Two Visiting Artist Talks at Vermont Studio Center in June 2023

Featuring Stanley Squirewell and Nafis M. White

Vermont Studio Center will host two Visiting Artists Talks in June 2023 as a part of the Visiting Artists and Writers Program.

Visiting Artist, Stanley Squirewell will give an Artist Talk on Friday, June 2, 7:30 – 8:30 PM.

Visiting Artist, Nafis M. White will give an Artist Talk at Vermont Studio Center on Wednesday, June 21, 7:30 – 8:30 pm.

All events are free and open to the public. Both talks will take place in the Lowe Lecture Hall on Main Street in Johnson, VT. Limited seating is available. Contact VSC for more information.

Stan Squirewell was born and raised in Washington, DC and currently lives and works in Louisville, KY. His artistic training began at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts. Since graduating he has continued his tutelage under many of DC's legends including artists Michael Platt and Lou Stovall.

Mr. Squirewell, is a painter, photographer, installation and performance artist. His work is multilayered and his subject matter tackles themes such as: race and memory through mythology, sacred geometry and science. He draws his inspiration from theory books, science fiction movies and novels, avant-garde jazz and indigenous storytelling.

He is a (2007 MFA) graduate of the Hoffberger School of Painting where he studied with the late, Grace Hartigan. Mr. Squirewell is the first winner of the Rush Philanthropic and Bombay Sapphire Artisan series. He has performed with Nick Cave (SoundSuits) at the National Portrait Gallery and Jefferson Pinder with G-Fine Arts. He is privately and publically collected, his works are in the Reginald Lewis Museum, the Robert Steele Collection and recently acquired by the Smithsonian for the African American Museum (2015.)

stansquirewell.com

Nafis M. White is an interdisciplinary, multihyphenate artist whose recent body of works are created from objects commonly found in beauty supply stores, industrial sites and the seemingly limitless horizons of our global and political landscapes. Through weaving, hairdressing, sculpture and installation, White centers the uncanny audacity of self- affirmation and love by means of repetition as a form of change. White is inspired by raw materials and their transformative properties and abilities to tell dynamic stories when in congress. White's formal training is in sculpture, printmaking and digital media. She uses concept as anchor and medium as message in her work moving within conceptual and durational realms. Community engagement, beauty and the political root deep in White's work.

White's work is in the permanent collection of the RISD Museum and University of New Mexico Art Museum, and has been exhibited at The de Young Museum, The RISD Museum, National Queer Arts Festival, The List Gallery at Brown University, New Museum, Goldsmiths University, Autograph ABP, OXO Tower in London, Overture Center for the Arts Madison and the Rhode Island School of Design, among many others. White holds an MFA and BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. She lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island.

nafiswhite.com

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