Artist Sky Hopinka to give WCMA's Plonsker Lecture
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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Artist Sky Hopinka will give the annual Plonsker Family Lecture on Thursday, April 16, at 6 p.m. at the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA).
The lecture will be preceded by a reception from 5 to 6 p.m.
Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) was born and raised in Ferndale, Washington, and spent a number of years in Palm Springs and Riverside, California; Portland, Oregon; and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In Portland, he studied and taught chinuk wawa, a language indigenous to the Lower Columbia River Basin. His video, photo, and text works center individual experience of Indigenous homeland and landscape and approaches to language. They act as containers of culture expressed through personal and non-fictional forms of media.
The Plonsker Family Lecture Series in Contemporary Art, established in 1994 by Madeleine Plonsker, Harvey Plonsker '61 and their son, Ted Plonsker '86, examines current issues in contemporary art. Past lecturers have included artists Stephanie Syjuco, Arthur Jafa, Lynda Benglis, Kenturah Davis, Cara Romero, and Kerry?James?Marshall.
The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the museum at 413-597-2429 or visit artmuseum.williams.edu.
