Maren Hassinger: Artist conversation

Fri, Jan 28, 12 pm
Virtual event
In partnership with Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD)
Free, registration required
MCAD

“All spaces have meanings and associations, and I use space as a palpable material.” ––Maren Hassinger

Multidisciplinary artist Maren Hassinger will discuss her life’s work and the reimagining of her iconic pink installation Embrace/Love, to be titled Love (for Minneapolis) as a healing intervention for The Great Northern 2023. With Minneapolis College of Art and Design’s Vice President of Academic Affairs Robert Ransick. 

Maren Hassinger was the Emeritus Director of the Rinehart School of Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, which she led for 20 years. During a career that has spanned more than four decades, Hassinger has explored relationships between the industrial and natural worlds in a practice that is both meditative and critical. Currently, her work is focused on exploring issues of equality.