Jon Rubin, Interdisciplinary Artist
Osher Hall, 522 Congress St.
October 9 at 12:15pm
Jon Rubin is an interdisciplinary artist who creates interventions into public life that re-imagine individual, group and institutional behavior. His projects include starting a radio station that only plays the sound of an extinct bird in an abandoned neighborhood, running a barter-based nomadic art school, operating a restaurant that produces a live video talk show with its customers, and co-directing another show that serves cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict. He is currently developing a collaborative sitcom that will be shot simultaneously in Los Angeles and Tehran.
David Trubridge, Woodworking + Furniture Design
Osher Hall, 522 Congress St.
October 10, 6:30pm
David Trubridge is a furniture designer based in Havelock North, New Zealand. Trubridge graduated from Newcastle University in Northern England in 1972 with a degree in Naval Architecture. For the next ten years he lived and worked in rural Northumberland, teaching himself furniture-making while working part-time as a forester on a private estate. He went on to develop his own designs, which were exhibited around Britain. Many commissions followed, most notably from the Victoria and Albert Museum, St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh, and the Shipley Galler, Newcastle.
Sheila Pepe, Cross-disciplinary + Installation Artist
Osher Hall, 522 Congress St
October 23 at 12:15pm
Sheila Pepe is an artist and educator living and working in Brooklyn, New York. She is a prominent figure as a lesbian, cross-disciplinary artist whose work employs conceptualism, surrealism, and craft to address feminist and class issues.