Black Glass Artists Series Ashley Raye Harris
The Black Glass Artists Series guest artist Ashley Harris will be in Alfred the week of 2/3/2025 with demonstrations, class visits, and artist lectures. Demonstrations will take place in the glass studio no February 4 and 6 from 1:30-3:30pm. A public lecture will be given on February 6 at 4:30pm in Binns-Merrill Hall room 106Demonstrations: February 4 and 6 from 1:30-3:30 in the Glass Studios
Public Lecture: Thursday, February 6, 2025 in Binns Merrill Hall Room 106
Ashley Raye Harris: "I approach my work with a longing desire to unpack the effects of viewing bodies as artifacts. I have been creating fragmented, fragile sculptures that reference bodies rather than replicate. In many ways, I am creating artifacts that change with time, offering glimpses of a larger story and narrative. They offer space to question the role of the body, the understandings and misunderstandings of tone, color and skin. Glass, wood, fire, metal, thread, and natural materials are all used as tools to question the way language is used to describe people and communities. These questions are meant to break apart the contrasting, this or that, approach to understanding BIPOC experiences and lead to intersectional conversations between people."
These events are free and open to the public
Black Glass Artist Series Sponsors: BGAS Fundraising Auction, Sculpture Dimensional Studies, Olympic Color Rods