Artist and Kirkland College alumna Mei-ling Hom '73 will return to the Hamilton College campus to give a lecture on Wednesday, Jan. 31. She will speak at 4:15 p.m. in the Red Pit of the Kirner-Johnson Building. Her lecture is free and open to the public.
Hom has participated in dozens of guest lectures, workshops, and exhibition galleries all over the world throughout the past 30 years. "Floating Mountains, Singing Clouds," a January 2006 exhibition of Hom's work, marked the first time a living Asian-American has had a solo exhibition at the Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution.
Most recently, Hom's awards have included the Fulbright Award for Visual Art Research in Korea and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Visual Arts Grant. She is an associate professor of art at the Community College of Philadelphia.
Hom has been widely recognized for incorporating her heritage into her work. Mary Thomas, an art critic for the The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, praised Hom's work for how it "creates exquisite conceptual installations that draw upon Chinese tradition and the history of past generations in the United States for the subject matter." In a 2005 article in The Washington Post, Hom, who is Chinese-American, commented that her piece "Floating Mountains Singing Clouds," a sculpture of hex netting resembling both mountains and clouds, was a metaphor "for cultural markers that don't have form." Hom's art comfortably conveys her Chinese heritage in an American setting.
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