Wednesday, November 6
7 - 8pm
FREE! Free! Free!
Emma Nishimura
Image credit: ANNA GABY-TROTZ
Please join us at Highpoint on Wednesday, November 6th at 7pm for an artist lecture by Emma Nishimura. The lecture will take place in the co-op at Highpoint.
Please note: construction on Lake Street is impacting travel time. We have limited free parking behind our building. Seating is also limited. Early arrival is recommended for all these reasons.
About Emma Nishimura: Based in Toronto, Canada, Emma works with a range of media, including printmaking, photography, sculpture and installation. Her work addresses ideas of memory and loss that are rooted within family stories and inherited narratives. For the past decade, Emma’s research and art practice has focused on the experiences her family and thousands of other Japanese Canadians endured throughout their forced incarceration during the Second World War. Her work explores this history and the reverberations these experiences have had throughout the subsequent generations.
Emma has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her work is in a number of public and private collections, including the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum, the Japanese Canadian National Museum and the Library of Congress. She is the recipient of the Queen Sonja Print Award 2018. Emma received her MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and her BA from the University of Guelph. Emma is an Assistant Professor at OCAD University.
Emma Nishimura,
Shikata ga nai: It cannot be helped
Photo etching on gampi with thread
36.5 x 12”, 2024
This event is generously supported by the McKnight Foundation. Emma’s visit to Minneapolis is to conduct studio visits with the 2024 McKnight Printmaking Fellows.
