SALVAGED: NATURE'S READYMADE Artist Talk & Guided Tour

Join artist Yusimy Lara for an engaging artist talk and guided tour of the exhibition. An art exhibition built on the transformation of matter loses something essential if it can only be seen. The distance between a palm frond left to rot in a gutter and the same frond sealed in tar and resin is, above all, a distance felt in the hand, the difference between something brittle and something that has been given, almost paradoxically, a second skin. For the student visitors who will move through this gallery in groups, many during a single class period and many with no background in art at all, sight alone will not carry that argument. Touch will.