Contemporary Oil Painting Dale Pesmen Knotty Red

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Dale Pesmen is an artist, anthropologist, writer, educator and translator based in Chicago.
Her paintings, collages and drawings are in … Read more Dale Pesmen is an artist, anthropologist, writer, educator and translator based in Chicago.
Her paintings, collages and drawings are in private collections in the U.S. and Europe. Between 1984 and the present she has exhibited paintings and collages in 20 one-woman exhibits and juried and group shows and has collaborated on a conceptual book, museum installation and multimedia performance at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Six of her paintings and drawings are featured on book covers. She regularly paints and draws live at jazz concerts.
In 2016 and 2017 she conducted ethnography/writing workshops at the University of Alberta, Edmonton Summer Fieldschool for Ethnographic Sensibility in Belgrade, Serbia. Since 2000, Dale gives occasional visual art and writing workshops in Chicago and other cities and has participated in theatrical projects.
After receiving a B.A. (Honors) at The University of Chicago (Art and Design), Dale earned her M.A. and PhD (with distinction) from The University of Chicago Department of Anthropology.  Her book, Russia and Soul: an Exploration (Cornell University Press), is based on research and early-1990s residence in a Siberian city (see "anthropology" page).  Between 1991 and the present Dale has authored over twenty articles and reviews in edited volumes, including in Tropological Thought and Action: Essays on the Poetics of Imagination (2022, Berghahn),  Anthropology of the Arts: A Reader, Language, Culture and the Individual, Altering States: Ethnographies of Transition in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, and Beyond Metaphor: The Theory of Tropes in Anthropology, as well as in peer-reviewed journals, including Annual Review of Anthropology, American Anthropologist, Irish Journal of Anthropology, Journal of Anthropological Research, Slavic Review, Anthropology and Humanism, Recent Developments in Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology of East Europe Review and Encyclopedia of World Cultures.
From 1988 to the present Dale has taught customized American English Accent Coaching courses privately and has taught these topics in Chicago (see “accent” page) as well as in Omsk, Siberia during her research there.
She designed and taught a 3-tiered arts integration workshop series for college education professors, their education students and high school students, as well as numerous arts integration units in the Chicago Public Schools for Northeastern University/Arts at the Center.
Dale has given lectures, courses and papers at the University of Chicago, in the Departments of Anthropology and Slavic Studies, in the Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences and at Slavic studies and anthropology conferences. She gave a 2005 Yale Anthropology Colloquium Lecture and a lecture at the National University of Ireland / UCGD as well as fourteen presentations at American Anthropological Association, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Central States Anthropological Association and International Conference of Europeanists annual meetings.  She has spoken and taught at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), Reed College, St Patrick's College, Maynooth, University College, Cork (Ireland) and Columbia University.
She has done numerous Russian - English literary translations of poems, plays and novels as well as many non-fiction translations (on topics from crab species to 17th-century jewelry) for private, academic and corporate clients; translated major art catalogues and contracts for museum exhibitions; done legal and business translation and management of conference and webcast interpreting services; extensive theatrical translation and interpreting (production and administration) in Russia and the U.S. and has run customized cultural consulting/intercultural communication seminars.
Dale was Translation Advisor on the 2023 film Porcelain War. See less