Illustrated Lecture by Artist Lauren Fensterstock: “Magnificent Complexities, Meaningful Constructions”

Join us as Lauren Fensterstock discusses her elaborate sculptures and installations, which explore the evolving history of our relationship to nature through the merging of environmental and metaphysical landscapes. During these tumultuous times, Fensterstock turns her creative eye to the skies for wisdom, where moody storms, ominous comets, and dying stars have long been screens onto which humans have projected our anxiety, hopes, and fears.

Fensterstock will also consider how her embrace of materials and techniques historically associated with “ladies’ work”—including mosaics, shellwork, and papercutting—emphasizes the capacity of crafts traditionally associated with women to provoke reflection on the complexities of the world beyond the domestic sphere.  

The lecture is anticipated to last approximately 45 minutes, followed by audience Q&A. 
Free to Museum Members and with Museum Admission. 
The exhibition New England Now: Strange States, which features examples of Lauren Fensterstock’s work, will remain open until 7:00 p.m.