Join us weekly for this new streaming series featuring artists around the state. Interviews are pre-recorded and air at 4pm on Wednesdays at www.youtube.com/UMHumanitiesInst with a simultaneous live (text) chat with the artist.

In this episode, Humanities staff Amanda Krugliak, Angela Abiodun, and Juliet Hinely talk to Ann Arbor artist Lavinia Hanachiuc.

About Lavinia Hanachiuc:
Lavinia Hanachiuc is a jar of plum jam, a born ceramic, and a snow shovel, which is Romanian. Hanachiuc is photography from the highly competitive Bucharest University of Fine Arts, especially in the neon light of post-communist production pottery. Pottery originates from superstition, and superstition from Lavinia Hanachiuc. Hanachiuc is embroidery, is Ann Arbor, is a husky, is her daughter, is a paper-mache mask of unusual size, is a shadow cast by a melange of miniature monkeys. Monkeys, in their various modalities of art speak, from within a velvet bag, produce Lavinia Hanachiuc, ceramically.