University of Oregon Department of Art Visiting Artist Lecture-Jenni Sorkin- “California Soul: The Vessel Tradition in the Work of Peter Voulkos and June Schwarcz”

University of Oregon- Department of Art Visiting Artist Lecture Series

Jenni Sorkin

Jenni Sorkin is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History at University of California, Santa Barbara. She holds a PhD in the History of Art from Yale University. Sorkin writes on the intersection between gender, material culture, and contemporary art. Her book, Live Form: Women, Ceramics and Community was published by University of Chicago Press in 2016. She has also published widely as an art critic, and her writing has appeared in Artforum, Art Journal, Art Monthly, NU: The Nordic Art Review, Frieze, The Journal of Modern Craft, Modern Painters, and Third Text. She has written numerous in-depth catalog essays on feminist art and material culture topics, and lectures nationally and internationally.

Special thanks to the Department of the History of Art and Architecture for their support.

Website- http://www.arthistory.ucsb.edu/people/jenni-sorkin