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 Grand Rapids artist Mandy Cano Villalobos.

About Mandy Cano Villalobos
Mandy Cano Villalobos is an interdisciplinary artist whose projects span installation, painting, drawing, performance, sculpture and video. She has exhibited with drj (Berlin, Germany), Van Der Plas Gallery (New York, NY), the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum (Clinton, NY), Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore, MD), the Ukranian Institute of Modern Art, (Chicago), The Museum of New Art (Detroit, MI), Hillyer Art Space (Washington, DC), Gray Contemporary (Houston, TX) and La Casa Pauly (Puerto Montt, Chile), among others. She has been an artist-in-residence at Vermont Studio Center, Art Omi, Post Contemporary, Wassaic Project, Ragdale, and ACRE. Cano Villalobos received her MFA from The George Washington University in Washington, DC. and currently resides in Grand Rapids, MI.

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.