1 Friday
12:00PM - 1:00PM
FREE
Instructor: Meg Linton
A series of online conversations with creatives about the state of making. Join Meg Linton, independent curator and writer, as she virtually visits the studios of known and emerging artists, exploring their work, influence, philosophy, and creative process.
Deborah Aschheim makes installations, sculptures, drawings, digital and social media projects and temporary interventions into public space. Her projects exploring memory and place with social justice themes are based on historical research and community engagement. She has been artist-in-residence at the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk; Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center and UC San Francisco’s Memory and Aging Center. Public art commissions include artworks for University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Santa Monica Fire Department, Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center in Downey, UCSF, cities of Los Angeles, Sacramento, Palo Alto, Amazon.com. Aschheim has received grants including Center for Cultural Innovation, the California Community Foundation, and has had solo and group exhibitions across the US.
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Meg Linton has 20+ years of experience as a director and curator of contemporary art spaces. Meg is best known for her exhibitions, programs, and publications she curated during her decade-long tenure as the Director of Galleries and Exhibitions at the Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.
Currently, she is working on an exhibition about the life and work of artist Keith Julius Puccinelli for the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara; is lead producer on a documentary film about 1970s-80s feminist performance art in Los Angeles called ACTING LIKE WOMEN directed by Cheri Gaulke; Studio Manager for Steve Roden at inbetweennoise.com; the new Administrator of the Claire Falkenstein Foundation; and she is researching and writing an historical novel about a suffragette in the Mid-West.
You can find her on Instagram @meg_linton.