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Posted: Thursday, April 20, 2017Today: Artists on the Road - 'The Atlas of Aloha 'Aina: Mapping the Love of the Land'
Yola Monakhov Stockton, assistant professor of photography, will discuss Hawaiian identity and tourism in relation to photography during today's final Artists on the Road: Travel As a Source of Inspiration lecture, "The Atlas of Aloha 'Aina: Mapping the Love of the Land," from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. in Science and Mathematics Complex 170.
Ms. Stockton will share stories from her travels, including immigrating from the former Soviet Union; undergraduate study abroad in Bologna, Italy; work in photojournalism in the Middle East and Central Asia; and other travel made possible by her work as a photographer and artist. The second part of her talk will cover more recent work in Hawaii, where marketing images of a tourists' paradise mask a colonial history and erasure of native rights. She will speak about how her work seeks to engage these dueling realities, and how photographs constitute cultural memory.
The Artists on the Road series is co-sponsored by the Design Department and the International and Exchange Programs Office. For more information on the series, please contact Carol Townsend, associate professor of design and coordinator of design foundations, 878-4986.
