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Jeanne Medina Le Lecture

October 21, 2022 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

PNCA’s MFA in Applied Craft Design Program welcomes artist Jeanne Medina Le for a lecture on her work and practice

Jeanne Medina Le is an LA-based artist who uses textile, the body, and installation to perform artistic research. She considers her production a continuous process that attempts to learn and decolonize the fixed and fluid spaces of her Filipina-American identity. She is interested in the language, meaning, and knowledge embodied in textiles which are subject to time. Jeanne is Assistant Professor in 3D Media / Fiber Program Head at California State University Long Beach.

Jeanne received her BFA in Fiber and Material Studies (2001) and Post-Baccalaureate in Fashion, Body and Garment (2009) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), and her MFA in Fiber (2013) from Cranbrook Academy of Art where she was awarded the Toby Devan Lewis Award. The award enabled her to pursue research in Antwerp, Belgium at the ModeMuseum (MoMu), and to work with fashion designer, Christian Wijnants. In 2018 she was awarded the Fountainhead Fellowship in Craft & Material Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). There she worked with the Highland Support Project and fair-trade weaving organization, Pixan, in Xela, Guatemala to develop textile designs with indigenous Mayan weavers. Her collaborations include a 2019 Bessie Award-winning project with choreographer, Ni’Ja Whitson. She has been Artist-in-Residence at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Caldera, Oak Spring Garden Foundation, and Pine Meadow Ranch. Jeanne served as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Fibers at Oregon College of Art and Craft (OCAC) in Portland, OR.

Her exhibitions include Interpretive Center for Embodied Textiles solo-exhibition at the Alice Gallery in Seattle; GARB at ArtCenter Pasadena; International Fiber Art Fair in Seoul, Korea; Ancestral Offerings solo-exhibition at Reynolds Gallery in Richmond, VA; and Discursive at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum in Eugene, OR. Her work is in the permanent collection at Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, MI and the Oak Spring Garden Foundation Rachel “Bunny” Mellon Collection in Upperville, VA.

This event is part of the Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies Lecture Series.

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Date:
October 21, 2022
Time:
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
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Event Registration:
pncaevents.willamette.edu/e/3162

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MFA in Applied Craft + Design at the Pacific Northwest College of Art at Willamette University
Jeanne Medina Le

Venue

PNCA Mediateque
511 NW Broadway
Portland, Oregon 97209 United States

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