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Art NOW presents: Dr. Cassandra Dam
WITCHIN’, BITCHIN’, AND SWITCHING: A Visual Exploration of the Evolving Maiden, Mother, Crone Archetypes
Noon | January 31, 2024
University Recital Hall
A talk about witches, and old ladies, and grey hair, and mothers who did it all (and not very well) and kickass young women, like Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and John Wick who have been changing the world regardless of gender, traditions, and expectations put on them by society.
Cassandra Dam, PhD., is an assistant professor of art history, visual studies, and museum studies at the University of Lethbridge and teaches a very popular course called 'Art + Death' at the Alberta University of the Arts. They are a certified Death Doula and Death Educator. Their career focusses on art-practices in non-traditional environments such as education, academic research, and currently in the growing field of Thanatology exploring visual artistic practices across cultures and time that provide comfortable points of access to this verboten subject. In their spare time, they fondly collect artworks and objects with morbid perspectives on living + dying and travel with their unliving assistant Hepburn, a skeleton, who is on Instagram @ dr.damart.
Image: Shona Rae, Baba Yaga’s Hut/ The Priestess (II), 2001-2005, Collection of Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary. Gift of Herbert Sawatzky.
Free admission, all are welcome to attend
Contact:
finearts | finearts@uleth.ca | ulethbridge.ca/fine-arts/event-season