Upcoming Events
Visiting Artist Lecture Series — Fall 2022
Starting next week! Mark your calendar!
OCTOBER'S SCHEDULED TALKS
Lucy R. Lippard
Tuesday, October 4 at 6:30 PM
In-person. Visual Arts Complex auditorium, 1B20
Lucy R. Lippard is a writer, activist, sometime curator, author of twenty-five books on contemporary art, cultural studies, and local history, most recently: Undermining: A Wild Ride through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West and Pueblo Chico: Land and Lives in Galisteo Since 1814. She is co-founder of various activist artists groups (including Heresies, Printed Matter, PAD/D, and Artists Call Against US Intervention in Central America) and has curated some 50 shows, often in non-traditional venues. She lives in the village of Galisteo, New Mexico, where she volunteers with the Fire Department Auxiliary and the Water Board. For 25 years she has edited the monthly community newsletter.
Jane Steurerwald, Director of the Thomas Edison Film Festival
Curated presentation of short films
Tuesday, October 11 at 6:30 PM
In-person. Visual Arts Complex auditorium, 1B20
For over 40 years the Thomas Edison Film Festival has been celebrating and advancing the unique power of the short film. Jane Steuerwald is the Executive Director of the Thomas Edison Media Arts Consortium – Thomas Edison Film Festival and the NJ Young Filmmakers’ Festival. She curates and presents film programs for venues across the US and abroad, and hosts talks with filmmakers internationally.
Charlene Teters
Tuesday, October 18 at 6:30 PM
In-person. Visual Arts Complex auditorium, 1B20
Charlene Teters is a member of the Spokane Nation and is well known for her work as an artist, writer, educator, and activist. She rose to national prominence as a graduate student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where she led protests against the degrading depictions of American Indian caricatures used as sports team’s mascots and was the subject of the award-winning documentary, In Whose Honor, by Jay Rosenstein.
Department Announcements
Ceramics
Iowa Ceramics Invitational Exhibition
The faculty and graduate students in the Ceramics Area have been invited to exhibit their work at the University of Iowa Art Galleries in Iowa City. They were also invited to participate in a symposium that, along with the exhibition, included the best graduate programs in ceramics nationally.