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Artist Margi Weir will be speaking about her exhibition, “Bearing Witness” in the Dedo Maranville Fine Arts Gallery this Friday, March 6, noon-1PM.

Margi Weir, an Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, calls upon figurative arrangements and presents them in a tapestry-like fashion; the juxtaposition of elements creates unique pleasing patterns, blurring—but not hiding—the socio-political and ecological themes in her pieces. 

Margi Weir describes her work:

My work, creative research, has always been about topics that are personal even if political.  It is often the only way that I can come to terms with things that anger me or frighten me.  I have become so horrified by the level of anger and division in this country that I must take a look at it through making work about it.  I don’t expect my work to change anything, but through a juxtaposition of images, I hope the viewer will come away with a continued questioning of their own.

Julie Bowland

Professor and Gallery Director

Dedo Maranville Fine Arts Gallery

Department of Art & Design

College of the Arts