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All of Sitka's Resident Talks are recorded and posted to Sitka Center's YouTube channel.
Resident Talk
Thursday, March 30, 2023
4-5:30pm PST
This event is free and held online via Zoom
Pre-registration required
Join us live via Zoom for the next Sitka Resident Talk of 2023. Enjoy brief 10-minute presentations from seven practitioners working and living in residence at Sitka Center this spring: Daisy Braun, Carolyn Hazel Drake, Karina Hurtado-Ocampo, Annette Bauer, Naoe Suzuki, Morgan Thomas and Suze Woolf. Come learn about their work and give them a warm Sitka Community welcome in March.
Open Studio Event at Sitka Center
Drop in on Friday, March 31, 2-5pm
Current Sitka residents are planning to host an open house and studio tour at Sitka on March 31, 2-5pm.
This open studio event will include an opportunity to contribute to Flow, an ongoing community-engagement and participatory project about water, created by Naoe Suzuki, a Japanese American visual artist based in the Boston area. Suzuki invites viewers to respond to this project via the question, “What is your relationship with water?”
Black Art/Ists Project Resident Talk
Tuesday, May 4, 2023
4-5:30pm PST
This event is free and held online via Zoom
Pre-registration required
Join us live via Zoom for the final Sitka Resident Talk of 2023. This talk features a collaborative cohort of Black artists curated by 2021 Sitka Resident and Portland-based photographer, dancer and poet Intisar Abioto. This group residency is part of Abioto’s Black Art/Ists project and will help inform the Portland Art Museum’s Black Artists of Oregon exhibition, scheduled for June-December 2023 and guest-curated by Abioto. Enjoy brief 10-minute presentations from six of these practitioners working and living in residence at Sitka Center this spring: Intisar Abioto, Licity Collins, Liz Fouther-Branch, Akela Jaffi, Melanie Stevens and Sharita Towne. Come learn about their work and give them a warm Sitka Community welcome in May.
Spring Keynote with Walter Kitundu
Thursday, May 18, 2023
4-5:30pm PST
This event is free and held online via Zoom
Pre-registration required
Kitundu will share his journey from building hand-made turntable instruments to creating large scale public art work in collaboration with community. He will discuss how genuine partnerships with communities generate richer outcomes at the expense of predictability and how public art agencies should cultivate this mode of working, our relationship to tools and how they may constrain our imaginations, the importance of questioning value, surrendering control and what we can learn from birds about how to improvise.
