Presented By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia
WCEE Lecture. Artists Talk & Reception for Guardian Passage
Irina Bondarenko, artist and researcher, University of Michigan; Katya Lisova, artist and lecturer, Mykhailo Boichuk Kyiv State Academy of Decorative Applied Arts and Design
This lecture will be offered in both in-person and virtual formats. If you would like to attend via Zoom, please register at https://myumi.ch/Dw37y
Presented in association with UMS.
Join the artists of Guardian Passage in conversation about the project and its origins. Irina Bondarenko will present on her installation of ceramics, interpreting motanka dolls as guardian figures in the context of the war, and the relationship between poetry and graphic illustration. Katya Lisova will discuss her tapestries of embroidered art on photo-collage, and how archival imagery and folk motifs interface with contemporary photos from the war. Both will reflect on their positionality as Ukrainian artists working and exhibiting in Europe and North America in a period of turbulence and uncertainty in their homeland. There will be time for Q & A. The Artists’ Talk will be followed by a reception in the gallery. Refreshments will be provided. This event is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”
Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.
Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/
Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.
Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums
If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
Presented in association with UMS.
Join the artists of Guardian Passage in conversation about the project and its origins. Irina Bondarenko will present on her installation of ceramics, interpreting motanka dolls as guardian figures in the context of the war, and the relationship between poetry and graphic illustration. Katya Lisova will discuss her tapestries of embroidered art on photo-collage, and how archival imagery and folk motifs interface with contemporary photos from the war. Both will reflect on their positionality as Ukrainian artists working and exhibiting in Europe and North America in a period of turbulence and uncertainty in their homeland. There will be time for Q & A. The Artists’ Talk will be followed by a reception in the gallery. Refreshments will be provided. This event is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”
Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.
Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/
Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.
Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums
If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
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