaille (or gray-tonal) painting technique. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at the Seattle Art Museum, Mint Museum, Museum of Glass, and Bellevue Arts Museum, among others, and can be found in the collections of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Birmingham Museum of Art, Museum of Glass, Tacoma Art Museum, and more.