Kelly Akashi
Join visual artist Kelly Akashi for a discussion about her practice in glass, bronze, crystal, stone, and ash.
Free for all audiences with ticket
Film/Video Theater
Kelly Akashi uses material transformation to give physical form to memory, inheritance, and loss, translating intimate objects into multimedia sculptures that register time and change. She renders things that are fragile or impermanent into enduring forms—hands that suggest aging and growth, weeds made monumental, extinct shells enlarged beyond nature, and inherited lace recast in weathering steel. These works hold traces of touch and labor.
Akashi’s practice is grounded in deep material engagement, where learning processes such as glassblowing, stone carving, mold making and casting, and candle making becomes integral to her conceptual approach. Skill is not separate from meaning but a way of yielding to time, discipline, and transformation. Through this, she reflects on mortality and the quiet dignity of transience.
A Q&A follows the talk.