Art+ Education No. 13 - Breathing Fire: Ice Ships Weep

Art + Education No.13
Breathing Fire: Ice Ships Weep
Robin Lasser
March 24, 2024
5:00pm 6:00pm PSt
Join Lasser to experience decades of environmental art living in public space: Dress Tents, Migratory Cultures, Tents Talk & Ice Ships Weep
"I would like to invite you on a journey with me, to explore the process of making art that lives in public space. Although my projects may look physically different from one and other, the topics I have tangoed with, over the years, have connecting threads. These projects take place across the globe including Russia, India, China, Argentina, Brazil, and Canada. Image making and story sharing are central to my practice."
Robin Lasser is a Professor of Art at San Jose´ State University. She produces photographs, video, site-specific installations, and public art dealing with public health, environmental issues, and social justice. Lasser has been making environmental art for over three decades. She will share facets of work connected to four long term projects: Dress Tents, Migratory Cultures, Tent Talks, and Ice Ships Weep. Lasser invites you on a journey to explore the process of making art that lives in public space. Although her projects may look physically different from one and other, the topics she tangoes with, over the years, have connecting threads. Lasser works collaboratively, in the public sphere, creating social sculptures and providing opportunities for communities, local and global, to engage in experiences that highlight social, public health, and environmental issues; the relationships between ourselves and the world we occupy. These projects take place across the globe including Russia, India, China, Argentina, Brazil, and Canada. Image making and story sharing are central to her practice.
Lasser exhibits her work nationally and internationally. Asian Art Museum, San Jose´ Museum of Art, National Gallery of Modern Art Bangalore India, the Museum of Goa India, Exploratorium Observation Gallery in San Francisco, Kohler Museum of Art, The Metenkov Museum of Photography, Yekaterinburg, Russia, The Recoleta Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and The Caixa Cultural Center in Rio De Janeiro.
Lasser also participates in international biennials such as ZERO1: Global Art on the Edge, San Jose, California, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada and the Pingyao International Photography Festival in Pingyao, China.
Earlier national and international exhibitions include Aronson Galleries - Parsons School of Design in New York City, Wave Hill Glyndor Gallery in the Bronx, New York City, L.A. County Museum of Art in Los Angeles, California, the De Young Museum in San Francisco, the Osaka World Trade Center Museum in Japan and the Academy of Film in Prague, Czech Republic. Lasser is currently the US project lead and participating artist in cross-cultural art exchanges between Russia, Iran, India and the U.S.