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The first stop of Artist Trust on Tour, a five-city tour of multidisciplinary events showcasing artists supported by Artist Trust, is Spokane! Featuring author Sharma Shields (Spokane); performance artist Chad Goller-Sojourner (Seattle); filmmaker & writer Shaun Scott (Seattle); and live art by Austin Stiegemeier (Spokane). Hosted by Artist Trust Program Director Brian McGuigan.
About the Artists:
Chad Goller-Sojourner is a Seattle-based writer, solo-performer and recipient of a distinguished Washington State Arts Commission/Artist Trust Performing Arts Fellowship. His work has been funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and featured on NPR. In 2013 he debuted his sophomore solo show: Riding in Cars with Black People & Other Newly Dangerous Acts: A Memoir in Vanishing Whiteness. The groundbreaking and crushingly honest story of what happens when a black boy, raised by white parents, ages out of honorary white and suburban privilege and into a world where folklore, statistics, and conjecture deem him dangerous until proven otherwise. His inaugural solo show, Sitting in Circles with Rich White Girls: Memoirs of a Bulimic Black Boy, debuted July 2008, and chronicles the performers life-long affair with the scale and ten-plus year liaison with an eating disorder
Shaun Scott is a Seattle-based writer, historian, and filmmaker. He is the author of the e-book Something Better: Millennials and Late Capitalism at the Movies. Hes a columnist for City Arts Magazine, where he writes the thread Faded Signs, a bi-weekly column about popular culture in late capitalism. He is currently at work on a new book, Millennials and the Moments that Made Us: A Cultural History of the U.S. from 1984-present. Shauns first feature film was Seat of Empire, a 3-hour long documentary tour of the city of Seattle using archival footage. In 2010 he directed and wrote Waste of Time, a historical mash-up of original footage, archival images, and contemporary music meant as a portrait of consumer capitalism. Scotts first narrative feature was 100% OFF: A Recession-Era Romance (2012), a docudrama about a kleptomaniac and the immigrant wife with whom he enters a marriage of convenience. Shaun was shortlisted for a Stranger Genius Award in Film and selected for City Arts Future List in 2012.
Sharma Shields is the author of a short story collection, Favorite Monster (Autumn House Press 2012), and a novel, The Sasquatch Hunters Almanac (Henry Holt 2015). Sharmas writing has appeared in Electric Lit, The New York Times, Kenyon Review, Iowa Review, Fugue, and elsewhere and has garnered such awards as the Autumn House Fiction Prize, the Tim McGinnis Award for Humor, a Grant for Artist Projects from Artist Trust, and the A.B. Guthrie Award for Outstanding Prose. She received her B.A. in English Literature from the University of Washington (2000) and her MFA from the University of Montana (2004). Sharma has worked in independent bookstores and public libraries throughout Washington State and now lives in Spokane with her husband and two children. She is a newly appointed board member for the Friends of the Spokane County Library District.
Austin Stiegemeier earned his MFA with a specialization in Painting and Printmaking from Washington State University and teaches Printmaking and Visual Communication Design at Eastern Washington University. Austin has been widely exhibited in the Northwest, and has participated in group exhibitions in Chicago and Seattle, as well as Spokanes Museum of Art and Culture. His practice takes on a variety of approaches including drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, installation, street art, and performances that focus around contemporary social issues.
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LocationThe Bartlett (View)
228 W Sprague Ave
Spokane, WA 99201
United States
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