Upcoming Events
Natalie Ball, Visiting Artist Lecture
Monday, March 4 at 4:00 PM
Visual Arts Complex, Auditorium 1B20
Natalie Ball (Black, Modoc, and Klamath) is a multidisciplinary installation artist who works from her ancestral homelands in the rural community of Chiloquin, OR (Klamath County). As a young woman, she learned quilt making from her aunt, which has fueled a continual practice of challenging assumptions regarding materials, including the loaded politics and power of matrilineal craft. Often mining found objects for her installations, Ball perennially incorporates seemingly incongruous materials into provocative objects that both carry their own stories while inviting dialogue with viewers.
Natalie Ball was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. Ball has a Bachelor’s degree with a double major in Indigenous, Race & Ethnic Studies and Art from the University of Oregon. She furthered her education in Aotearoa (New Zealand) at Massey University where she obtained her Master’s degree with a focus on Indigenous contemporary art. She then relocated to her ancestral Homelands in Southern Oregon/Northern California to raise her three children. In 2018, Natalie earned her MFA in Painting & Printmaking at the Yale School of Art. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally and is the recipient of several awards including the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation’s Oregon Native Arts Fellowship (2021), The Ford Family Foundation’s Hallie Ford Fellowship (2020), and the Joan Mitchell Painters & Sculptors Grant (2020). Ball is an elected official serving on the Klamath Tribes Tribal Council.
Female Pioneers of Contemporary Art in Tokyo
Monday, March 11, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Visual Arts Complex, Auditorium 1B20
Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture: Naoko Seki
Professor of Letters, Arts and Sciences at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Naoko Seki served as a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo for 25 years, where she specialized in organizing exhibitions featuring modern and contemporary Japanese, American, and European art. Her most recent contribution can be found in the exhibition catalog for Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind (London: Tate Modern, 2024).
