Visual Arts Lecture
From Nehalem to Carrara—Carving a Life from Marble
with MJ Anderson
July 22 | 7:00 – 9:00pm
Tuition $15
Hoffman Center for the Arts | 594 Laneda Avenue | Manzanita
From Nehalem to Carrara – Carving a Life from Marble
Marble quarry
Come join M.J. Anderson as she shares stories of her 40-year annual migration between her home and sculpture studio on the Oregon coast to her studio and life in Carrara, Italy. Creating sculptures in marble is her passion and life’s work. She creates sculpture for architectural, liturgical, and private commissions as well as personal work for gallery exhibition. M.J. shows her work locally at Coast Gallery and Coast Cabins in Manzanita, Rowboat Gallery at Salishan Marketplace, and Imogen Gallery in Astoria. Come discover more about her process in creating her signature pieces and about her life amid the mountains, quarries, and historic community of Carrara, Italy.
“…Her aesthetic eye is inclusive, accepting, and compassionate, grounded in a lifetime of extravagant loves and losses, which score the cuts and smooth the curves of every piece she creates. And what gloriously allusive cuts and curves, what nubby, gnarly, defiantly individualistic surface topographies animate her artworks! She is a devotee of the anomaly, the irregularity ripping through a chunk of otherwise smooth rock, which other artists might disparage. She honors the evocative imperfection of wabi-sabi, the scars that give a stone its soul.”
-Richard Speer, American art critic, curator, and author
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July 22, 2023
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Lecture: From Nehalem to Carrara: Carving a Life from Marble
with MJ Anderson
Address:
594 Laneda Avenue, Manzanita, Oregon, 97130, United States
Description:
Situated on the main street in Manzanita just a few blocks west of Highway 101, the Hoffman Center is located across the street from the North Tillamook Library.
