Uploaded May 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
Join us for a conversation with Karen Bondarchuk, the artist who created Ergo Sum: A Crow a Day, now on exhibit at the Dennos Museum Center. In 2014, Canadian-born Karen set out to mark the passing time that her mother – diagnosed with dementia in 2010 – no longer could. For 365 days, she produced a crow a day on a hand-cut, hand-gessoed panel, remembering her mother as she once was and grieving her loss. The resulting work explores communication and an artist’s relationship to the world; it resonates for its depth, beauty, and elegiac and potent whimsy.
Our guest host for this interactive conversation is Kathy Kelsey Foley, Director of the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum which organized the traveling exhibition.
Karen Bondarchuk is an associate professor of art and foundation art area coordinator at Western Michigan University's Gwen Frostic School of Art. She teaches drawing and sculpture courses. A native of Canada, Bondarchuk received her M.F.A. in sculpture from Ohio State University and her B.F.A. in sculpture and video from NSCAD University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (formerly the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design).
This program was recorded on Wednesday, May 20, 2020.
Join us for a conversation with Karen Bondarchuk, the artist who created Ergo Sum: A Crow a Day, now on exhibit at the Dennos Museum Center. In 2014, Canadian-born Karen set out to mark the passing time that her mother – diagnosed with dementia in 2010 – no longer could. For 365 days, she produced a crow a day on a hand-cut, hand-gessoed panel, remembering her mother as she once was and grieving her loss. The resulting work explores communication and an artist’s relationship to the world; it resonates for its depth, beauty, and elegiac and potent whimsy.
Our guest host for this interactive conversation is Kathy Kelsey Foley, Director of the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum which organized the traveling exhibition.
Karen Bondarchuk is an associate professor of art and foundation art area coordinator at Western Michigan University's Gwen Frostic School of Art. She teaches drawing and sculpture courses. A native of Canada, Bondarchuk received her M.F.A. in sculpture from Ohio State University and her B.F.A. in sculpture and video from NSCAD University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (formerly the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design).
This program was recorded on Wednesday, May 20, 2020.
