Noontime Artist Talk: Shane Charles discusses Into the Sun

Join artist Shane Charles as he discusses his recent installation Into the Sun, as part of the PMA’s long-standing exhibition Passages in American Art. Charles’ installation practice intersects performance, sculpture, and mixed-media work within a cartographic and archaeological framework. Born in Bangor, Maine, and raised along the Penobscot River between Old Town and the Penobscot Nation, Charles comes from a family with deep ties to Olamon. His father, a Penobscot Nation citizen and lifelong surveyor, passed on a lineage that informs Charles’ understanding of mapping, time, and site. His work engages in generational themes of inheritance, materiality, and representation.