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Object Lesson
March 1, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Object Lesson | Keun Ho Peter Park | Fri. March 1, 2019 | 6 – 6:30 pm | The Center for Art in Wood Museum Collection
FREE
Object Lesson is a monthly First Friday speaker series that will open wide the cases of the Center’s Museum Collection through the perspectives of individuals from the worlds of art, design, performance, community activism, education, and more, creating fresh dialogues about the Collection and its objects. The series invites the public for an up-close and personal experience in an informal, discursive setting that will encourage exploration of the many treasures in the Collection.
Keunho Peter Park is an international artist, woodworker, and instrument maker who teaches at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He holds a B.F.A in painting from South Korea’s Kookmin University and a 2013 M.F.A. in Woodworking and Furniture Design from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Among other honors, Peter won a 2015 Wharton Esherick award at the Philadelphia Museum of Art craft show and served as a Windgate resident artist at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Object Lesson Schedule:
April 5, 2019 – Anne Ishii, Executive Director of Asian Arts Initiative
June 7, 2019 – Dominique Ellis Artist, Writer and Gallery Coordinator at The Clay Studio