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Meet the Maker is a unique opportunity for Halsey Institute Members at the Postmodernist and above levels to meet an artist and learn about their creative process within the intimate setting of the galleries. These quarterly get-togethers create a casual environment in which members connect with each other and the featured artist over wine and heavy hors-d’oeuvres. The Maker is often an upcoming or past exhibiting artist at the Halsey Institute. He or she will give a presentation describing their inspiration, passions, process, and, ultimately, final result. Members are asked to bring “a bottle of wine and an open mind.”
All Meet the Maker events take place at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art unless otherwise noted. Join or renew at the Postmodernist membership level here to be invited to these events.
Invitations to each Meet the Maker are sent via email. For questions or more information please contact us at halsey@cofc.edu or 843-953-5652.
We are excited to have rescheduled this Meet the Maker after it was canceled due to Hurricane Dorian.
Artist presentation begins at 6:00 PM.
This lecture is part of our Meet the Maker series for Postmodernist members and above. To join our membership program, please visit here or call (843) 953-5652.
Coulter Fussell’s early-developed arts view perceives craft and other arts as indistinguishable from one another. Painting, sculpture, and textile work are one solitary entity in her mind. From youth, the combination developed into an unintentional mash-up, resulting in quilts and textile works that defy expectations of the medium. Fussell relies on the no-holds-barred nature of contemporary painting rules to free her compositions from the constraints of pattern. In turn, she simultaneously relies on the strict discipline of traditional craftwork to act as a self-editing tool.
This lecture is part of our Meet the Maker series for Postmodernist members and above. To join our membership program, please visit here or call (843) 953-5652.
Kukuli Velarde is a Peruvian artist based in the United States since 1987. Velarde’s work, consisting of ceramic, painting, drawing, and mixed-media, considers the consequences of colonization and its echoes in contemporary Latin American culture. While Velarde’s work focuses on Latin American history, particularly that of her home country of Perú, she asserts that this historical narrative contains complex universal characteristics that can be understood beyond the frame of its uniqueness.
Velarde has exhibited her work around the globe, from Kansas to Brazil to Taiwan. She has received awards She has received awards and grants such as the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Franz and Virginia Bader Foundation Grant, the Pollock Krasner Foundation grant, the United States Artists-Knight fellowship, the Pew fellowship in Visual Arts, the Anonymous is a Woman award, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation grant, among others.
