Women in Craft Series
Visiting Artist – Alisa Holen
Alisa Holen will be visiting Oxford this February and speaking at two events as part of an event series ‘Women in Craft’ led by Shawanda Corbett, a DPhil Art Student studying at the Ruskin School of Art and Wadham College, as part of the Humanities Cultural Programme Project Fund.
Alisa is an artist and educator who earned an MA and an MFA in Ceramics from the University of Iowa in Iowa City. She has since taught ceramics and sculpture at numerous institutions including University of Iowa, University of Nebraska, Omaha, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse and Mississippi University for Women. She is currently an associate professor of art at the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville, IN. Alisa is an enthusiastic advocate for using art to engage the community and organizes yearly Empty Bowls events to raise money for local charities and to introduce people to working with clay. Her functional ceramic work focuses on formal and metaphorical relationships, often staging forms in postures of dependency, elevation, support, aggression or comfort.
For more information about Alisa, and her work, please visit: www.alholenceramics.com.
Empty Bowls Presentation
Friday 7th February, 3.00-4.00pm
Gillese Badun Theatre (Wadham College)
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This talk will focus on Alisa’s involvement with the Empty Bowls project. An empty bowls workshop will follow later this term, led by Shawanda Corbett. More details will follow.
