Public Assembly: Traditions and Transformations

Using Bemis Center’s current exhibition Presence in the Pause: Interiority and Its Radical Immanence and Jennifer Ling Datchuk: Eat Bitterness as an entry point, this conversation will consider the ways that mediums on display in Bemis Center’s current exhibitions—painting and ceramics—simultaneously carry both heritage and cultural memory and histories of oppression. Facilitated by Omaha-based artists Caitlin Cass and Jared Packard, this discussion will examine ways that artists handle materials to question our relationship to history and tradition.

Image: Jennifer Ling Datchuk. like freckles, like eggshells, like stone, 2022. Kohler ceramics. Varied dimensions. Photo courtesy of John Michael Kohler Arts Center.