WHAT: NMSU Visiting Artist Lecture Series
WHO: Ebitenyefa Baralaye is a sculptor whose work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at Friedman Benda Gallery (New York), David Klein Gallery (Detroit), Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Los Angeles, the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco and the Korea Ceramic Foundation in Icheon.
WHEN: 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7
WHERE: New Mexico State University, Devasthali Hall in the bleachers, 1308 E. University both in person and over Zoom at https://nmsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUkde6sqT8qHdLsYpAmSR_bLPFwk4tbD-9_
VISUALS: Baralaye is a ceramicist, sculptor, designer, and educator. His work explores cultural, spiritual, and material translations of objects, text, bodies and symbols interpreted through a diaspora lens and abstracted around the aesthetics of craft and design.
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CUTLINE: Ebitenyefa Baralaye has refined his experimental approach to ceramic sculpture over the past decade. Through an intricate process of press-modeling clay forms, Ebitenyefa creates durable, lightweight plaster press-molds entirely by hand. (Courtesy photo)