Three Weeks of Interactive Installations that Tell the Story of a Military Wife and Mother
Prescott College’s MFA in Social and Environmental Practice is pleased to announce that Jamie Kough will present CAMOUFLAGED, three weeks of interactive installations at the Melrose Trading Post in Hollywood, California. The dates include:
May 29 - The Self Series
June 5 - The Mother Series
June 12 - The Wife Series
The first of this year’s MFA Capstone Exhibits, Camouflaged, speaks about war from a different perspective, that of a wife and mother, the unseen, unheard service member, as depicted by Kough. The wife serves at home but lives in a “separated” body emotionally attached to her spouse. Upcycled found objects, create the female body of self, wife, and mother each shown in the duplicity of emotionally deployed self vs. the home self. Translations of trauma can be seen in how the figures convey rigidness vs. roundness, decoration vs. nudity, and openness vs. walls. The frustration and resentment regarding the lack of services for family members invite the viewer to think about their neighbor, to think about this country as a country at war and how we might better support our military families at home and afar, and how we as an individual become a commodity through service.
Jamie Kough is an arts advocate, educator, and art maker. Kough’s work exists in found art installation, performance, and live art performances. She has been working for over 30 years in Orange and Los Angeles counties in collaboration with performing arts schools, centers, places of worship, public school districts, museums, galleries, and universities. Kough has taught in the AUHSD, PYLUSD, Chapman University, UCI, and Orange County Performing Arts Center in both the art and education departments. Her passion is to bring about social change via a visual language that invites community collaboration in order to deepen the conversations and relationships that bring about awareness, responsibility, and movement forward.
Students in Prescott’s MFA in Social and Environmental Arts Practice focus on the intersection of art and activism and specifically explore art in social change and the application of art as a change agent.
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