VIRTUAL- Third Thursday Virtual Visiting Artists

Wendy Red Star
Raised on the Apsáalooke (Crow) reservation in Montana, Wendy Red Star’s work is informed both by her cultural heritage and her engagement with many forms of creative expression, including photography, sculpture, video, fiber arts and performance. An avid researcher of archives and historical narratives, Red Star seeks to incorporate and recast her research, offering new and unexpected perspectives in work that is at once inquisitive, witty and unsettling. Red Star holds a BFA from Montana State University, Bozeman, and an MFA in sculpture from University of California, Los Angeles. She lives and works in Portland, OR.
The Nerman Museum has in its collection one set of Wendy Red Star’s Four Seasons photographs and has on permanent display Red Star’s Jingle Dress in one of the Collection Focus Areas that are installed across the JCCC campus.

Sheila Pree Bright
Atlanta-based photographer Sheila Pree Bright portrays large-scale works that combine a wide-ranging knowledge of contemporary culture. She is known for her series, #1960Now, Young Americans, Plastic Bodies, and Suburbia. Bright is the author of #1960Now: Photographs of Civil Rights Activists and Black Lives Matter protests published by Chronicle Books, which was featured in the New York Times. She appeared in the 2016 feature-length documentary film Election Day: Lens Across America. Her work has been exhibited widely, at museums nationally and internationally. Bright earned a BS from the University of Missouri and an MFA in Photography from Georgia State University.
Also in the Nerman’s collection is one of Sheila Pree Bright’s photographs, which has been on display in multiple permanent collection exhibitions. Bright was a featured artist in the 2010 exhibition Faraway Nearby — Addressing Suburbia.