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Artists Jackie Brown & Erin Mallea in the Jannotta Gallery
August 16, 2021
Two artists are now showing in the Jannotta Gallery in Hillyer Hall. Jackie Brown’s primary focus is on sculpture installation. In Malleable And Changeable, she combines three previous installations and invites viewers into imagined biological systems where it can often be hard to tell if the forms are healthy or harmful growths. Erin Mallea is a multidisciplinary artist motivated by an attempt to better understand the spaces she inhabits. In Refuge, she examines the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Oregon and explores the past and present of particular microcosms as metaphors for larger human and environmental conditions. July 26th-September 24th, Daily.
Jannotta Gallery, Hillyer
9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Events at Smith

Artists Jackie Brown & Erin Mallea in the Jannotta Gallery
August 23, 2021
Two artists are now showing in the Jannotta Gallery in Hillyer Hall. Jackie Brown’s primary focus is on sculpture installation. In Malleable And Changeable, she combines three previous installations and invites viewers into imagined biological systems where it can often be hard to tell if the forms are healthy or harmful growths. Erin Mallea is a multidisciplinary artist motivated by an attempt to better understand the spaces she inhabits. In Refuge, she examines the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Oregon and explores the past and present of particular microcosms as metaphors for larger human and environmental conditions. July 26th-September 24th, Daily.
Jannotta Gallery, Hillyer
9:00 am to 5:00 pm

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Artists Jackie Brown & Erin Mallea in the Jannotta Gallery
August 30, 2021
Two artists are now showing in the Jannotta Gallery in Hillyer Hall. Jackie Brown’s primary focus is on sculpture installation. In Malleable And Changeable, she combines three previous installations and invites viewers into imagined biological systems where it can often be hard to tell if the forms are healthy or harmful growths. Erin Mallea is a multidisciplinary artist motivated by an attempt to better understand the spaces she inhabits. In Refuge, she examines the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Oregon and explores the past and present of particular microcosms as metaphors for larger human and environmental conditions. July 26th-September 24th, Daily.
Jannotta Gallery, Hillyer
9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Events Off Campus

The Housing Revolution Starts at Home
September 2, 2021
With Dr. Anaid Yerena, Associate Professor, The School of Urban Studies at the University of Washington Tacoma. Current approaches to affordable housing focus on policy and legislative strategies that explicitly uphold White dominant culture and perpetuate capitalist practices and legacies of settler-colonialism while undermining and erasing the knowledge, innovation, and social contributions of Indigenous, Black, and individuals from other marginalized communities. These practices and legacies fuel the current housing crisis in the U.S. My work argues that to counteract these forces, we must decolonize housing by identifying approaches to shelter that support community resilience, particularly in times of crisis. I examine examples from different cultures, in particular, those from indigenous peoples, and the Global South. I take stock of the many modes of shelter that are possible beyond the hegemonic model of housing that clings to individualistic approaches. This work supports the radical imagination needed to change how we address the shelter needs of all members of society and contribute to a future that centers healing, justice, and dismantles systems of oppression. Dr. Yerena holds a Ph.D. in Planning, Policy and Design from the University of California Irvine. Her scholarship focuses on housing, community development, social inequality, and urban governance in the U.S. and Mexico.
UMASS Olver Design Building, Room 170
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm