Voice of the Artist Lecture: Leticia Bajuyo

This spring, the Muscarelle Museum of Art is thrilled to welcome artist Leticia Bajuyo to William & Mary for a week-long residency. As part of the residency, Bajuyo will present a talk titled “Matter Matters,” sharing how compassion and empathy fuel her studio production as she combines disparate objects and remnants of past yearnings and reassess their current silence. An Assistant Professor of Sculpture at the University of Oklahoma, she earned an MFA at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and a BFA at the University of Notre Dame. In addition to exhibitions of her individual artworks, Bajuyo seeks community and welcomes collaboration by participating in artist collectives including the Filipinx Artists of Houston, Land Report Collective, and Project Vortex.

Leticia Bajuyo creates drawings, sculptures, installations, and public art that highlight crafted materiality, collected stories, and community engagement. Her interest in unpacking value perceptions finds its roots in her autobiography growing up bi-racial in a small, rural town on the border of Illinois and Kentucky. The time and space of quiet landscapes outside and the multi-national dialogues inside her family’s house influenced the development of her critiques of consumer capitalism, fickle domestic desires, and internalized pressures of assimilation.

No registration required; free and open to all.