The McIntire Department of Art is pleased to announce Marisa Williamson as the 2018 Ruffin Distinguished Artist in Residence.

Marisa Williamson is an New York metro area-based multimedia artist. She has created site-specific works at and in collaboration with Mural Arts Philadelphia, Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, Storm King Art Center, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Her videos, performances, and objects are exhibited regularly in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York. She received her B.A. from Harvard University and her M.F.A. from CalArts. She was a participant in the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in 2012 and the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program in 2014-2015.

She has taught at Pratt Institute, the Brooklyn Museum, and is currently teaching media art at Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts.

Funded by a significant endowment from the Peter B. and Adeline W. Ruffin Foundation, the Ruffin Distinguished Artist in Residence is an annual position designed to bring artists of international stature to the University of Virginia’s studio art program within Ruffin Hall.  As Ruffin Distinguished Artist in Residence, Ms. Williamson will work with students in a variety of courses and be in residence during the spring 2018 academic semester.  Her residency will include a public lecture on February 5th and an exhibition in the Ruffin Gallery February 23 through March 30, 2018.

SAVE THESE RELATED DATES:
Artist Talk: February 5, 2018, 5 pm in the Harrison Small Auditorium
Exhibition: February 23 through March 30, 2018; Opening Reception, Friday, February 23, 2018 in the Ruffin Hall Gallery

For more information about the artist visit:
http://www.marisawilliamson.com/