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Artists Now!

Guest Lecture Series

The Department of Art & Design proudly presents Artists Now!, a Wednesday evening lecture series designed for a broad audience with an interest in contemporary visual art. It presents a diverse group of artists working across traditional, hybrid and emergent disciplines. Join these nationally and inter- nationally recognized practitioners as they explore and expand the boundaries of creative visual practice today.

All lectures take place on Wednesdays at 7 pm in the Arts Center Lecture Hall on the UWM campus. FREE and open to the public!

This series is supported in part by the Frederick R. Layton Fund, the John Colt Memorial Art Fund, CASA, Object and Inova.

9/12/12 - Jan-Ru Wan
9/19/12 - Hank Willis Thomas
9/26/12 - Oron Catts
10/3/12 - Arthur Hash
10/17/12 - Nicolas Lampert
10/24/12 - Elisabeth Subrin
10/31/12 - Cima Katz
11/7/12 - Hans Gindlesberger
11/14/12 - Emmanuel Pratt
11/28/12 - Xavier Toubes
2/6/13 - Olivia Gude
2/20/13 - Seitu Jones
2/27/13 - Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo
3/13/13 - Richard John Forbes
3/27/13 - Jesse Seay and Paul Hertz
4/10/13 - Nicole Jacquard
4/17/13 - Linn Meyers
4/24/13 - Dylan A.T. Miner

	September 12, 2012: Jan-Ru Wan - Re-Materialization: Creativity through Found Materials In this lecture, Wan discusses her use of materials and installation to demonstrate the transient nature of dream, desire, hope, despair, and life. To illustrate this concept, Wan uses fiber materials and found objects that reveal the individual and the universal simultaneously. WATCH THE LECTURE ON YOUTUBE
	September 19, 2012: Hank Willis Thomas In his work, Thomas deals with the often forgotten or avoided issues of race, class, and gender history through the familiar language of popular culture and advertising. He creates two-dimensional, sculptural, and digital time-based collage works that explore how visual culture of the past affects and intersects our current world views. WATCH THE LECTURE ON YOUTUBE
	September 26, 2012: Oron Catts - The (Semi) Living Tissue of Art This lecture discusses the work of the Tissue Culture and Art Project, as well as other uses of biological technologies and logic for art, design, and architecture. WATCH THE LECTURE ON YOUTUBE
	October 3, 2012: Arthur Hash - Crafting in a Digital Age Hash discusses how today’s craftsmen have the freedom to choose from any method of making or material that is available to them, giving them the ability to blur the boundaries of crafts and redefine their field. WATCH THE LECTURE ON YOUTUBE
	October 17, 2012: Nicolas Lampert - Visualizing a People’s History Lampert’s work addresses artists’ roles in urban ecology and social justice issues by asking two primary questions: How can artists help transform the rust belt into a green belt, and how can radical culture challenge the dominant culture and advocate for a more just and sustainable future? Lampert is a 2011 Nohl Fellow whose work will be shown in the Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists Exhibition at Inova Oct 5-Dec 9, 2012. WATCH THE LECTURE ON YOUTUBE
	October 24, 2012: Elisabeth Subrin - Recreating Missing Histories The Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University presents: The Curtis L. Carter Art & Social Change Lecture Featuring Elisabeth Subrin 6 p.m. lecture in Eckstein Hall (Marquette Law School) 7 p.m. reception at the Haggerty 13th and Clybourn streets on the Marquette University campus This is a different time and location than our regular lectures Subrin presents her work in film, video and photography which explores "minor histories," the legacy of feminism, and the impact of recent social and cultural history on the contemporary life and consciousness.
	October 31, 2012: Cima Katz - “untitled” Katz discusses how her background and conversations have influenced her studio research and related experiences. WATCH THE LECTURE ON YOUTUBE
	November 7, 2012: Hans Gindlesberger - Dead Reckoning Gindlesberger discusses his most recent project, which combines architectural and photographic processes to create sites that interweave global history with familial memory. Gindelsberger is a 2011 Nohl Fellow whose work will be shown in the Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists Exhibition at Inova Oct 5-Dec 9, 2012.
	November 14, 2012: Emmanuel Pratt - Work, Intuition and Practice Pratt will discuss re-framing the discourse of urban decline through the interface of asset-based community development, social economics, applied science, and project-based experiential learning.
	November 28, 2012: Xavier Toubes - Re-framing the Discourse Toubes shares his way of working and elaborates on his recent work in ceramic sculpture and mixed media.
	February 6, 2013: Aesthetic Geography: Collaborative Public Art by Olivia Gude Gude’s work, emerging from the Chicago street mural tradition, gives viewers fresh insights regarding self and community. With each project, she designs a customized sequence of activities that help participants reconsider experiences, and then creates innovative interventions suited to the site.
	February 20, 2013: Seitu Jones - hortiCULTURE: Art and Culture into Horticulture Jones examines the integration and blending of his artwork into agriculture, horticulture, water management, and community building.
	February 27, 2013: Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo - Slowness and the Everyday Jaramillo’s work characterizes the everyday by slowing viewers’ sense of time and making them aware of their own existence in transient space. This lecture addresses these concepts through Jaramillo’s recent works of digital photography, layered light boxes, and video.
	March 13, 2013: Richard John Forbes - The Mark of Temporal Repercussions & the Art of Letting Go Forbes speaks on the practice of creating artwork through print and mark-making. This art stands as a metaphor for our visual universe, fashioned by active involvement of the audience and marks made by daily life.
	March 27, 2013: Jesse Seay and Paul Hertz Jesse Seay is a sound artist and assistant professor at Columbia College Chicago. Her interest in field recordings led to the creation of the on-line archive, Favorite Chicago Sounds, in 2006. Her sound sculpture is on permanent display at the University of Chicago. Paul Hertz is an independent artist and curator who teaches new media art history and studio courses at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In his art, he delights in dysfunctional fortunetelling, faux symbolism, intermedia, code sourcery, glitching and social interfaces.
	April 10, 2013: Nicole Jacquard - Technology: Resisting Machine Aesthetics This lecture highlights the connections between innovative technology, traditional tools, and hand skills and shows how the computer has been adapted into Jacquard’s studio practice.
	April 17, 2013: Linn Meyers Meyers discusses her award-winning work, which has been exhibited worldwide with solo and group projects in numerous public and private collections.
	April 24, 2013: Dylan A.T. Miner - History, Memory, and Anti-Colonial Collaboration Miner speaks on his work with printmaking, art history, and collaborating with indigenous youth throughout the Americas, the Pacific, and Europe. He will discuss the artistic methodology of contemporary Indigenous and anti-colonial aesthetic practices.