Exploring the Art of Kusama
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Tuesday, Mar 7, 2023 6pm - 7pm
Location
Flagstaff City-Coconino County Public Library
300 West Aspen Ave
Details
Explore the work of great artists with us on the 1st Tuesday of every month. This month's artist is Kusama.
Yayoi Kusama's life is a poignant testament to the healing power of art as well as a study in human resilience. Plagued by mental illness as a child, and thoroughly abused by a callous mother, the young artist persevered by using her hallucinations and personal obsessions as fodder for prolific artistic output in various disciplines. This has informed a lifelong commitment to creativity at all costs despite the artist's birth into a traditional, female-effacing Japanese culture and her career's coming of age in the male-dominated New York art scene. Today, Kusama reigns as one of the most unique and famous contemporary female artists, operating from her self-imposed home in a mental hospital.
This program will be held in-person in the Downtown Library Community Room and virtually on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81071700032
To request a reasonable accommodation for any type of disability, please call 928-213-2330. Three days prior notice is requested.
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