Home

Fall 2005 Speaker Series

 
 


ANTONETTE ROSATO
Artist’s Lecture, Tuesday, October 18, 2005. 7:15 PM in Art B-01.
    Rosato is an associate professor of sculpture at the University of Colorado at Boulder where her research interests include installation, collaboration and public art reflecting a strong interest in visual literacy, sustainable paradigms and collaboration.
    She received her MFA from Claremont Graduate School in 1976, studied at the Woman's Building, Los Angeles, CA in 1975 and received her BFA (Cum Laude) from the University of Cincinnati in 1974.
There will be an installation of her current work in the Folio Gallery of the School of Art from October 10 – 21.
 
 
 

MICHAEL JERRY
Artist’s Lecture, Monday, October 24, 2005. 7:15 PM in Art B-01.
   Michael Jerry is professor emeritus of the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts, School of Art & Design in Syracuse, New York. He directed the metalsmithing program at Syracuse from 1970 until his retirement. He studied at the Rochester Institute of Technology School for American Craftsmen and at the Cranbrook Academy of Art.
  Jerry is internationally recognized for his superb metalsmithing. His artwork is in numerous museum collections including the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and Yale University in New Haven.
 
 
 

 
KAY ALMERE READ
Time and Sacrifice Among the Aztec
Artist's Lecture: Wednesday, October 26, 2005. 7:15 PM in Art B-01.

 Dr. Read is the St. Vincent DePaul Professor of Religious Studies at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. Her Doctorate was received from the University of Chicago. Her dissertation topic was “Binding Reeds and Burning Hearts: Mexica-Tenochca Concepts of Time and Sacrifice.” She also received an MA in Divinity from the University of Chicago and a BA (Magna Cum Laude) in Religious Studies from the University of Colorado.
   She has published numerous scholarly books, articles and essays on the subject of the Aztec and in 2001 also served as co-editor of Suffer the Little Children: Reflections on the Cross, Urban Violence, and Sacred Space (UK: University of Birmingham Press).
 
 
 
 
MARILYN WALIGORE
Artist’s Lecture: Monday, November 7, 2005. 7:15 PM in Art B-01.
   Waligore is an associate professor of digital art at the University of Texas at Dallas. She received an MFA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1985 and a BFA from the University of California, Berkeley in 1981.
   Waligore works in digital photography and has been included in numerous exhibitions exploring the new territory of digital manipulation and output. Her photographs can be found in various public collections including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Elvejhem Museum of Art in Madison, and Loyola University.
 
 
 



 


BRAD SCHWIEGER

Workshop: Friday & Saturday, November 18-19, 2005
(call 806-742-1947 for details).
    Schwieger is a rising star in field of ceramics. He has an MFA from Utah State University in Logan (1983) and a BFA from the University of Iowa in Iowa City (1981).
    His architectural ceramic vessels have graced the covers of important ceramics publications such as Ceramics Monthly.
    Schwieger’s work has been exhibited internationally and he has won various grants and awards including the Gallery Estudi, Poble Expanyol in Barcelona, Spain (2002) and a residency at the Seto City Ceramic and Glass Art Center in Seto, Japan (2001).