Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Pae White makes artwork that emerges from material experimentation, an approach that often pairs high tech and artisanal craft to ephemeral objects and quotidian subjects. Over the past decades she has created an expansive body of work that includes sculpture, painting, site-specific installation, furniture, architecture, and graphic design. Her subjects and imagery might include smoke, color, popcorn, time, plants, moonlight, birdcalls, bugs, and clip art—elements that inspire her “exploration of the neglected, the forgotten, the spaces between things.” Common materials are often used to uncommon ends, for example in the way the artist has made artworks with neon, ceramic, string, birdseed, and glass. In 2023 CMC added White’s Qwalala, an extraordinary glass sculpture, to its campus public art collection.  Join internationally recognized artist Pae White who will discuss her work known for blurring the traditional and often nebulous boundaries between the fine and applied arts, architecture and design. 

Note: A special reception for this event will take place at 5:30 PM at Pae White’s sculpture Qwalala, in CMC's Mid-Quad. At 5:50, registered dinner attendees will move to Eggert Dining Room in the Athenaeum for dinner. The talk, open to the public, will begin at 6:45 PM.