Past Events

This presentation by Dr. Krista Thompson is part of a larger book project, which explores how fugitives and the photographic representations surrounding them in Jamaica informed a fugitive sociality, opening up social, political, and representational possibilities for those seeking to reimagine the existing parameters of the colonial and postcolonial state.

Artist talk with UT Austin alumna and metaphysical artist Virginia Lee Montgomery (VLM) presents her intermedia art practice spanning video, performance, sound, and sculpture alongside the panpsychic-intersectional philosophies that inform her art practice, and a her own practical studio tips for empathetic meaning-making in a time of chaos.

Please join us for an artist talk with 2020-2021 St. Elmo Artist-in-residence Dawn Kim. 

The lecture by artist Chis Drury will cover key works over a career spanning more than 40 years starting with Medicine Wheel made in 1982-3 and ending with works about life, death and regeneration using fungi. Drury will cover early works walking in wild places, making shelters and baskets, commissioned works outside, works with biodiversity, cloud Chambers and large woven works, to working with scientists in Antarctica and physicians in hospitals.