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SEP 3 | J. LEIGH GARCIA | VIGILANTES Major events in Texas history such as the MexicanAmerican War, Battle of the Alamo, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and Bracero Program have created a complex relationship between J. Leigh Garcia’s two cultures: Texans and Mexicans. The residual racial discord that has resulted from these historical moments—particularly, the racialization and displacement of unauthorized Latinx immigrants—is both the context and focus of her work. Through printmaking, papermaking, installation, and socially engaged art, Garcia encourages awareness of our current immigration and foreign affairs policies through the lens of her biracial cultural identity. J. Leigh Garcia is an artist born and raised in Dallas, TX. Garcia received Master of Fine Arts and Master of Arts degrees from the University of WisconsinMadison, and Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in printmaking from The University of North Texas. Garcia is currently a Print Media and Photography Professor at Kent State University in Kent, OH. [jleighgarcia.com]
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SEP 17 | JIM ARENDT | PIERCED & MENDED: LESSONS IN PERSISTENCE Jim Arendt is an Associate Professor of Visual Arts and Gallery Director at Coastal Carolina University. He received his BFA from Kendall College of Art & Design and his MFA from the University of South Carolina. He has participated in residency programs including The Fields Project in Illinois, Arrowmont’s Tactility Forum, and From Waste to Art VI in Baku, Azerbaijan. His work is exhibited internationally in numerous group and solo shows. Recently, Arendt received First Prize during Fiberarts International 2019, was short-listed for The 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art and a 2018 finalist for the Elizabeth R. Raphael Founder’s Prize, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA. He has received the South Carolina Arts Commission Visual Artist Fellowship 2014 and his work received the $50,000 top prize at ArtFields 2013. His work was chosen for the 2013 Museum Rijswijk Textile Biennial, Netherlands, and he has work included in the Arkansas Art Center’s permanent collection of contemporary craft. He is an artist whose work explores the shifting paradigms of labor and place through narrative figure painting, drawing, prints, fabric and sculpture. Influenced by the radical reshaping of the rural and industrial landscapes he grew up in, he investigates how individual lives are affected by transitions in economic structures. [JimArendt.com]
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