Visiting Artists & Scholars
Gallery II
5072 Fine Arts Center, Pullman Campus
Monday–Friday
9:00 a.m–5:00 p.m
Closed for lunch noon–1:00 p.m.
Closed on University holidays
“There are parts of [the sky] we are meant to connect.”
“Family Camping Hall of Fame Allentown, New Hampshire”, John D’Agata
If I look away I will find some
words that don’t belong to me,
stolen, borrowed, or apprehended
“Fable of the Barn” Ann Lauterbach
Despite a growing sense of futility, I still feel an atmospheric pull to try and tie the air back together, to weave something honest and grounding where I am. As a global citizen, I’m disoriented. As an artist, I’m fighting off becoming numb, endeavoring to confront the weight of distance through the litany of my sculptural practice. Works in Inheritances are recent landings, results of my attempts to articulate tangles with expectation—the tensions, apathies, and melancholy lingering just below a surface of restraint.
These fixed collisions of tactile memory exist at the boundary of self and environment. They are product(s) of hand-me-down materiality: broken limbs, cracked foundations, décor of domesticity, and the language stitched into the seams of my history. In the white noise of my fingers, I’m stitching together fractured time. Time lost, time neglected, and time that may only be felt or dreamt as blue skies on the horizon.
Stacy Isenbarger’s artworks provoke a sense of tactile memory. Through poetic material collisions within precariously occupied spaces, Isenbarger invites viewers to confront the sentimentality of distance and the tangles of restraint.
Isenbarger’s creative pursuits include sculpture, installation, mixed-media drawings, and supporting community exchange through art.
As a Professor of Art + Design at the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho, she celebrates her opportunities to explore creative communication and empowerment. She received her BFA at Clemson University & her MFA from the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia. When she’s not teaching or making—and sometimes when she is—she’s usually dancing since the act continuously validates her joy of community acceptance and shaking up space.
Upcoming Event
April 4th
ALL THAT MATTERS
Krista Brand, David Janssen Jr., Chelsea Jacobs