Maria Tomasula named as Eric Yake Kenagy Visiting Artist

Eric Yake Kenagy Visiting Artist: Maria Tomasula

Date and Time: Wednesday, September 18, 2024 at 7:00 p.m.

Location: Rieth Recital Hall, Goshen College Music Center

Cost: Free and open to the public

Maria Tomasula, this year’s Eric Yake Kenagy Visiting Artist.

Maria Tomasula, professor emeritus and faculty fellow at the University of Notre Dame, will speak at Goshen College’s annual Eric Yake Kenagy Visiting Artist event on Sept. 18. Her speech is titled “Giving Visual Form to a Sense of Self.”

Tomasula is a LatinX studio artist who makes paintings, drawings and prints. Her work is best known for its layered emotional intensity as well as its meticulously produced material surfaces. She draws on her lived experiences as a cultural hybrid to create images that resonate with themes of memory, history, spirituality, and embodiment. She received her BFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago and her MFA from Northwestern University.

Her work has been exhibited widely in venues such as at Forum Gallery, New York; Forum Gallery, Los Angeles; Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago; The National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago; Taller Boricua, New York; The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Connecticut; Illinois State Museum, Springfield; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art & Design, Kansas City; Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York; and numerous others. Her work has been written about in publications such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, ARTnews and many others.

The annual event, which brings a new artist to the Goshen College campus every year, is made possible by the Eric Yake Kenagy endowment.

Tomasula’s talk will be part of Goshen College’s new lectureship series. For more information and other speakers, visit goshen.edu/lectures.