Presented By: Institute for the Humanities
House Calls: Virtual Studio Visits with Michigan Artists in a Pandemic
Levon Kafafian
Join us weekly for this streaming series featuring artists around the state. Episodes air at 4pm, with simultaneous live YouTube chat (text) with the artist. Watch at https://youtu.be/-jJhbSqbanw
In this final episode of House Calls, Detroit-based weaver, writer, and performer Levon Kafafian talks with Institute for the Humanities staff Amanda Krugliak, Angela Abiodun, and Juliet Hinely about textiles as a means of time travel, being a "weaver of people" to connect communities and resources, and why saying "I'm fine" is no longer a useful phrase.
About Levon Kafafian
Levon Kafafian creates tactile and sensory works on the threshold of transition, applying the process of weaving beyond thread into visual, performative and social practice. Kafafian practices in the Detroit community through the use of textile craft, ancestral lifeways and magical experience. Kafafian is co-creative director of Fringe Society, an artist collective that creates hybrid, experimental works toward a more just and equitable future. In 2020 Kafafian’s work moves further into critical and speculative discourse on queering ancestral practices. Kafafian holds a BFA in crafts: fibers from the College for Creative Studies and a BA in anthropology from Wayne State University.
House Calls Artist Lineup
4/15 - Sarah Rose Sharp, Detroit
4/22 - Sajeev Visweswaran, Ann Arbor and New Delhi, India
4/29 - Judy Bowman, Romulus
5/06 - Mandy Cano Villalobos, Grand Rapids
5/13 - Lavinia Hanachiuc, Ann Arbor
5/20 - Rashaun Rucker, Detroit
5/27 - Yen Azzaro, Ypsilanti
6/3 - Ricky Weaver, Ypsilanti
6/10 - Ijania Cortez, Detroit
6/17 - Levon Kafafian, Detroit
This series was made possible by a generous grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
In this final episode of House Calls, Detroit-based weaver, writer, and performer Levon Kafafian talks with Institute for the Humanities staff Amanda Krugliak, Angela Abiodun, and Juliet Hinely about textiles as a means of time travel, being a "weaver of people" to connect communities and resources, and why saying "I'm fine" is no longer a useful phrase.
About Levon Kafafian
Levon Kafafian creates tactile and sensory works on the threshold of transition, applying the process of weaving beyond thread into visual, performative and social practice. Kafafian practices in the Detroit community through the use of textile craft, ancestral lifeways and magical experience. Kafafian is co-creative director of Fringe Society, an artist collective that creates hybrid, experimental works toward a more just and equitable future. In 2020 Kafafian’s work moves further into critical and speculative discourse on queering ancestral practices. Kafafian holds a BFA in crafts: fibers from the College for Creative Studies and a BA in anthropology from Wayne State University.
House Calls Artist Lineup
4/15 - Sarah Rose Sharp, Detroit
4/22 - Sajeev Visweswaran, Ann Arbor and New Delhi, India
4/29 - Judy Bowman, Romulus
5/06 - Mandy Cano Villalobos, Grand Rapids
5/13 - Lavinia Hanachiuc, Ann Arbor
5/20 - Rashaun Rucker, Detroit
5/27 - Yen Azzaro, Ypsilanti
6/3 - Ricky Weaver, Ypsilanti
6/10 - Ijania Cortez, Detroit
6/17 - Levon Kafafian, Detroit
This series was made possible by a generous grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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