Maya Lin’s Confluence Project

Maya Lin and the Northwest are having an exciting conversation. Lin is half-way through a decade of work on the Confluence Project, seven widely separated sites along the Columbia River in Oregon and Washington that mark intersections of rivers, cultures, histories, and ecologies.

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Jackie Matisse: Collaborations in Art + Science

New York- and Paris-based artist Jackie Matisse has been making and flying long-tailed, Asian-style kites for several decades. In 2002, through Ray Kass of the Mountain Lake Workshop of the Virginia Tech Foundation, she became involved in a radically new and technologically ground-breaking project, a collaboration with super-computer scientists to create simulated kites to fly

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Measure the Distances: A Conversation with Mona Hatoum

Mona Hatoum defines physical and objective space by altering its reality. Her spaces do not refer to a specific or identifiable situation but allow us to perceive the psychic dimension within an environment. Confronting the conflicts and contradictions within power relationships, her sculpture deals with confinement, uncertainty, and fear—even the most ordinary everyday objects and

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