Jean Marie Casbarian

Portland State University MFA Monday Night Lecture Series

Jean Marie Casbarian is an interdisciplinary installation artist who incorporates photography, film and video projections, sound, sculpture and performance into her artworks. She received her MFA from Milton Avery School of Art at Bard College in New York in the year 2000. She has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the City Colleges of Chicago.

Along with a nomination for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Jean Marie has received a number of awards and artist residencies including The LaNapoule Foundation Grant in LaNapoule, France, the Chicago Artist's Assistance Project Grant, and a yearlong Associateship with The Rocky Mountain Women's Institute.

Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Currently, she resides in Western Massachusetts where she is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Film, Video, and Photography Department at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts and mentor for the Transart Institute based in Linz, Austria.

Portland State University's Art Department offers free public lectures every Monday night of the school year. This is the second lecture in the PMMNLS for this season. The Portland State University MFA Monday Night Lecture Series (PMMNLS) is supported in part by PICA, Reed College, PNCA, Lewis and Clark College, and PSU's Department of International Studies. If you or your organization are interested in becoming a supporter of the lecture series please let us know.

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