Join local artist Marilyn Lysohir on Thursday, Feb. 6, from 4–5:30 p.m., to learn about the history of chocolate and how it has influenced her artistic practice. Lysohir’s first job was at a candy store in Pennsylvania and she took a break from her art career to start Cowgirl Chocolates in Moscow, ID in the mid-1990s. Lysohir’s life-sized ceramic work Bad Manners (Version 2) is currently on view as part our 50th anniversary exhibition, Your Collection: Faculty Remix, on view Jan. 14 through June 28.
Come for the talk, stay for a bite of complimentary chocolate and a coupon to Moscow Candy — just in time for Valentine’s Day. Moscow Candy is co-owned by Lysohir and Carise Skinner.
About: Marilyn Lysohir was born in the rust belt town of Sharon, Pennsylvania, and earned a bachelor’s degree at Ohio Northern University 1972. She moved to Pullman, Washington, to attend graduate school at Washington State University and earned her MFA in 1979. Her first solo exhibition was in 1984 in Los Angeles, where she showed a major ceramic installation, Bad Manners (Version 1). Lysohir was adjunct professor at WSU Pullman from 1979–1985. Her list of accolades includes lectures, workshops, and two Kohler Factory Arts in Industry Program residences.
Location: The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is located in the Crimson Cube (on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium and the CUB) on the WSU Pullman campus.
