In Conversation: Clint Baclawski and Iwalani Kaluhiokalani

Tuesday October 21, Talk from 6:30- 7:30pm, 6pm doors

In Conversation: Join multidisciplinary installation artists Iwalani Kaluhiokalani and photographer Clint Baclawski as they discuss space, time, color and motion in their work on view as part of Echoes of the Heart until December 13, 2025. Moderated by Dr. Leonie Bradbury.

Location: Media Art Gallery, 25 Avery Street, Boston, MA

Clint Baclawski works with photography, technology, light, and space. He received his BFA in Advertising Photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Post-Baccalaureate from Bucknell University, and an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art in Design. He is Boston-based and has been an adjunct professor in Graduate Studies at MassArt since 2017. In 2022, Baclawski had residencies in both Venice, Italy, and Wassaic, NY.

He was awarded a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship Grant in Photography in 2019. Baclawski exhibits his work extensively throughout the United States, and his work is included in many private and institutional collections including Children’s Hospital, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Whitehead Institute, and Fidelity. He has been published in Boston Art Review, FRAME (Amsterdam), Boston Home Magazine, Designboom, The Boston Globe, and The Collector’s Guide to New Art Photography Volume II (New York, NY). Clint’s studio is located in Boston’s South End.

Iwalani Kaluhiokalani is a Boston-based painter and interdisciplinary installation artist whose work centers movement. She holds a BFA in Painting with Distinction and Departmental Honors from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, where she also studied dance and performance art in the Studio for Interrelated Media (SIM) program. She later continued studies in Laban Bartenieff Movement Analysis, completing a Laban Institute of Movement Studies program at Lesley College, Cambridge, MA.

Kaluhiokalani is part of Kingston Gallery, Boston and her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions at Bromfield Gallery, Boston, The Pfizer Building and LabCentral of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, New Art Center Newton, and La Traverse/Catherine Bastide Projects in Marseille, France. She has created installation work for corporate collections and for the ACTivate residency at Boston Center For the Arts. Kaluhiokalani’s work is held in individual and corporate private collections.