Event
Guest Faculty Lecture: Yana Payusova and Kagen Sound
Jun 22, 2025 7PM-8PM
Schermer Meeting Hall
Sunday and Tuesday evenings, June through September, Anderson Ranch features a slideshow presentation by distinguished faculty members and visiting artists. These insightful talks dive into the artists’ inspiration, their creative process, and more.
This presentation is free and open to the public and is available in person or via livestream.
Registration is appreciated. All on-campus workshop students will be pre-registered for this event.
Speaker
Kagen Sound
Kagen Sound has been a full-time puzzle box maker for 25 years. After studying math in college he gravitated towards the form as an expression of logic and riddles. His puzzle boxes have won numerous awards in the worldwide puzzle collecting community, and are considered an artform that intersects with mechanical puzzles and woodworking.
Yana Payusova
Yana Payusova ,born in Leningrad, USSR, holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Media Arts Practices from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her studio practice — grounded in painting, sculpture, and installation –examines the tension between interior life and collective identity, often through the lenses of power, gender, and cultural displacement. She has exhibited widely in the U.S. and internationally, with recent shows at the Museu de Ceràmica de L’Alcora (Spain), Ceramic Avenue Art Gallery (Jingdezhen, China), Santa Joana Museum (Aveiro, Portugal), Conduit Gallery (Dallas, USA), New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum (Taiwan), and the 63rd Premio Faenza (Italy). Her work is held in the permanent collections of the DeCordova Museum (Lincoln, MA), Boston Public Library (Boston, MA), Museu de Ceràmica de L’Alcora (L’Alcora, Spain), and the Crocker Art Museum (Sacramento, CA). Payusova has been an Artist-in Residence at Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center (Colorado). In 2023, she was commissioned to create an installation for the Real Unreal, Meow Wolf’s fourth permanent exhibition in Grapevine, Texas. She is currently Assistant Profesoor of Practice and FYE Program Chair at the University of Arizona School of Art.
Kagen Sound, Maze Burr
Jun 22, 2025 7PM-8PM
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Patton-Malott Gallery
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The Ranch Café
The Café is available to Ranch students, faculty, and staff only from October through May.
The Café is a social hub where students and visitors gather to discuss ideas, plan for new creative experiences, and reflect on shared teachings. Join us for a beautiful buffet lunch offering fresh salads and rotating hot items.