Weathering Time and For the Love of Trees - Artist Talk with Nancy Floyd | AJ225 | April 9 | 6 PM
Join visual artist Nancy Floyd as she discusses her projects Weathering Time and For the Love of Trees. Weathering Time is a personal archive following the artist and her environment through changes over the last thirty-five years. For the Love of Trees explores the bonds that humans make with nature.
Nancy Floyd has been a visual artist for over 40 years. Her interests include the aging female body, the passage of time, barren landscapes, and trees. She uses photography, video, and mixed-media to address the ways in which lens-based media can connect deeply with experience and memory. Floyd has received numerous grants and awards including a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship, the 2019 International Center of Photography / GOST Books First Photo Book Award, a 2018 Aaron Siskind Photography Fellowship and a 2014 John Gutmann Photography Fellowship.
Floyd holds a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin, an MA from Columbia College Chicago, and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. She is Emerita Professor in the Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design at Georgia State University in Atlanta and lives in Bend, Oregon.
Come to AJ 225 on April 9 at 6 PM to hear from Floyd and see some of her work! This talk is free and open to the public.