Tanya
Hartman
and
Brian
Hawkins
Lawrence, KS
Tanya Hartman:
Artist Tanya Hartman came of age in New York City, but large portions of her childhood were spent in Cuernavaca, Mexico and London. She earned her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design, and an MFA in painting from Yale University, and she lives and works in Lawrence, KS, where she is Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Art at the University of Kansas. Much of Hartman’s recent work explores the phenomenon of inequality as it occurs in the predicaments and lives of refugees and other recent immigrants to this country.
Brian Hawkins:
Brian Hawkins is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is concerned with the vagaries of memory and historical narratives. Drawing inspiration from the history and folklore of his native state of Missouri, Brian has produced a series of intricate, cut-paper animations. In 2016, his practice expanded into the realm of documentary film, as he began investigating the folktales and traditions of Missouri’s French Creoles, a tiny, prematurely historicized community from which Brian is descended.
In both this documentary and his collaborative work with Tanya Hartman about the experiences of immigrants in the Midwest, Brian explores the dual aspect of America as a nation that welcomes, sometimes begrudgingly, people from all cultures, and America as a place which actively erodes and suppresses those cultures.
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Screening Times:
Thursday, September 6th: Noon - 1 p.m.
Thursday, September 13th: Noon - 1 p.m.
Thursday, September 27th: Noon - 1 p.m.
Thursday, October 4th: Noon - 1 p.m.
Monday, October 15th: 5 - 6 p.m.
Tanya Hartman and Brian Hawkins
Murmurations
Medium: Projection
This video examines the lives and daily minutiae of a range of immigrant children living in the Kansas City region, including individual speakers born in Congo, Guatelama, Rwanda, Honduras, Vietnam and Mexico. Eschewing the charged rhetoric of current public discussion centered on the topic of immigration, the authors focus instead on the individual personalities, speech and behavior of the children themselves, as they attempt to make sense of the trajectory in their lives that has brought them to this place.
Jewish Vocational Services
Screening Times:
Thursday, September 6th: Noon - 1 p.m.
Thursday, September 13th: Noon - 1 p.m.
Thursday, September 27th: Noon - 1 p.m.
Thursday, October 4th: Noon - 1 p.m.
Monday, October 15th: 5 - 6 p.m.
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