Artist Presentation: Sculptor Cait Finley at the Missoula Public Library

Join us for an intriguing presentation with Cait Finley, Open AIR Artist-in-Residence at the Missoula Public Library in the Maker Space. The presentation will be followed by refreshments and a chance to mingle and meet the artist. This event is free and open to the public.

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About the artist: Cait Finley is an American artist working in Montana. She/they hopes to solve environmental destruction through pleasure. Her work is about the differences between human perceptions of time, and geological time. Using sculpture, writing, video, and performance, she fantasizes kinships with entities much larger and more nebulous herself. Preferring to think of things like petroleum, capitalism, and global warming as entities in order to see more clearly how they can fit within human narrative timelines. And exploring the ways humans attempt to speed up and slow down geological time to more comfortably align with our corporeal, fleeting understanding of being. Finley received an MFA in Sculpture from Syracuse University in Syracuse NY and a BFA in Ceramics from The University of Montana in Missoula MT. Exhibiting nationally at Art Helix, Brooklyn NY; CB1, Los Angeles CA; Cornell University, Ithaca NY; The Montana Art Museum, Missoula MT, and internationally at Bunsunrad Gallery, Bangkok Thailand and Das Gift, Berlin Germany. She has been the recipient of The Freeman Asia Fellowship, Mansfield Fellowship, and granted artist in residence at The University or Montana in Missoula MT, Anderson Ranch in Snowmass CO, OxBow in Saugatuck MN, as well as the Turner Residency in Los Angeles CA. Finley currently teaches at The University of Montana.