Lynne Yamamoto was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. The cultural and familial heritage… Lynne Yamamoto was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. The cultural and familial heritage of this internationally recognized artist is often integral to her work. In her local exhibition at the Mattress Factory, a contemporary installation art museum on Pittsburgh’s North Side, Yamamoto’s work, titled Smooth Cayenne, explores the significance of the pineapple in her native Hawaiian culture and in her own life.

On Saturday, March 27, Yamamoto will speak at Chatham College about her art, and artistic expression in general. Her lecture, Narrative: Women and Memory, which will address the interconnections of history, memory, narrative, and cultural identity in visual and verbal expression, will focus in part on the labor-intensive process of creating the multi-media installation, Smooth Cayenne. Furthermore, she will share her personal creative process, which includes intensive research in disciplines ranging from botany to literature, and the collection of and reflection upon her various source materials.

Yamamoto received an M.A. from New York University and is an assistant professor of art at Smith College in Northampton, Mass. She is the 2001 recipient of the Creative Capital Foundation Grant, and her work can be found all over the country, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.

Narrative: Women and Memory will be held in the Eddy Theatre of Chatham College at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $5.