Artist-in-Residence Online Interviews LIVE from American Prairie!
Featuring Brandon Reintjes, Melissa Kwasny, and Delia Touché
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When: Monday, October 16, Noon
Place: Online via Zoom
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About:
Open AIR and American Prairie are thrilled to present a conversation with Fall Resident Artists Brandon Reintjes, Melissa Kwasny, and Delia Touché. The artists have been in residence during the month of October. Join us online to meet the artists and hear about their experiences at American Prairie!
Cost: Free! Registration is required.
About the Artists:
Melissa Kwasny is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Where Outside the Body is the Soul Today (Pacific Northwest Poetry Series, University of Washington Press) and the forthcoming The Cloud Path (Milkweed Editions), as well as a collection of essays Earth Recitals: Essays on Image and Vision. Her first full-length nonfiction book, Putting on the Dog: The Animal Origins of What We Wear, explores the cultural, labor, and environmental histories of clothing materials provided by animals. She is also the editor of two anthologies: I Go to the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poets in Defense of Global Human Rights and Toward the Open Field: Poets on the Art of Poetry 1800-1950. She was Montana Poet Laureate from 2019-2021, a position she shared with M.L. Smoker. Kwasny is the recipient of the Poetry Society of America's Cecil Hemley Award and Alice Fay di Castognola Award for a work in progress, an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellowship, the Montana Art Council's Artist's Innovation Award, and residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Hedgebrook, Ucross, and the Headlands Center for the Arts. She has taught poetry as a visiting writer at both the undergraduate and graduate level, including MFA programs at the University of Wyoming, Eastern Washington University/Inland Pacific Center for Writers, and the University of Montana. She lives in southwestern Montana.
Brandon Reintjes was born in Bozeman, Montana, and grew up in Northern Michigan. He received a BFA in fine arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MA in curatorial and critical studies from the University of Louisville. He works as a senior curator at the Missoula Art Museum and spends the majority of his time thinking about, looking at, and making art. He has exhibited at the Zootown Arts Community Center and the Brink Gallery in Missoula, MT; Luminary Arts Center in St. Louis, MO; the 930 in Louisville, KY; Turman Larison Contemporary in Helena, Aunt Dofe's Hall of Recent Memory in Willow Creek, MT; with exhibitions in 2023 planned for Aunt Dofe's Gallery and Northcutt Steele Gallery in Billings, MT.
Delia Touché (b. 1994, Devils Lake, ND) is based in the Midwest and has exhibited in the United States at venues such as M Contemporary Art (Ferndale, MI), Plains Art Museum (Fargo, ND), The Art Galleries at Austin Community College (Austin, TX) among others. Delia has work in the permanent art collection of the University of North Dakota. She holds a BFA from Minnesota State University Moorhead and an MFA in Print media from Cranbrook Academy of Art, where she received the Gilbert Fellowship.
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