Please join us tonight (Thursday, October 24th) at the Kittredge Gallery at the University of Puget Sound at 5:30 PM for a talk by internationally renowned artist Jeanne van Heeswijk. This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. If you have any questions please call the Art Department at 253-879-2806. Jeanne is a visual artist who facilitates the creation of lively and diversified public spaces, typically from abandoned or derelict sites. Her socially engaged art practice generates new forms of encounter while challenging bureaucratic conventions and acquired rules. Van Heeswijk trained at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht and the Academie voor Beeldende Vorming in Tilburg in the Netherlands. She had her first solo exhibition in 1991 and has since exhibited at venues worldwide, including numerous biennials. Van Heeswijk's projects distinguish themselves through their strong social involvement, often among hundreds of participants and over an extended period of time. She sees herself as a mediator who generates "interspaces," contexts and crossovers within which new relations are established between groups of people and institutions. These connections lead to public improvements, self-organization of local groups, self-sustaining enterprises, and a stronger community identity. Jeanne is currently at the University of Puget Sound as part of Living Art, a weeklong artist residency program supported by the Art Department. She will also be speaking at the Tacoma Art Museum in a conversation with curator Rock Hushka on Saturday, October 26 at 1:00 PM. That is event is also free and open to the public. [cid:image003.jpg@01CED09F.8E803F30] Laura Edgar | Art Department Assistant and Curator, Abby Williams Hill Collection UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND 1500 N. Warner St. #1072 Tacoma, WA 98416-1072 T: 253.879.2806 pugetsound.edu/art