Object Lessons: An Artist Talk with Carletta Carrington Wilson

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Join exhibiting artist Carletta Carrington Wilson as she shares her explorations and observations about the complex meanings of objects.

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Be inspired by exhibiting artist <a href="https://carlettacarringtonwilson.com" title="https://carlettacarringtonwilson.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Carletta Carrington Wilson</a> as she shares her explorations and observations about the complex meanings objects can hold and how they inform her artistic practice. An audience Q &amp; A and Museum-wide <a href="https://www.biartmuseum.org/event/summer-2026-exhibition-party/" title="https://www.biartmuseum.org/event/summer-2026-exhibition-party/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">2026 Summer Exhibition Party</a> to follow the Artist Talk (as attendees of this event, you are able to join for our 2026 Summer Exhibition Party, no registration or Membership required)! Wilson's exhibition, <a href="https://www.biartmuseum.org/exhibitions/carletta-carrington-wilson-retrospective/" title="https://www.biartmuseum.org/exhibitions/carletta-carrington-wilson-retrospective/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Object Lessons</a>, is on view at BIMA this summer.

Guest name:Carletta Carrington-Wilson Guest bio:The narrative threads of<a href="https://carlettacarringtonwilson.com" title="https://carlettacarringtonwilson.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> Carletta Carrington Wilson’s</a> literary and visual works merge mirroring the melding of language and form. Encountering cloth as a constellation, as a geographical expanse and translator of time, Wilson explores the potential and possibility of engaging with fabric and its fabrication in unexpected ways. The Pacific Northwest’s moody skies, mountain ranges, and bodies of water are integral to her artistic practice. It is here that her work has rooted itself, has ascended and descended, has formed structures upon which eye + hand, mouth/tongue/mind conjoin to create text &amp; images reaching across realms of time. Her work is sited in and linked to the act of imagining and re-imagining a history in which multitudes of individuals found themselves without the means to transmit the meaning of their journey through the beauty and brutality of life. She uses history as canvas, an eye, camera lens, brush stroke, sculpting tool, pen, and thread. Wilson’s poems, artist's books, and artworks and can be found in local, regional, and national collections. She is the author of <a href="https://www.ravenchronicles.org/books/poem-of-stone-and-bone-by-carletta-carrington-wilson" title="https://www.ravenchronicles.org/books/poem-of-stone-and-bone-by-carletta-carrington-wilson" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Poem of Stone and Bone: The Iconography of James W. Washington Jr. in Fourteen Stanzas and Thirty-One Days</a>. Guest website/social:<a href="https://carlettacarringtonwilson.com" title="https://carlettacarringtonwilson.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://carlettacarringtonwilson.com</a>

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