A Conversation with Paul Villinski & Dr. Tammi Hanawalt – Virtual Webinar
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Join us online on Wednesday, September 11 at from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. MST for a conversation with artist Paul Villinski, an artist featured in Un/Natural Selections: Wildlife in Contemporary Art exhibition. With a lifelong concern for environmental issues, Villinski’s work frequently repurposes discarded materials, effecting surprising and poetic transformations. Deeply fascinated with butterflies and their scientific study known as Lepidopterology, many of his artworks bridge science and symbolism as a metaphor for rebirth and flight.
Curator of Art at the National Museum of Wildlife Art (NMWA), Tammi Hanawalt, PhD, will be guiding the conversation. Hanawalt earned her PhD in art history at the University of Oklahoma in 2017 and has been at NMWA since 2018. Hanawalt curated Un/Natural Selections: Wildlife in Contemporary Art from NMWA’s permanent collection.
This webinar is made possible by generous support from Art Bridges. Un/Natural Selections traveling exhibition is currently at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art.
Register for the webinar here!
Artwork Credit: Paul Villinski, Pegasus, 2016. Found wood, found aluminum cans, wire, steel, Flashe acrylic; Gift of the 2016 Collectors Circle, National Museum of Wildlife Art.