A Digital Parlor Hosted by Melanie Vote and Guests

Streaming Starts Sunday, April 26th,  3 PM

The next iteration of our popular monthly artist talk series will be delivered as a digital experience augmented with 360 degree exhibition views of “Melanie Vote: Nothing Ever Happened Here”.   The artist, Melanie Vote, has assembled a diverse panel of art and science practitioners to discuss the complexities of the human -land relationship as seen through the lens of her current installation (comprising paintings and site specific work).  

Panelist include David Cohen of artcritical,  Kelly Madigan, poet and NEA awardee and  Doug Chafa, a biologist with the Department of Natural Resources in Iowa.

David Cohen will act as moderator; Cohen is the editor and publisher of artcritical as well as a regular contributor. He is founder-moderator of The Review Panel, the critics' forum hosted by Brooklyn Public Library (formerly National Academy Museum, New York, and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia)A. He was Gallery Director at the New York Studio School from 2001-10 and art critic and contributing editor at the New York Sun from 2003-08.  His books include "Serban Savu" (Hatje Cantz verlag, 2011) and "Alex Katz Collages: A catalogue raisonné" (Colby College Museum of Art, 2005).

Panelist Kelly Madigan is the award-winning author of a collection of poetry, The Edge of Known Things (Stephen F. Austin State University Press) and a how-to book titled Getting Sober: A Practical Guide to Making it Through the First 30 Days (McGraw-Hill) . She is an accomplished poet and essayist whose work has been published in literary magazines and anthologies such as Best New Poets 2007, Crazyhorse, Prairie Schooner, Barrow Street, The Massachusetts Review, Calyx, Natural Bridge and elsewhere

Panelist Doug Chafa is a wildlife biologist for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources and instrumental in the facilitation of the yearly Loess Hills Prairie Seminar.

All are welcome.