Please mark your calendars for the following events with painter Josephine Halvorson, who will be artist in residence at the University of Puget Sound the week of March 24th. Both events are free and open to the public and refreshments will be served. See you there! WHAT MAKES ITS PRESENCE KNOWN Wednesday, March 26, 4:00 PM, Trimble Forum, University of Puget Sound Professor Elise Richman will moderate this panel discussion with local painters Emily Gherard, Helen O’Toole and visiting artist in residence Josephine Halvorson. The artists will discuss how memory, tactility, and empathy inform the layered, distinctly time-based process of painting. Refreshments will be served. ARTIST TALK: JOSEPHINE HALVORSON Thursday, March 27, 7:00 PM, Tacoma Art Museum Josephine Halvorson will speak about her work and painting techniques at the Tacoma Art Museum. Refreshments will be served. Josephine Halvorson makes paintings on-site, face to face with an object in its environment. Often no more than an arm’s length away, she detects variations in texture, light, and temperature, transcribing these perceptions through the medium of paint. The result is an intimate portrait of the object, capturing both a natural likeness as well as the often unseen or overlooked character of her chosen subject. Halvorson holds a BFA from The Cooper Union (2003) and a MFA from Columbia University (2007). She is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Vienna (2003-4), a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant (2009), and a New York Foundation for the Arts Award (2010). She currently serves as a Critic in the MFA program in Painting at Yale University. More information can be found here: http://www.pugetsound.edu/academics/departments-and-programs/undergraduate/art/living-art/ Thank you, Laura Edgar Administrative Assistant, Art Department University of Puget Sound 253-879-2806