Laurie Steelink: Plugged-In Virtual Connections Studio Series

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Video Description:
Artist and curator Laurie Steelink speaks from us from her studio space in Cornelius Projects in San Pedro, CA. With an interest in storytelling, feminism, and healing she applies vibrant abstract patterns to mixed materials and found objects, creating kinetic and still works that vibrate with energy. Her colorful current work addresses receiving messages as guidance and explores different forms of connecting the self, humanity and nature, and medicinal. The San Pedro-based artist discusses her artistic journey through music, design, Fluxus influence and more.
Artist Biography
Multidisciplinary artist Laurie Steelink identifies as Akimel O’otham, and is a member of the Gila River Indian Community. Born in Phoenix, Arizona and raised in Tucson, she received a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, and an MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. She served as archivist for the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection in New York, and was director of Track 16 Gallery in west L.A. from 2002 to 2016. In 2012, Steelink founded Cornelius Projects, an exhibition space in San Pedro, CA that she named after her father. The curatorial focus at Cornelius Projects is primarily the cultural history and the artists of San Pedro and the Harbor Area. Steelink’s work has been exhibited internationally, and she has participated in Native American Indian Marketplaces at the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles, and with the Santa Fe Indian Market in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
About our studio visit artist series
Art Encounter and Plugged-In Virtual Connection videos are used to inspire art activities in our K-12 art education program, Plugged-In Virtual Connections. The Museum selects artists for this studio visit series who use their materials and employ visual abstraction in a particularly innovative way. This program is funded by the RuMBa Foundation of Long Beach.
All artworks © Laurie Steelink
Courtesy of Laurie Steelink