Please join studio art alumna Jennifer Ray ’07 for this lecture focused on her artistic practice after Oberlin. The Studio Art Senior Capstone course prepares our majors to launch into the competitive art world. Meet art department alumni and hear first-hand how they navigated life with a BA in Art. Each alum in this series represents a different career pathway.
Jennifer Ray is an artist, Associate Professor, and soon to be Director of the School of Art, Design & Creative Industries at Wichita State University. Her work examines the complex relationships between human activity and the landscape, exploring themes of marginal subcultures, environment, and cultural identity, and is held in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Ulrich Museum, and the Kinsey Institute. She has exhibited her work widely, including at the RISD Museum of Art, the Chelsea Art Museum, the Salina Art Center, Hyde Part Art Center, and the Indian Photo Festival. She holds an MFA from Columbia College Chicago and a BA from Oberlin College.
Her Pathways talk will touch on the things she's done right and the many things she's done wrong trying to figure out a life in academia and the arts. She'll talk about the power and permissions of wielding a camera, and her discovery of the limitations of that perceived invincibility in a Cuban detention cell. In this time of defunded everything and rising authoritarianism, how and why do we persist in the arts and education?
This event is presented with support from the Ellen H. Johnson Endowment for Contemporary Art.
Open to all members of the public
