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A Conversation with Athena LaTocha

Release date: Oct. 30, 2025

Artist Athena LaTocha speaks about her practice and artworks with MOCRA Director David Brinker during a conversation on Oct. 5, 2025. LaTocha's work is featured in the MOCRA exhibition, To See This Place: Awakening to Our Common Home.

The talk was made possible with financial support from the Regional Arts Commission.

One-hour-long video of a discussion between MOCRA Museum Director David Brinker and artist Athena LaTocha.

Related Exhibitions

To See This Place: Awakening to Our Common Home

Credits

Producer: David Brinker
Videography and editing: Matt Peterson

Featured Presenter

A woman with shoulder-length black hair wearing a white shirt looks directly at the viewer. Visible from the shoulders up, she stands in front of a textured slate gray background

Athena LaTocha (b. 1969) is an artist whose works on paper explore the relationship between human-made and natural worlds. She incorporates materials such as ink, lead, soils and wood, looking at mark-making and displacement of materials made by industrial equipment and natural events. Her works are informed by her upbringing in the wilderness of Alaska. LaTocha’s process is about being immersed in these environments, while responding to the storied and, at times, traumatic histories that are rooted in place.