Speaker Series: “Unsettled Lands” with Manette Bradford

Join artist Manette Bradford for an in-depth look at one of the featured exhibitions, Unsettled Lands.
In this conversation, Bradford will share her background and creative process, along with the ideas shaping this body of work. Unsettled Lands reexamines familiar themes of the American West, exploring the relationship between landscape, identity, and Western mythology. Through watercolor, collage, and ceramic works rendered primarily in sepia tones, she challenges traditional ideas of masculinity, heroism, and humanity’s connection to the land.
The discussion will also consider how those long-standing Western narratives continue to evolve today, and how artists are reshaping what we think we know about place, memory, and meaning in the contemporary West.