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Open Studio with Kolaj Institute Artist-in-Residence Nate Hester
On Saturday, October 5, 2024, 2-4PM, the public is invited to visit Kolaj Institute Gallery to meet the artist and see how the artwork is progressing. Calling the event “What the Shuck? Volume 2: Gallery Talk, Interpretive Dance, Spoken Word Storytelling & Community Snack”, Nate Hester offers four new monumental, street style works on paper produced during his 2-week residency at the Kolaj Institute alongside ancestral movements and spoken memories by Madera Rogers-Henry and a communal meal of oysters on the half shell on the balcony to follow. The collective meditation will focus on how “bodies” are “crafted” to function in spaces of both oppression and liberation. Can we all dance together?
ABOUT THE ARTIST
During his Solo Residency, North Carolina-based artist Nate Hester will create two large-scale (64×44″) works on paper for the Tokyo International Art Fair. The artist’s trans-disciplinary work (drawings, projected animations, textiles, ceramics, immersive installations of household ephemera, tags, and interactive encounters) explores the charming if disquieting incongruities of the places, communities and bodies to which we all yearn to belong. He will use New Orleans as his inspiration for the work, writing that the city is the “confluence of many natural, political, historic, cultural and ethnic influences.” He will also use his time at Kolaj Institute to investigate the technique of bas-relief paper pulp sculpting.
Event Links
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