Beya Gille Gacha & Michael Walsh Presentations

Join us on Thursday, October 15, 2026 at the Civitella Castle for Presentations by Visual Arts Fellow Beya Gille Gacha and Director's Guest Michael Walsh. We will welcome you with light refreshments at 6:00 PM.

Thursday, October 15, 2026

6 PM Welcome cocktail

6:15 PM Presentations

Beya Gille Gacha is a Franco-Cameroonian artist and curator living and working between France and Cameroon. She develops sculptural and immersive installations drawing on Bamileke beadwork, biomaterials, site-specific ecologies, cross-cultural ancestral knowledge, and ritual practices. Her artistic and curatorial practice explores the intersections of the body, the sacred, ecology, and transmutation. Her work has been presented internationally, including at the Dakar Biennale and the 61st Venice Biennale, and is in the Smithsonian Museum of African Art’s collection.

Curator, archivist, and studio artist, Michael Walsh has worked in moving image art since 1990. He has curated moving image programs for San Francisco museums and micro-cinemas, Milwaukee’s urban meadows, Alaskan airplane hangars, and on mountain tops. He identifies with the avant-garde film practices of the 1960s and champions this tradition in programs interweaving 21st-century practices and philosophies. Recently, Walsh was curator and archivist for the Walker Art Center’s moving image program. Walsh often collaborates with his wife, Asia Freeman, on shared exhibitions.