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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="4">Tuesday Talks presents Lauren Zito,
Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at SUNY Plattsburgh, speaking on
"The Artist's Wife - My time in Brigus, Newfoundland" on <b>Tuesday,
October 29, 2024 at 5pm</b> in the Angell College Center's Alumni Conference Room.
Below is an abstract of Lauren's presentation.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="4">I lived, worked and explored Kent
Cottage in Brigus, Newfoundland for a full month this past summer as part of an
artist residency. I was selected as the
Visual Artist Resident for 2024 at Kent Cottage in Brigus which is run by the
Landfall Trust organization in Newfoundland. It was such a rich and moving
experience in all its simplicity. I felt
myself enjoying the rhythm of the bay, the rhythm of the animals - the light
and the sounds.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="4">I took this time to dive more
deeply into the little known world and headspace of Kathleen Kent, the wife of
Rockwell Kent, during their brief time at the cottage in Brigus, Newfoundland
between 1914 and 1915. I spent time
writing, shooting images, and reimagining a script. While there is much written about Rockwell
Kent - both by others and from him directly (at length!), there was very little
written about his first wife, Kathleen Kent. The only thing that remains are
some letters she wrote to Rockwell while he was off on his many adventures as
well as a few letters to friends. The
letters are minimal, not very verbose and often hard to read because unlike
Rockwell who often wrote his letters on proper archival writing paper, Kathleen
wrote on whatever scrap of paper was available at the time and they haven’t
held up well over the last 100+ years.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Kathleen’s time in Brigus,
Newfoundland was brief but her presence is still felt in Kent Cottage. I’m looking forward to exploring more about
her time here through the footage and images that I gathered, and also how she
felt and endured, not just in the cottage and the town, but as the often
voiceless woman whose direction and life was not always her own. Video and
images of my stay in the Kent Cottage in Brigus, Newfoundland will be</span>
shared.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p></div></div>