WWU Art Department presents Victoria Calabro Jan. 19 as part of Studio Speaker Series

Victoria Calabro, whose work “Yo-yos on Yellow Hill” is included in the Western Gallery winter exhibition “Transformations 6: Contemporary Works in Glass,” will speak from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 19, in Room 238 of the Fine Arts building on the WWU campus.

The lecture is part of the Western Washington University Department of Art’s Studio Speaker Series.

Calabro has said that she works intuitively when creating her installations. Her process is one of discovery and intention, and often she clarifies her works while in the process of creating them. By pulling metaphorical value from materials associated with decoration, comfort, femininity and beauty, she explores these topics through the use of unlikely materials such as cast rubber, glass and metal. The result is an installation that functions like a diorama or formal exhibit and draws the viewer into a completely artist-designed environment.

The Western Gallery winter exhibition runs from Jan. 19 through March 13.

Calabro received an MFA in Fine Art from New York University. Her work has been exhibited at The John Michael Kohler Art Center Museum in Wisconsin and in several galleries in New York, Massachusetts, Indiana and Pennsylvania. She currently lives in New York.

The lecture is free and open to the public; no tickets are needed. For disability accommodations, please call the Department of Art at (360) 650-3660.

For more information about the lecture, please call Sarah Clark-Langager at (360) 650-3963 or Seiko Purdue at (360) 650-4832.