Department of Art and Design Faculty Exhibition 2020
Members
of the Department of Art & Design faculty exhibit their current
work. Exhibition features work in painting, graphic design, ceramics,
sculpture & video by faculty Kate Kinder, Michael Volker, Kris
Sanford, Ryan Flesher, David Stairs, Israel Davis, Steve Leeper and
Kayla Lindeman.
September 10 – October 1, 2020
Bivouac: Hannah Perrine Mode
Bivouac is
an installation by 2020 Barstow Artist-in-Residence Hannah Perrine
Mode. Soft sculptures of photographic cyanotype prints on fabric –
including those created in situ on the banks of rivers and glacial
nunataks – suggest precarious bodies, tethering, and weight. Tension
activates each sculpture, tied in directly to the architectural features
of the space. Together the work orbits around notions of shelter,
hydrologic systems, and embodied memory, blending utilitarian technology
with domestic handiwork.
Hannah Perrine Mode is an
interdisciplinary artist and educator working at the confluence of
visual art, community storytelling and polar science. She creates
objects and installations as proxies for climate change, Earth systems,
and human connection. Through public engagement and performance, she
facilitates ways to bring the vastness of geologic time to an intimate
human scale. Often combining place-based making with participatory
events, she teaches art as a tool for creative thinking, science
communication, and public outreach – utilizing abstract art to deepen
connection to geologic forces and foster an intersectional approach to
climate studies.
Hannah has collaborated with environmental
science and outdoor organizations around the world. She serves as an
academic council member and art faculty for the Juneau Icefield Research
Program in Southeast Alaska, and has been a Visiting Artist with the
International Arctic Science Committee in Iceland and Chulengo
Expeditions in Patagonia. She was an Artist-in-Residence with Google,
the National Park Service/Parks Canada, Alaska State Parks, and Vermont
Studio Center. She is a co-founder of Erratics, a collaborative
curatorial working group exploring empathy and geology.
Hannah
has an MFA in Studio Art from Mills College and a BS in Studio Art from
Skidmore College. She is currently the Barstow Artist-in-Residence at
Central Michigan University.
September 10 – October 1, 2020
