Friday, April 5, 2024, 6-7:30 PM
Union Hall – MHK Downtown, 328 Poyntz Ave., Manhattan, Kansas
Free and open to the public
Join the Beach Museum of Art and specialist Nate McClendon in welcoming celebrated artist Susie J. Lee to Manhattan. This public event will celebrate social art project Manhattan Community Portrait inspired by Lee’s video portrait series Fracking Fields, 2013. In addition to interviews with Lee and McClendon, there will be interactive experiences exploring how we see each other as a community. Support for the event is provided by Art Bridges Foundation, a nonprofit organization that works with museums across the country to increase local access to great American art. Union Hall in Manhattan
serves as the local sponsor for the social art project.
Click here to read all about the Manhattan Community Portrait project.
Susie J. Lee is a practicing artist whose work explores intimacy, time and
connection through technology. Recognized as Emerging Artist of the Year
for the “intelligence, emotion and sensuality” of her work, Lee has focused
on the amplification of genuine and spontaneous human connection
through technology.
Lee is a graduate of Yale, Columbia and University of Washington with
degrees in molecular biophysics and biochemistry, education, and fine arts
She has a unique background as a scientist, educator, entrepreneur, single
mother and artist that feeds into a restless intellectual curiosity that is
ultimately grounded in a strong sense of vocation to positively change the
world in a concrete manner.
