Nicole Awai (A '97) will commence her Resident Faculty Artist Lecture on Friday, June 14, 7:30 pm at Skowhegan’s Campus in Madison, Maine.

The Barbara Lee Lectures Series have been a core part of Skowhegan summers and the school’s pedagogical framework. An intangible legacy connected to the idea of ​​transference of knowledge and mutual learning. Since 1952, these lectures have been recorded and collected within the Skowhegan Lecture Archive, an extraordinary trove of artists’ voices captured in the uniquely intimate setting of campus.

You can always contact us at mail@skowheganart.org if you have any questions. Assistive listening devices are available if you call to reserve a headset at least 24 hours prior to the lecture.

Learn more about Nicole below:

Nicole Awai was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and lives and works in New York. Awai earned her master’s degree in Multimedia Art from the University of South Florida in 1996.  Awai’s multimedia, expansive painting and process works have often responded to the social, cultural, and economic interaction and histories of the Americas. Recent works that addressed the history and removal of Confederate and Colonial monuments in the Americas were featured in the New York Times newspaper editorial, Op-Art: Monuments for a New Era, followed by in the High Line Network Initiative’s exhibition, New Monuments for a New Cities, Monument Lab podcast, and the exhibition Citizenship: A Practice of Society at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. There has long been the presence of oozing materiality in Awai’s work that metaphorically is simultaneously the site of generation, destruction and rebirth and materially is the physical abundant resources of the Americas which includes the Black, Brown, and Yellow bodies that labored in its creation.

Awai has been a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant, an Art Matters Grant, and the inaugural Colene Brown Art Prize. Her work has been included in seminal exhibitions at such institutions as PS1 MOMA, the Brooklyn Museum, the Queens Museum, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the California African American Museum, The Chinese American Museum LA, the Museum of Latin American Art Long Beach, The Delaware Art Museum, The Vilcek Foundation, the Biennale of Ceramic in Contemporary Art, and the Busan Biennale.