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Hanes Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Stan Douglas

Hanes Art Center 121 East Cameron Avenue, Chapel Hill

121 Hanes Art Center Stan Douglas is an artist whose work explores social histories played out through complex cinematic and televisual language. His interest in the social implementation of Western ideas of progress, particularly utopian philosophies, is located in their often divisive political and economic effects. His interrogation of the structural possibilities of film and... Read More →

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Hanes Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Marianne Vitale

Hanes Art Center 121 East Cameron Avenue, Chapel Hill

121 Hanes Art Center Marianne Vitale (b. 1973) is an artist living and working in New York City. She graduated with a BFA from the School of Visual Arts, NY (1996). Her practice combines mediums with a focus on sculpture. She has been described as a surveyor, under-taker, and soothsayer of hard truths, conveyed poetically.... Read More →

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Artist Lecture: Taro Takizawa

Hanes Art Center 121 East Cameron Avenue, Chapel Hill

Taro Takizawa is an artist who focuses on printmaking, wall vinyl installations, drawings and 2D designs. He is fascinated with blending the boundaries of contemporary studio practice and traditional processes, printmaking and installations, influenced by traditional Japanese patterns from textile designs, architecture and crafts. Taro is currently visiting faculty in the Department of Art and... Read More →

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Hanes Visiting Artist Lecture Series: John Hitchcock

Hanes Art Center 121 East Cameron Avenue, Chapel Hill

John Hitchcock is a contemporary artist and musician based out of Madison, Wisconsin, and originally from Medicine Park, Oklahoma. He currently works in multimedia including neon, textiles, printmaking, sound, and video to reclaim narratives of resilience and survival. He uses visual storytelling to understand his relationships to community, land, and culture. Hitchcock’s artwork consists of... Read More →

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John and June Allcott Gallery: Wendy DesChene, Kawii Otinum

Hanes Art Center 121 East Cameron Avenue, Chapel Hill

Reception and gallery talk: January 23, 5-7 pm Artist Statement "Kawii Otinum" translates to "Reclaim" in Michif, the distinctive language of the native Métis in North America. Although only recently officially acknowledged by the Canadian government following years of suppression, the Métis Nation is fervently reclaiming its rich cultural heritage. The recent acknowledgment of my... Read More →

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Hanes Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Sandra Monterroso

Hanes Art Center 121 East Cameron Avenue, Chapel Hill

“Decolonial Threads” 121 Hanes Art Center “For the woman of my race, my spirit will speak” Gloria Anzaldua Sandra Moterroso considers herself a multimedia artist because she works in different media, however something is always present in all her artistic practice "performance"; the action of placing the “body” in a conscious state in relation to... Read More →

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John and June Allcott Gallery: Xuewu Zheng, One’s Religion

Hanes Art Center 121 East Cameron Avenue, Chapel Hill

Reception and gallery talk: October 24, 5:00-7:00 pm, with the talk starting at 6:00 pm--on that evening, there will be a one-night-only installation of his work Century Text Xeuwu Zheng examines history and contemporary experiences in a very personal way and thinks about the cultural relationships between the East and the West. He integrates philosophy,... Read More →

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Hanes Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Devan Shimoyama

Hanes Art Center 121 East Cameron Avenue, Chapel Hill

Central themes in Shimoyama's practice stem from his personal perspective on and experience with the Black queer male body. By asserting vibrant queer bodies in his works, he acknowledges the political aspects of being queer in this society. In some works, including his Barbershop series, he goes further to address the position of being queer... Read More →

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John and June Allcott Gallery: Antoine Williams, Something in the Way of Things

Hanes Art Center 121 East Cameron Avenue, Chapel Hill

Reception: September 12th, 5-7 pm with gallery talk at 6 pm Artist Statement: My interdisciplinary practice utilizes critical studies and the surreal to explore ways in which Black physical, mental, and emotional states of being exist within and subvert the status-quo. I work with the notion of society as monstrous to question themes of power... Read More →

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Hanes Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Abigail DeVille

Hanes Art Center 121 East Cameron Avenue, Chapel Hill

Abigail DeVille’s most recent solo exhibition was Light of Freedom, organized by Madison Square Park Conservancy (2020-21), and traveled to the Momentary at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR (2021) and the Hirshhorn Museum Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (2021-22). Other commissions and solo museum shows include The American Future, Portland Institute for Contemporary... Read More →