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Artist Dialogue | Letha Wilson

November 10, 2024 | 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST

Sunday, November 10th | 1pm – 2pm | Free + in person

Artist Letha Wilson and curator Hilary Schaffner will be in dialogue to discuss Wilson’s current exhibition Cut, Bend, Burn and her creative process.

About the artist

Letha Wilson was born in Hawaii, raised in Colorado, and currently works in Taghkanic and Brooklyn, New York. She received her BFA from Syracuse University, and her MFA from Hunter College in New York City. Letha attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2009, and her artwork has been shown at many venues including Mass MoCA, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Columbus Museum of Art, Art in General, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, and International Center for Photography. Letha’s work has been reviewed in Artforum, Art in America, the New York Times, The New Yorker, among others. Letha has been awarded artist residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Sharpe -Walentas Studio Program, among others. In both 2019 and 2014 Letha was awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Photography. In Fall 2022 Letha was the Windgate Artist-in-Residence at Purchase College, State University of New York.

About the curator

Hilary Schaffner is an independent curator whose career in the arts spans over 20 years. In 2011 she co-founded Halsey McKay Gallery in Long Island, New York with the goal of bringing mid-career and emerging artists to the area. She was responsible for the direction and curation of numerous exhibitions at Halsey McKay between 2011-2017. Prior to founding the gallery, she received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City while working as Director of the Wild Project Gallery on the Lower East Side.  Hilary has worked in public relations for arts institutions including the Dia Art Foundation, Isamu Noguchi Foundation and the Cisneros Foundation. She has been a guest critic at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, NY; School of Visual Arts, NY, Parsons School of Design, NY and MECA, ME. Since moving to Maine in 2018 Hilary has curated several exhibitions including: Broken Open at Museum of New Art, Portsmouth, NH,  You Look Like a World at Able Baker Gallery, Portland, ME and Asters & Goldenrod at Alice Gavin Gallery, Portland, ME. Her curatorial work has been featured in Artforum, ArtNews, Interview, The East Hampton Star, Modern Painters, Vogue, Portland Press Herald and Boston Art Review. Hilary lives in Portland, ME.

Details

Date:
November 10, 2024
Time:
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST
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Venue

CMCA
21 Winter Street
Rockland, ME 04841 United States
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Phone:
207-701-5005

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