APP Chair and Professor Pato Hebert is an Artist in Residence at Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts & Agriculture in Sisters, Oregon this summer!
Read below to see an excerpt from Pato's bio on the Pine Meadow website:
"Hebert is currently chairing the Department of Art & Public Policy at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and continues to inspire through teaching and artistic expression. Their solo exhibition, Lingering, debuted at Pitzer College in 2022. It poignantly captures the lingering effects of long COVID, a testament to their dedication to exploring collective wellness. “I have also been thinking about the migration of viruses — in part because I have been living with Long COVID since 2020 and also because this summer marks my 30th year of doing community organizing around HIV. How do we collectively respond when one of us becomes infected? How do we cultivate and sustain communities of care? How to dismantle ableism and stigma while transitioning to chronically sharing the body with a virus?” says Hebert. “The world is always changing, of course, but our current period feels particularly intense. I think this is when artists, organizers and healers must deepen our practices of engagement with others. Viruses and political storms leave us no choice.”
https://roundhousefoundation.org/pine-meadow-ranch/pato-hebert-collective-wellness-the-challenges-and-possibilities-of-interconnectedness-and-relationship-to-place/