Guest Faculty Lecture: Letha Wilson and Yana Payusova

Sep 12, 2021 7PM-8PM

Schermer Meeting Hall

Sunday and Tuesday evenings, June through September, the Ranch features a 60-minute presentation by distinguished faculty members and Visiting Artists. These insightful talks dive into inspiration, the creative process and more.

This presentation is free and open to the public, however registration is required for in-person attendance. All on-campus workshop students will be pre-registered for this event.

Can’t make it in person? CLICK HERE for a livestream YouTube link to view the program virtually.

Speaker

Letha Wilson

Letha Wilson was raised in Colorado, and is currently based in Craryville and Brooklyn, NY. She earned her MFA from Hunter College and attended Skowhegan. She is represented by Higher Pictures Generation in New York and GRIMM Gallery in Amsterdam and New York. She has recently shown work at MASS MoCA and DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum.

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Yana Payusova

Yana Payusova was born in 1979 in Leningrad, USSR. She received an MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Payusova’s paintings and sculptures blend the styles and symbols of folk art, Russian icons, graphic poster art, illustration, and comics, and reflect Payusova’s cultural heritage and her training in traditional Russian realist painting. Payusova exhibits both nationally and internationally, including recent venues at the Northern Clay Center, Howard Yezerski Gallery, and Tucson Museum of Art. Payusova will participate in a residency at the Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center in Denmark in 2021. Payusova is an Assistant Professor of Painting in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Arlington.

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