Monday, March 5, 2018, 11:30 AM – 1 PM EST

Katherine Mitchell, Artist, Senior Lecturer Emerita, Visual Arts Department

“Hearing the Trees: Works from an Exhibition”

Katherine will speak about works from her recent exhibition at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts at Appalachian State University, an exhibition funded in part by one of the Bianchi Grants awarded by the Emeritus College. The original inspiration for these two-dimensional mixed media drawings and paintings was a beloved white oak on her property that had become diseased. The works serve as talismans for the tree, for Katherine herself, and for all of the endangered environment.

As always, these works show Katherine’s interest in architectural form, and the layering of systems and patterns, as well as her interest in the natural world. In this case, the layers include texts taken from her journals, from poetry, and from various prose readings, including quotations from Henry David Thoreau, Gregory Bateson, and others.

In the fall, the exhibition will be on view again at the Circle Gallery at the University of Georgia. We of the EUEC hope to arrange a field trip for those who’d like to see it.