Julie Anand: Head in the clouds, boots on the ground
Visiting Artist Lecture
February 18th/5pm/Kimbrough 101
Sponsored by the WSU Fine Arts Visiting Artist Committee
Julie Anand holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology with a minor in Geosciences from the University of Arizona and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of New Mexico. She is Associate Professor of Photography in the School of Art and Senior Sustainability Scholar in the Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University. Her art projects often explore material history and issues of interdependency. She has shown her work in over a hundred exhibitions nationally and internationally. She has both a solo practice and has also collaborated with artist Damon Sauer for ten years.
“A teacher introduced me to the power of metaphor when I was eight years old in rural Virginia. During high school, the margins of my natural science class notebooks were filled with ideas for poems inspired by astronomy and biology. In a college geology course we drove up a mountain collecting samples to later reconstruct the story of the land. Later, I studied the pattern of light and dark bands on the shells of a living fossil and proved a seasonal periodicity to those bands—like that of tree rings. I was most impressed with the metaphor underneath the data: the body as a record keeper in dialogue with its environment.” -Julie Anand
