PORT ANGELES — The internationally known Icelandic artist Sossa will pay a visit to Peninsula College for a free public lecture and discussion Wednesday afternoon.
A Fulbright scholar who is at Green River Community College this quarter, Sossa was born and raised in the small Icelandic town of Keflavik, where she still produces the majority of her work.
She also has a studio in Copenhagen, where she paints a few months out of the year and takes part in Copenhagen’s Night of Culture each October.
Sossa will talk about her life and art at 2 p.m. in the PUB Conference Room, inside the Pirate Union Building at Peninsula College, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
She’ll show images of her work, but no original paintings.
“With the airline rules as they are, it is difficult to bring art overseas,” said Sophia Iliakis Doherty, the college’s director of International Student & Faculty Services.
“Sossa is coming to us ‘on loan,’ so to say, from Green River Community College,” Doherty said.
The artist’s website is http://www.sossa.is, while information about her visit and other public events at Peninsula College can be found at www.pencol.edu.
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Features Editor Diane Urbani de la Paz can be reached at 360-452-2345, ext. 5062, or at diane.urbani@peninsuladailynews.com.
