“Conscience and Consciousness” with Marnie Powers-Torrey, John Halaka, and Joe Yorty
Sun, Dec 18
|Virtual Event
VIRTUAL event via zoom. RSVP for link. The artists will talk about their creative processes, show examples of their work, and discuss the piece they created for the exhibit. Talks will be about 20 minutes long with time for Q & A.
Time & Location
Dec 18, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EST
Virtual Event
About the Event
MARNIE POWERS-TORREY
Marnie Powers-Torrey holds an MFA in Photography from the University of Utah and a BA in English and Philosophy from Boston College. Marnie is a librarian at the Marriott Library where she serves as Director of the Book Arts Program & Red Butte Press. She is the faculty mentor for book arts designations and teaches letterpress, bookmaking, artists’ books, and other courses for the Book Arts Program and elsewhere. Marnie identifies primarily as a book artist, and her book work is held in collections across the nation.
JOHN HALAKA
John Halaka’s art projects incorporate drawing, painting, photography, and oral history. His images serve as visual meditations on experiences of indigenous survival, creative resistance, and cultural persistence in the face of settler-colonial erasure. Halaka’s artwork is produced as a result of an extended personal engagement with marginalized communities and is designed to provide an arena for both the participants…