Art exhibit: 'Rowena Finn-7000 Pieces of Me: Visual Essays on Identity and Belonging'

From: Perspective Gallery

Rowena Frederico Finn is an award-winning artist living in Virginia whose artwork has been shown extensively.

Finn is a passionate and outspoken activist for the rights and needs of underrepresented and underserved communities and has served on multiple advisory boards. Finn also shares her talents by teaching painting and drawing. 

This exhibition has been created in collaboration with the VT Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) + Center, which will host Finn as a visiting artist April 3-5. The exhibition employs the tactle language of textiles, shells, beads, wood, paper, and more to convey the nuanced struggle of grafting Filipino/FilipinoX cultures onto pre-existing Amercan cultural norms. 

An artist's reception and talk will be held at the Perspective Gallery on Thursday, April 4, from 5-7 p.m. with the talk beginning at 5:30 p.m. The talk is sponsored by the Office of the Associate Provost for the Arts, Diverse Voices and Perspectives Lecture Series. 

All events in the gallery are free and open to all. Gallery hours can be found on the Perspective Gallery Website