NEWS

EXHIBITIONS:

Clocking In: 2024 Arts/Industry Residents

John Michael Kohler Arts Center
Sheboygan, WI

March 16, 2024–March 2, 2025

”As part of the Arts Center’s celebration of Arts/Industry’s fiftieth anniversary, the twelve artists in residence at the Kohler Co. factory during 2024 will exhibit their work in a yearlong group exhibition, Clocking In: 2024 Arts/Industry Residents.

Artists featured in the exhibition include first-time residents Shae Bishop, Justin Favela, Cathy Hsiao, Sahar Khoury, Lauren Mabry, and Ger Xiong/Ntxawg Xyooj. Returning Arts/Industry alumni artists Sharif Bey, Mary Anne Kluth, Harold Mendez, Martha Poggioli, Lee Emma Running, and Edra Soto will also present work in the exhibition.

Opera Coat

Kaneko Library
Omaha, NE

November 11, 2023 - February 11, 2024

“Opera Coat is the culminating creation of Opera Omaha’s 22/23 Artist in Residence, Lee Emma Running. The coat sculpture is a direct cast, meaning each piece of the sculpture is cast exactly from the fabric. Before casting, the garment was turned inside out, exposing the part of the costume that is usually hidden from the audience, prompting a focus on what goes on behind the curtains and inside an opera company. The exterior fabric is embellished with botanical symbols, wild roses and deadly nightshade have been cast into the iron. The space inside the garment is empty, allowing the viewer to imagine their own body inside the opera coat.”

Also exhibited at Opera Omaha in the Orpheum Theater
Omaha, NE
February 16-18, 2024

For more information, please visit Kaneko.

PODCASTS:

Riverside Chats

Episode 175
December 18, 2023
”Running’s work “Opera Coat” was unveiled on Nov. 11 at Kaneko, the culmination of her year-long residency with Opera Omaha. “Opera Coat” is an enameled cast iron sculpture, embellished with copper and bronze. It’s a direct cast of a coat in Opera Omaha’s costume wardrobe, meaning each piece of the sculpture is cast exactly from the fab”

Riverside Chats Website:
Riverside Chats is a series of conversations exploring Midwest culture, from art to politics and everything in between.

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900Views Podcast

Episode 17
August 23, 2019
”Visual Artist and Grinnell Professor Lee Running adopts the prairie landscape, creating a community of place through nature and old, magnificent bones.”

900Views Website:
An exploration of arts and community with Host Pat Boddy. Based out of Mainframe Studios in downtown Des Moines, 900Views provides a platform for glimpsing the creative work and lives of the Midwest's cultural producers and influencers.

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Praxis Interview Magazine, WYBCx Yale Radio

Interviews by Brainard Carey
May 28, 2019
“Running was awarded the 2017 Iowa Arts Council fellowship. In 2018 she completed a major permanent installation called Five Miles From Fayette at Upper Iowa University, and a temporary installation in the Governor’s Office at the Iowa State Capital using herbarium samples from the 1800’s as inspiration.”

Praxis Interview Magazine Website:
Praxis is the collaborative name for the work of artists Delia and Brainard Carey. The Museum of Non-Visible Art is a project by Praxis, hosted by Yale University Radio with over 1300 interviews in the archive.