2012-2013 Visiting Artist Lecture Series

Fall 2012

1. September 6

   David Leigh

   Leigh combines unusual forms, clashing colors and confused space to create work where the final image holds clues to the moves, mistakes and corrections that mapped their construction.

2. September 20

   Gregory Witt

   Employing materials and processes from carpentry, robotics, and video, Witt builds unlikely and often absurd versions of familiar objects and ideas.

3. October 11

   Richard Rezac

   Using aluminum, bronze, plaster, and wood Rezac incorporates contrasting materials and forms with a single object.

4. October 25

   Martin Mazorra

   Martin Mazorra co-founded Cannonball Press with Michael Houston in 1999 as an alternative press, publishing both their own prints and those of emerging artists.

5. November 8

   Andrew Shea

   Author of "Designing for Social Change," Shea is a graphic designer, writer, and educator based in New York City.

Spring 2013

1. January 17

   Robert "Boomer" Moore

   A process oriented artist who enjoys diversity in both materials and fabrication methods, Boomer balances his passion for clay and ceramics processes and his fascination with toys and animation.

2. February 7

   Dr. Beth Mulvaney

   J. Bernard Schultz Endowed Lecture in Art History

   
   

   A specialist in Italian late-medieval and early Renaissance art. Mulvaney's current scholarly work focuses on Santa Maria dei Miracoli in Venice, Duccio, Giotto, and cycle of St. Francis, particularly those at San Francesco, Assisi.

3. March 7

   Mel Chin

   Deem Distinguished Lecture

   
   

   Chin insinuates art into unlikely places, including destroyed homes, toxic landfills and even popular television. She investigates how art can provoke greater social awareness and responsibility.

4. April 18

   Zhang Youxian

   An artist who specializes in Chinese figure, landscape, and flower and bird painting, Zhang has been recognized as one of the most famous contemporary Chinese painting masters.