Visiting Film/ Video Artists & Speakers Series Spring 2024:

Sheri Wills, Select Works, 21 min

Tuesday, March 26, 2024, Lecture Hall 6, 7:00 pm, Free Admission.

Sheri Wills an artist who works with film, video, and sound to make single-channel videos, installations, sound works, and live video performances. She explores the material, psychological, and philosophical potentials of cinema to reveal small moments that often go unseen and pull forward the emotional content of abstract imagery.

She has had one-person shows at venues including the Director’s Lounge in Berlin, the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema in NYC, and the Ann Arbor Film Festival. Her films have been screened internationally, such as at the Museum of Modern Art in NY, the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Cinémas Différents in Paris, the International Film Festival in Rotterdam, the London Film Festival, San Francisco Cinematheque, Fisura in Mexico City, the Abattoirs Museum in Toulouse, France, and Microscope Gallery in NYC. Her films are distributed by Light Cone in Paris.

Sheri Wills is an American Council on Education Fellow and a Professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, where in 2019 she was honored with the Frazier Award for Teaching Excellence. She is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow.