The Arts at CIIS: 2011-12 Exhibitions
Yehudhith and The Grandfathers
Nov 4 2011 - Jan 29 2012Elliot Ross’s portraits of contemporary Jewish women paired with Carolyn Radlo and Alanna Simone’s fifteen-part video meditation on identity, place, projection, and recollection.
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June Yong Lee: The Torso Series
Nov 10 2011 - Jan 29 2012In his Torso Series from 2010, June Yong Lee creates photographic images intimately and arrestingly corporeal.
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Laramie: A Gem City Atlas
Dec 8 2011 - Jan 22 2012University of Wyoming Creative Writing students collaborated with artist/cartographers Shizue Seigel and Ben Pease to create an atlas of Laramie.
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Omar Pimienta: Translation
Jan 27 2012 - Mar 17 2012Across two languages and two nations. A perpetual shift between images that relate to words, words that relate to objects, objects that relate to time.
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Ali Dadgar: Radiant States: Reflections on Solidarity
Feb 3 2012 - Mar 31 2012We are collectively mesmerized by images of protesters standing weaponless in front of an armed military, bathed in the radiant and penetrating light of solidarity.
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Viva Paredes: Ceremonias Nocturnas
Feb 3 2012 - Mar 31 2012At the intersection of mythology, ethnobotany, art, and spirituality, Viva Paredes explores and celebrates the work of Mexican curandera María Sabina.
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Feb 7 2012A reception with artist Ali Dadgar, and a conversation with Noura Khouri and Shimaa Helmy, who will show slides and video from the Egyptian revolution.
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Feb 29 2012A conversation about entheogenics and sacred healing practices.
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Mar 3 2012Poetry reading and reception with artist Omar Pimienta.
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