KENT, Ohio – ӰҵӰҵ University School of Art will present several virtual lectures with internationally-known visiting artists and scholars this April. These virtual talks will include appearances from Rachel Eulena Williams, Glenn Adamson, Dawit L. Petros, and Naeem Mohaiemen. These lectures are free and open to the public and will take place virtually over Zoom.
Rachel Eulena Williams: Friday, April 2, 2021 from 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Glenn Adamson: Friday, April 9 from 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Dawit L. Petros: Friday, April 23, 2021 from 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Naeem Mohaiemen: Friday, April 30, 2021 from 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Artist will give a virtual talk on Friday, April, 2, 2021 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Williams (b. 1991, Miami, Florida, USA) works at the boundaries between painting and sculpture. Her reconfigured canvases unbind painting from the stretcher, avoiding conventional support systems and imagining a myriad of spatial contortions. Williams’ drawings also manipulate the way images are presented, playing with assumptions about virtuosity through abstraction. Williams received a B.F.A. from Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York in 2013. Her work has been exhibited internationally. Rachel Eulena Williams currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
ӰҵGlobal Understanding Research Initiative with support from the School of Art will present a virtual lecture with artist and juror This virtual lecture accompanies ǰ/ǰ,” an international, outdoor art exhibition which will be on view April 5 to May 15 on Ӱҵ’s main campus. Ӱҵwebinar will be held on Friday, April 23, 2021 from 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Petros is a visual artist, researcher and educator. His work is informed by studies of global modernisms, theories of diaspora, and postcolonial studies. Petros completed the Whitney Independent Study Program, an MFA in Visual Art from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University; a BFA in Photography from Concordia University and a BA in History from the University of Saskatchewan. His work has been exhibited internationally. Dawit L. Petros is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Photography at ӰҵSchool of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Ӱҵ has partnered with the School of Art to present a virtual talk with artist and filmmaker, , whose work is currently on view at the museum. Ӱҵwebinar will be held on Friday, April 30, 2021 from 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Naeem Mohaiemen (Oberlin ‘93) combines films, drawings, sculpture, and essays to research the many forms of utopia-dystopia (families, borders, architecture, and uprisings)– beginning from South Asia’s postcolonial markers (1947, 1971) and then radiating outward to transnational alliances and collisions. He is a Mellon Teaching Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, New York, where he also received his Ph.D. In this lecture, Mohaiemen will speak about how the memory of the Ӱҵ shootings in 1970 loomed over Oberlin during the trial of “ ӰҵOberlin Six” students.
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Ӱҵ the School of Art: ӰҵSchool of Art at Ӱҵ University was established in 1941 and maintains a tradition of excellence in visual arts education, creation, scholarship and leadership. Its undergraduate and graduate programs in the visual arts offer a range of directions and opportunities in the fields of art education, art history, and studio art, which includes a comprehensive array of studio disciplines: ceramics, drawing, glass, jewelry/metals/enameling, painting, print media and photography, sculpture and expanded media, and textiles. ӰҵSchool of Art Collection and Galleries consist of six exhibition spaces located on the Kent campus and downtown Kent and a collection of over 4,000 artworks and objects. ӰҵSchool of Art is located at the Center of the Visual Arts at 325 Terrace Dr. in Kent. Ӱҵ27,900-square-foot facility — twice the length of a football field — had its grand opening in 2016 and houses all School of Art studios and classrooms under one roof.
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