Fires Near Me: 2020 MAPC Research & Travel Awardees

Exhibition of artworks by Anna Haglin, Acadia Kandora, and Emily Harter

Description

Anna Haglin is an artist and educator based in Minneapolis, MN. She runs a project called Paper Plains for which she travels to rural and low-income communities to teach papermaking workshops that are free to the public. She also teaches bookbinding, printmaking, and papermaking at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts.

Acadia Kandora is a printmaker, educator, rock collector, and nature enthusiast. She holds an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Arkansas and a BFA with concentrations in Graphic Design and Sculpture from Shepherd University. She has exhibited nationally and internationally in cities such as Baltimore, Indianapolis, Bentonville, and Korpo, Finland. Her work explores her relationship to nature, the idea of nature as armor, nature as sanctuary, and the intersection between the imaginary & the concrete. She is currently a full-time printmaking instructor at the University of Arkansas.

Emily Harter is an interdisciplinary artist based in Chicago, IL. Influenced by convergent backgrounds in painting, printmaking and art history, her work depicts worlds populated by hedonistic shape-shifters and ruled by cartoon logic. Drawing from, and at times directly quoting, a wide array of references, including antique-mall kitsch, 16th century European tapestries, the satirical prints of Hogarth and Daumier, and Golden Age animation, she aims to interrogate identity and obligation, the absurdity and banality of violence, and that ol’ horizon of desire.

Hours

9am-6pm Thursday-Saturday

9am-12pm Sunday

Reception

1:30-3:30pm Thursday October 13

Location

Glass Gallery II

Center for Visual Arts 2nd floor

Kent State University

Wearing face coverings and being up-to-date on Covid-19 vaccinations are strongly recommended at this location.