Visual artist and Castleton Adjunct Professor of Art Shelley Warren will bring her artistic vision to the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington DC in October as she gives an artist talk at the esteemed venue, after having her art selected for a DC city arts gallery.
Warren and local DC artist Leslie Berns were chosen to be featured as a duel-artist exhibit in the Flashpoint Gallery. The pair often participates in collaborative shows of their multi-media nature-based installations.
In their exhibition of moving images and multi-media, they explore relationships between art and ritual, identity and the environment, and Eastern philosophy and spiritual tradition.
The two artists have known each other since they attended the Yale School of Art and Architecture as graduate students, Warren in sculpture and Berns in painting.
Their Smithsonian talk is part of the museum’s Luce Local Artist Series presented with CulturalDC, which features local artist to discuss work on view in the museum.
The duo will join to host the open discussion on some of their favorite works in the Luce Foundation Center on Oct. 26.
As a recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, Warren’s multimedia installations and videos have been exhibited at national venues. Her work has also been displayed locally at various galleries around the Vermont area, including Castleton’s own Castleton Downtown Gallery in Rutland.