During his Solo Residency, North Carolina-based artist Nate Hester will create two large-scale (64x44") works on paper for the Tokyo International Art Fair. The artist’s trans-disciplinary work (drawings, projected animations, textiles, ceramics, immersive installations of household ephemera, tags, and interactive encounters) explores the charming if disquieting incongruities of the places, communities and bodies to which we all yearn to belong. He will use New Orleans as his inspiration for the work, writing that the city is the "confluence of many natural, political, historic, cultural and ethnic influences." He will also use his time at Kolaj Institute to investigate the technique of bas-relief paper pulp sculpting. On Saturday, October 5, 2024, 2-4PM, the public is invited to visit Kolaj Institute Gallery to meet the artist and see how the artwork is progressing. 

FREE

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