Join exhibiting artist Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees and playwright Virginia Grise for a public conversation about TwoTrees’s Travelogue Series, on view this fall at Art Galleries at Black Studies.
They will explore the conceptual foundations for Travelogue Series—how time moves in our lives, the role of Spirit in all that we do, and how art weaves through these experiences. TwoTrees and Grise will pose questions to one another and encourage open exchange with interested interested audience members.
About the Facilitators:
Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees is a self-taught artist who has spent a life at the crossroads where species, cultures, beliefs and the unknown collide and find both dissonance and resonance. Her work helps humans re-orient to our indigenous mind and regenerate our essential relationship with the Earth’s wisdom. She is a past recipient of the Lila Wallace International Artist Award and her work has been exhibited and is in collections in the US, Europe and New Zealand. She has been Artist in Residence for the The Vermont Network for Domestic Violence, a Whistenton Public Scholar at the Kettering Foundation and faculty in the Leadership in Sustainability Masters Program/University of Vermont Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources.
From panzas to prisons, from street theatre to large-scale multimedia performances, from princess to chafa – Virginia Grise writes plays that are set in bars without windows, barrio rooftops, and lesbian bedrooms.
Her published work includes Your Healing is Killing Me (Plays Inverse Press), blu (Yale University Press), The Panza Monologues co-written with Irma Mayorga (University of Texas Press) and an edited volume of Zapatista communiqués titled Conversations with Don Durito (Autonomedia Press). Virginia is a recipient of the Yale Drama Award, Whiting Writers’ Award, the Princess Grace Award in Theatre Directing, and the Jerome Fellowship from the Playwrights Center. She is an alumna of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, the Women's Project Theatre Lab and the NALAC Leadership Institute.
In addition to plays, she has created an interdisciplinary body of work that includes multimedia performance, dance theater, performance installations, guerilla theater, site-specific interventions, and community gatherings. Virginia has taught writing for performance at the university level, as a public school teacher, in community centers, women’s prisons, and in the juvenile correction system. She holds an MFA in Writing for Performance from the California Institute of the Arts and is The Mellon Foundation Playwright in Residence at Cara Mía Theatre in Dallas, Texas and a Matakyev Research Fellow at the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands at Arizona State University.
The exhibition Travelogue Series: Falling Into Language will be on on view in the Idea Lab before and after the conversation.
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