Please join us for a lecture with artist Carter Mull.

Date: Tuesday, October 18, 2016 7:00 PM — 8:30 PM
Location: The CIA at Copia Theater, 500 First Street, Napa, CA

Artist Biography

Carter Mull (born 1977 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American artist working in Los Angeles. Mull took his BFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design in 2000 and MFA from California Institute of the Arts in 2006. He creates pictures through a process of rephotographing and altering existing images.

Mull’s work has been exhibited widely, most recently at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Presentation House, Vancouver, Domaine Departement de Chamarande, Paris, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles and Gagosian Gallery, New York. His project intertwines multiple mediums to question the media that constructs our conception of the world. In turn, the practice recomposes an understanding of our shared, social imagination.

His work is in the collections of the Walker Art Center, the UCLA Hammer Museum, the Orange County Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the UCLA Hammer Museum, The Getty Research Institute and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. His practice has been discussed in publications and periodicals, including Artforum, Art on Paper, Art In America, The Los Angeles Times and The New Yorker.

Please join us for a lecture with artist Evan Nesbit.

Date: Tuesday, October 11, 2016 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Location: The CIA at Copia Theater, 500 First Street, Napa, CA

Evan Nesbit received a BFA from San Francisco State University in 2009 and MFA from Yale University in 2012. Nesbit received the Ely Harwood Schless Memorial Fund Prize, Yale University in 2012. Nesbit is an internationally known artist with solo and group exhibitions at Roberts & Tildon, Los Angeles, Eleven Rivington, New York, James Harris Gallery, New York, Koki Arts, Tokyo, Japan, Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco, Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy, Portmanteau, Geneva, Switzerland, and Motus Fort Gallery, Tokyo, Japan among many others.

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Please join us for a lecture with artist Tucker Nicholst.

Date: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Location: The CIA at Copia Theater, 500 First Street, Napa, CA

Tucker Nichols is an artist based in Northern California. His work has been featured at the Drawing Center in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Denver Art Museum, Den Frie Museum in Copenhagen, and the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.

His drawings have been published in McSweeney's, The Thing Quarterly, Nieves Books and the Op-Ed pages of The New York Times. He is co-author of the books, Crabtree and This Bridge Will Not Be Gray.

He is represented by ZieherSmith in New York and Gallery 16 in San Francisco.

All lectures are held on Tuesdays at The CIA in the theater at the former Copia, 500 1st Street, Napa CA. Lectures begin promptly at 7pm and are free and open to the public.

March 15 Alice Shaw
March 22 Robert Kushner
April 12 Caroline Woolard

All lectures are held on Tuesdays, promptly at 7pm, are free and open to the public. Lectures will be held on campus at The Oxbow School dining hall, 530 Third Street in Napa.

February 23 Clare Rojas
March 8 Richard T. Walker
March 15 Alice Shaw
March 22 Robert Kushner
April 12 Caroline Woolard

Puls received her M.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design. Her work is represented in numerous collections including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Oakland Museum, the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, and the Jewish Museum in New York. Puls is a Professor of Art at the University of California at Davis. She lives in Berkeley, California.

Alison Wright, a New York-based documentary photographer, has spent a career capturing the universal human spirit through her photographs and writing. For many of her projects Alison travels to the remotest regions of the globe photographing endangered cultures and people while documenting issues concerning the human condition.

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Emmy-nominated filmmaker and Webby Awards Founder Tiffany Shlain has received over 70 awards and distinctions for her films and work, including being named by NPR as having delivered one of the Best Commencement Speeches, Ever, and by Newsweek as “one of the women shaping the 21st Century.”

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Daniele Frazier is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Originally from Mill Valley, California, she graduated from the Cooper Union School of Art in 2007, where she received the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Trust Award. Frazier was a student of Oxbow Fall 2001.

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Hiroki Morinoue was born in Kealakekua, Hawaii. He received his BFA with high honor from the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1973. Morinoue studied in Japan on two occasions: Sumi-e (Japanese Brush Painting) with Koh Ito Sensei in 1976 and Mokuhanga (Japanese Woodblock Printmaking) with Takashi Okubo Sensei in 1973. Since then he has developed his own techniques and application of water-based printmaking that he has taught and shared with his students for the past 30 years.

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