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SUMMARY:Virtual Studio Visit with Pieper Bloomquist
DESCRIPTION:Visit the studio of Scandinavian folk artist and ASF Folk Art Fellow Pieper Bloomquist! Based in Grand Forks\, North Dakota\, Pieper studied Swedish Dalmålning (Kurbits) and Bonadsmålning\, and has been painting in traditional Scandinavian styles of folk art since 1993. Pieper enjoys utilizing elements from folk art traditions to tell modern stories\, incorporating the floral forms\, borders\, layout and perspective of the past to depict scenes that — while personal to her — portray universal human experiences and daily activities of growing up in the upper Midwest. She enjoys placing playful\, contemporary scenes in the context of traditional Swedish flower and scroll formations. \nIn this visit premiering on Saturday\, June 26\, Pieper will share the differences between various Scandinavian art forms\, revealing a bit of her painting process\, and experiences working as an artist (as well as an oncology nurse) during the pandemic. \nThe Studio Visit will premiere on this page at 2 PM ET on June 26 via YouTube and Facebook\, and remain available to stream here through July 3. Links and viewing instructions will be added closer to the date; please check back for more details. \nThis event is the seventh in a series of Virtual Studio Tours from Scandinavia House. See the first tour with Pekka and Teija Isorättyä here\, the second tour with Camilla Vuorenmaa here\, the third tour with Shoplifter/Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir here\, the fourth tour with Ida Lorentzen here\, the fifth tour with Heidi Hankaniemi here\, and the sixth tour with Alison Aune here. \nPieper Fleck Bloomquist has been painting in the Scandinavian and Austrian styles of folk art since 1993. Currently a Grand Forks\, North Dakota resident\, Pieper has been active in programs sponsored by the North Dakota Council on the Arts (NDCA) as a Master Artist teaching Swedish Dalmålning. \nIn 2018 she was granted a Folk Arts Fellowship through the American-Scandinavian Foundation\, studying folk painting of Sweden and helping to perpetuate that tradition across North Dakota and Minnesota.
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SUMMARY:Bolla by Pajtim Statovci — Virtual Book Talk
DESCRIPTION:On July 20 at 7 PM ET\, join us for a pre-recorded book talk with Finnish-Kosovan author Pajtim Statovci (National Book Award finalist\, Crossing) on his new novel Bolla. With moderator Bethanne Patrick\, he’ll discuss the writing of the novel\, available on July 6 in translation by David Hackston from Pantheon. \nAn unlikely love story in Kosovo with unpredictable consequences that reverberates throughout a young man’s life\, Bolla is a dazzling tale full of fury\, tenderness\, longing\, and lust. In April 1995\, Arsim is a 24-year-old\, recently married student at the University of Pristina\, keeping his head down to gain a university degree in a time and place deeply hostile to Albanians. In a café he meets a young man named Miloš\, a Serb. Before the day is out\, everything has changed for both of them\, and within a week two milestones erupt in Arsim’s married life: his wife announces her first pregnancy and he begins a life in secret. \n After these fevered beginnings\, Arsim and Miloš’s unlikely affair is derailed by the outbreak of war\, which sends Arsim’s fledgling family abroad and timid Miloš spiraling down a dark path\, as depicted through chaotic journal entries. Years later\, deported back to Pristina after a spell in prison and now alone and hopeless\, Arsim finds himself in a broken reality that makes him completely question his past. What happened to him\, to them\, exactly? How much can you endure\, and forgive? \nEntwined with their story is a re-created legend of a demonic serpent\, Bolla — an unearthly tale that gives Arsim and Miloš a language through which to reflect on what they once had. With luminous prose and a delicate eye\, Pajtim Statovci delivers a relentless novel of desire\, destruction\, intimacy\, and the different fronts of war. \nThe book talk will take place as a Virtual Premiere on this page at 7 PM ET on July 20 via YouTube and Facebook\, and remain available to stream here through July 25. Links and viewing instructions will be added closer to the date; please check back for more details. \n“Engrossing . . . Statovci lets little sunlight into the narrative\, the better to emphasize just how powerful homophobia and self-loathing can be . . . An unflinching consideration of the long aftereffects of an affair cut short”—Kirkus Reviews \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nPajtim Statovci was born in Kosovo to Albanian parents in 1990. His family fled the Yugoslav wars and moved to Finland when he was two years old. He holds an MA in comparative literature and is a PhD candidate at the University of Helsinki. \nHis first book\, My Cat Yugoslavia\, won the Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize for best debut novel; his second novel\, Crossing\, was a finalist for the National Book Award; and Bolla was awarded Finland’s highest literary honor\, The Finlandia Prize. In 2018\, he received the Helsinki Writer of the Year Award.
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