RAiR Exhibitions and Artist Talks:

Artists Tonee Harbert, Michael Waugh and Jordan Craig to be featured via Zoom

The Roswell Museum and Art Center is thrilled to announce the return of RAiR (Roswell Artist-inResidence) Exhibitions and Artist talks. Three artists will give online talks – using Zoom – about their
exhibitions. The talks will be on three consecutive Saturdays, Aug. 22 and 29 and Sept. 5. The talks are
scheduled for 8 p.m. each Saturday. Featured artists are:
Tonee Harbert, Saturday, Aug. 22
Michael Waugh, Saturday, Aug. 29
Jordan Ann Craig, Saturday, Sept. 5

For many years, the Roswell Museum and Art Center has partnered with the Roswell Artist-in-Residence
program to bring the resident artist’s work to the public. Each resident-artist exhibition is traditionally
accompanied by a lecture on opening night. Due to limitations on public gatherings, the artists’ lectures
will be broadcast live and recorded at the residency compound.

Saturday, August 22| 8 p.m.
Tonee Harbert | “Through the Static and Distance”
Tonee Harbert uses an outdated plastic camera called a “Diana” with a mass-produced plastic lens to create fuzzy and
somewhat wistful landscape images. Taking the drought-stricken and bullet-riddled Roswell outskirts as his subject,
Tonee quietly considers our culture’s unstated values.
Tonee’s lecture can be viewed live on Aug. 22 at 8 p.m. with this link:
https://zoom.us/j/97701272614?pwd=bkZyL2hnUjBSNmNySnZwTVhhRnpNUT09
Meeting ID: 977 0127 2614
Passcode: 583481
The lecture will be permanently available at:
https://rair.org/tonee-harbert

Saturday, August 29 | 8 p.m.
Michael Waugh | “A Fable for Tomorrow”
Michael Waugh uses the technique of “micrography,” or pictures made up of minute handwriting, to provide added
meaning to literary and political texts. Using text from a 1962 environmentalist work, Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring,”
Michael builds allegorical landscapes depicting domesticated and wild animals struggling to survive.
Michael’s lecture can be viewed live on Aug. 29 at 8 p.m. with this link:
1011 N. Richardson Ave.
Roswell, NM 88201
https://zoom.us/j/98648894795?pwd=Vm0yektHOGpCRjF3aG96TW8rc1dUdz09
Meeting ID: 986 4889 4795
Passcode: 765392
The lecture will be permanently available at:
https://rair.org/michael-waugh

Saturday, September 5 | 8 p.m.
Jordan Craig | “Your Favorite Color is Yellow”
Inspired by traditional designs from indigenous cultures, Jordan Craig creates minimalist paintings that are fiercely
traditional and formally rigorous. Her current series evokes both traditional Native bead and quillwork and high
modernism, bringing these two seemingly disparate cultural forms into an optically-dynamic balance.
Jordan’s lecture can be viewed live on Sept. 5 at 8 p.m. with this link:
https://zoom.us/j/93459522795?pwd=enZUUFhPUTlMdlJkbFhWd1k5OW04dz09
Meeting ID: 934 5952 2795
Passcode: 896619
The lecture will be permanently available at:
https://rair.org/jordan-ann-craig

Each lecture link and information will be posted to the RMAC Facebook page and Instagram account.
While RMAC is currently closed to the public, viewing of these exhibitions can be arranged via private
tour beginning Sept. 9. The exhibitions will run through the end of September. The museum is located at
1011 N. Richardson Ave., just north of the Roswell Convention Center. For more information or to schedule a
private tour of the RAiR exhibitions, call (575) 624-6744.