Culture
To Reify Soft and Hard Realities: Speaking With Artist Mary Manusos
By: Emily Votaw
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Ohio University professor emerita of art, Mary Manusos, has been crafting works distinctly influenced by the vivacious Latin American culture that she grew up with in San Diego, CA and her meditations on the past, the nature of memory, and the now versus the later for over 40 years.
Her exhibition “States of Being” is currently on display through the end of September in the Trisolini Gallery in Ohio University’s Baker Center, and she will speak at a gallery talk in the exhibition on Friday, September 22 at 5:30 p.m. She will also be the keynote speaker for a symposium by professional alumni graduates of the Ohio University School of Art + Design on Saturday, September 23; which will take place in Seigfred Hall in the Mitchel Auditorium in room 519.
WOUB’s Emily Votaw spoke with Manusos about her large body of work, a trip to Mexico in the mid-’70s that changed her artistic vision, and how she has seen the nature of professional art change over the course of her career.
Check out the list of INKAHOOTS! events below:
Alumni printing editions during the Alumni INKAHOOTS! week:
(Wednesday, September 20 – Friday, September 22)
Relief— Kristin Powers Nowlin (printing Sept 20-22)
Etching— Carrie Lingscheit (printing Sept 19-22)
Litho— Misty Morrison (printing Sept 18-22)
Paper— Annette Gaspers (working Sept 19-22)
Screen— Bill Fisher (printing Sept 18-22)
Zines— Charlie Touvell & Chris Monday (printing Sept 20-22)
Alumni INKAHOOTS! Artist Talks Schedule:
Bill Fisher — Monday, September 18 9am, Seigfred 201
Annette Gaspers — Wednesday, September 20 9am, Seigfred 201
Misty Morrison & Carrie Lingscheit — Wednesday, September 20 1pm, Seigfred 203
Kristin Powers Nowlin — Wednesday, September 20 4pm, Seigfred 203
Charlie Touvell & Chris Monday — Thursday, September 21 1:30pm, Seigfred 203
Alumni presenting during the Alumni Symposium:
(Saturday, September 23)
Joey Behrens
Jeff Carr
John Cizmar
Emily Cline
Jon Cone
Josh Dannin
Laura Drapac
Benjy Davies
Elizabeth Foley
Mark Hackworth
Bobby Howsare
Traci Molloy
Robert Newman
Cait Nolan
Barry O’Keefe
Frank Oriti
Sage Perrott
Matt Presutti
Cayla Skillin-Brauchle
Scott Smith
Shawn Smith
Anna Tararova
Susan Urano
Connie Wolfe
Danielle Wyckoff
Alumni Symposium Schedule:
8-9 am— BREAKFAST
9-9:30am — Mary’s Keynote Talk
9:45-10:45 am — Teaching Opportunities: Post-Secondary Education Alternatives (Emily Cline, Elizabeth Foley, Cait Nolan, Sage Perrott)
11 am -12 pm — Creating Community Outside of Academia (Joey Behrens, Laura Drapac, Connie Wolfe, John Cizmar)
12-12:30 pm — LUNCH
12:30-1:30 pm — 6 Individual Artist Talks (Traci Molloy, Benjy Davies, Robert Newman, Josh Dannin, Anna Tararova, Shawn Smith)
1:40-2:40 pm — 6 Individual Artist Talks (Cayla Skillin-Brauchle, Jon Cone, Scott Smith, Susan Urano, Matt Presutti, Frank Oriti)
2:50-3:40 pm — 5 Individual Artist Talks (Danielle Wyckoff, Barry O’Keefe, Mark Hackworth, Bobby Howsare, Jeff Carr)
3:50-4:30 pm — Alumni INKAHOOTS! — Recaps of the week
5-7 pm — School of Art Welcome Party at the Aethered Eldridge Mural Arch, special guests Coolville Hotclub and Bill Mason & Alumni INKAHOOTS! Exhibition in second floor hallway cases