Presented by the Schweinfurth Art Center and SDA, Quinn Alexandria Hunter is an interdisciplinary artist from North Carolina whose practice centers on uncovering and unveiling truths – digging into the histories of Black Americans to find spaces and memories that have been lost, erased, or covered. Hunter looks at the way erasure of historic labor and pain is connected to the contemporary, and how it affects the way we view and use the space around us in the present. Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, September 20, 2023, at 2 PM EDT.

More from the Schweinfurth Art Center and Surface Design Association (SDA):

"Quinn Alexandria Hunter is an interdisciplinary artist from North Carolina who completed her MFA work at Ohio University. Her practice centers on uncovering and unveiling truths – digging into the histories of Black Americans to find spaces and memories that have been lost, erased, or covered. Using archival information, she makes work that references specific spaces to bring forth lost stories to contend with the removal of Black bodies from historic and contemporary spaces. Hunter looks at the way erasure of historic labor and pain is connected to the contemporary, and how it affects the way we view and use the space around us in the present. She explores these themes through the use of performance, object making, and spatial intervention. Using art, Hunter talks about remembered pasts, speculative futures, and the liminal present and how history impacts the way we navigate in between spaces – both real and imaginary, erased or forgotten.

Hunter is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art, a recipient of the I. Hollis Parry/Ann Parry Billman Award (2019), 2020 Artist in Residence of the Chautauqua School of Visual Art, the 2020/2021 Wayne State Artist in Residence and The International Sculpture Center’s 2019 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture (2019). Remembered pasts and speculative futures simultaneously living in the past present and future"

This Textile Talk takes place, Wednesday, September 20, 2023, at 2:00 PM Eastern Time. Future installments are held online at 2 p.m. Eastern (11 a.m. Pacific) each Wednesday.

The video will be recorded and will be able to view later.

Click here, or the image below, to register for the Textile Talk.