BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:18235-5579c294127cc43aac15213a439fbe9b@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260905T141145Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260422T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260422T170000 SUMMARY:WGSS Speaker Series: Micaela Amato Amateau DESCRIPTION:\nJoin us for a talk: Silver Stories. Silver Stories is a ha untingly poetic\, genre-defying narrative by artist Micaela Amateau Amat o. Experimental "diasporic conversations" merge feminist storytelling\, political rage\, and ecological ancestral wisdom. Through fragmented vig nettes and visual interludes\, Amato invites readers into a lyrical expl oration of memory\, injustice\, love\, trauma\, and the mystical power o f voice. Weaving together autobiography\, political reckoning\, spiritua l reflection\, and her visual art\, Amato's narrative is deeply rooted i n her Sephardic-Mizrahi heritage and diasporic experience. Silver Storie s unfold in layers—palimpsests and pentimentos across time—inked in meta phorical silver. The narrative is illustrated with Amato’s cast glass sc ulptures\, mixed-media portraits\, archival photographic montages\, and abstract painted evocations of earth\, sea\, and wind that extend the te xt—becoming spectral witnesses to the stories being told.\n\n“The dizzyi ng reflectivity of Micaela Amateau Amato’s work is intended to throw vie wers off balance\, into the shifting time and space where the artist liv es and which defines her political position. For all her aspirations to peace and balance\, the kaleidoscopic frequency of Amato’s surfaces and assembled forms can be downright frenetic. In her search for a density t hat is never static\, she inevitably seems on the edge of overload\, pul ling the work back from the brink by endowing it with lyrical complexity .” Lucy R. Lippard\n\nMicaela Amato Amateau Distinguished Professor Emer ita SOVA &\; WGSS\, is a visual artist\, curator\, writer\, and envir onmental activist. She gained recognition internationally and across the U.S. for her paintings\, large scale cibachrome photographs\, and life size cast-glass portrait heads that emerged from her ancient Iberian and Maghreb ancestry. Reviewed in The New York Times\, The Los Angeles Time s\, Artforum\, Women's Art Journal\, and Art in America\, she has receiv ed several National Endowment for the Arts Awards and two Pollock Krasne r Awards. Her fifty gouache paintings illustrate the critically acclaime d eco-social justice book Zazu Dreams Between the Scarab and the Dung Be etle\, A Cautionary Fable for the Anthropocene Era\, written by her daug hter and collaborator Cara Judea Alhadeff.\n\nFor more details: https:// events.la.psu.edu/event/wgss-speaker-series-micaela-amato-amateau/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Join us for a t alk: Silver Stories. Silver Stories is a hauntingly po etic, genre-defying narrative by artist Micaela Amateau Amato. Experimen tal "diasporic conversations" merge feminist storytelling, political rag e, and ecological ancestral wisdom. Through fragmented vignettes and vis ual interludes, Amato invites readers into a lyrical exploration of memo ry, injustice, love, trauma, and the mystical power of voice. Weaving to gether autobiography, political reckoning, spiritual reflection, and her visual art, Amato's narrative is deeply rooted in her Sephardic-Mizrahi heritage and diasporic experience. Silver Stories unfold in la yers—palimpsests and pentimentos across time—inked in metaphorical silve r. The narrative is illustrated with Amato’s cast glass sculptures, mixe d-media portraits, archival photographic montages, and abstract painted evocations of earth, sea, and wind that extend the text—becoming spectra l witnesses to the stories being told.

“The dizzying reflectivity of Micaela Amateau Amato’s work is intended to throw viewers off balance , into the shifting time and space where the artist lives and which defi nes her political position. For all her aspirations to peace and balance , the kaleidoscopic frequency of Amato’s surfaces and assembled forms ca n be downright frenetic. In her search for a density that is never stati c, she inevitably seems on the edge of overload, pulling the work back f rom the brink by endowing it with lyrical complexity.” Lucy R. Lippard

Micaela Amato Amateau Distinguished Professor Emerita SOVA & WG SS, is a visual artist, curator, writer, and environmental activist. She gained recognition internationally and across the U.S. for her painting s, large scale cibachrome photographs, and life size cast-glass portrait heads that emerged from her ancient Iberian and Maghreb ancestry. Revie wed in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Artforum, Women's Art Journal, and Art in America , she has received several National Endowment for the Arts Awards and tw o Pollock Krasner Awards. Her fifty gouache paintings illustrate the cri tically acclaimed eco-social justice book Zazu Dreams Between the Sc arab and the Dung Beetle, A Cautionary Fable for the Anthropocene Era, written by her daughter and collaborator Cara Judea Alhadeff.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/wgss-spea ker-series-micaela-amato-amateau/

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