Expressions of Blackness w/ artist Katharen Wiese
Katharen Wiese returns to the Noize! We love returning guests on Studio Noize especially when they reach new milestones in life that we can celebrate. Kat was admitted into the Yale MFA program for fall 2022! We discuss how she feels and what she is looking forward to in this amazing new journey she’s starting. Kat tells us her thoughts on graduate school for artists, what attracted her to the program and how she plans on interacting in this storied institution. We discuss her latest solo show, I Made the Corn Rows: Portraits of Black Nebraskans, the podcast she created that accompanies it, the Black ID’s podcast, and her feature in Pressing Matters magazine issue 18. Listen, subscribe, and share!
Episode 139 topics include:
starting MFA at Yale
the experience of graduate school/school for art
new solo show, I Made the Corn Rows
feature in Pressing Matters magazine
Black IDs podcast
the intersections of diverse backgrounds
research in Kat’s art practice
how to approach a painting and printmaking
Between Spaces painting by Katharen Wiese
Katharen Wiese (b. 1995, Lincoln, Nebraska) is an artist and a community arts organizer living and working in the historic Everett Neighborhood of Lincoln, NE. She holds a B.F.A. in Studio Art from The University of Nebraska at Lincoln (2018). Her work has been featured in group exhibitions across the state including the Museum of Nebraska Art (2021), Kiechel Fine Art (2020), Lux Center for the Arts (2020), Tugboat Gallery (2019), the Prairie Arts Center (2017), and many more. Her work is a part of the Nebraska History Museum collection and the Thomas P. Coleman print collection at the Sheldon Museum of Art. She was a 2018 nominee for the University of Nebraska Vreeland Howard Award and a four-time award winner of the Kimmel Harding Scholarship for Emerging Arts (2014-2018). Wiese has curated art shows across the state for the past four years with an emphasis on sharing the work of artists of color. Wiese views building an art historical cannon that decentralizes patriarchy and white supremacy as her central work as an artist-curator. Wiese's work analyzes the relationship between power and Blackness related to art history, colorism within media representation, and multiracial individuals. Wiese uses found materials and portraiture to make evident the relationship between identity formation and the material world.
See More: www.katwiese.com + Katharen Wiese IG @katharen.wiese
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