From the Director:
Welcome to Parlour 153 artist salon website! We have been on a short hiatus and have returned featuring new programming and activities starting summer 2010.
Kicking off our first lecture of the season is Allicette Torres our Artist in Residence at Parlour 153. She will be discussing her new series on Picher, Oklahoma. This series exemplifies the artistic vision needed to assist us in our understanding of local community rupture from radical free market forces moving on global level. Her visionary work brings a human lens to the identity of this small western mining town and the citizens facing displacement from the aptly named Superfund registry.
Allicette work is familiar to us in her international scope and refining questions to communal and individual. She pushes bravely past the familiar, to bring us in this series her encounter with a small town in western wide plains and its raw and severed costs.
I am proud to feature Allicette and hope you will join me in following her career.
-Noreen Dean Dresser