MEDIA CONTACT: Polly Burks
561-297-2595, pburks@fau.edu
BOCA RATON, FL (September 11, 2006) – The University Galleries in Florida Atlantic University’s Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters will present a series of contemporary art lectures with visiting and local artists from September 21 through October 24. The lectures will take place in the Performing Arts Building, Room 101 (unless otherwise noted) on the Boca Raton campus, 777 Glades Road. All events are free and open to the public.
On Thursday, September 21 at 7 p.m., there will be a lecture by Allison Smith and Julie Lara Kahn. Smith, a New York-based sculpture and installation artist, will discuss her project to create an installation that will appear concurrently with the “Weavings of War” exhibition at FAU in February, 2007. She will explore the role of traditional craft media in the construction of national identity and the politics of war. Smith was included in the 2005 Greater New York exhibition at the New York Museum of Modern Art’s P.S. 1 and several other recent national exhibitions. Kahn was born and resides in Miami. She is a recipient of the 2006 South Florida Cultural Consortium Visual and Media Artists Fellowship. Kahn will discuss her work entitled “Swamp Cabbage,” which is part of the FAU exhibition of the works of the 2006 Visual and Media Artists Fellowship recipients, on display from September 15 through October 28 in the Schmidt and Ritter Art Galleries.
In the remaining three lectures, other artists whose works are on display as part of the exhibition will discuss their works. Asser Saint-Val and John Bailly will appear on Tuesday, October 3 at 7 p.m. Saint-Val resides in Miami and has been very involved in the region’s Caribbean-related visual arts programs through an association with Diaspora Vibe Gallery in Miami. Bailly lives in Miami, and his work is in several public collections and has been exhibited widely, including a solo exhibition at The Art Gallery at the Government Center, Miami and group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, Jacksonville and the Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami.
On Wednesday, October 11 at 7 p.m., two video-filmmakers will discuss their work in the exhibition. Chad Tingle will screen his film “Another Day, Another Dollar” in General Classrooms South, Room 119. This film is similar to others that Tingle has produced in that it is inspired by issues specific or relative to Florida and its respective communities. Eric Freedman will give a gallery talk in the Ritter Art Gallery about his films. Freedman’s works have been exhibited in Florida, Minnesota, Louisiana and California. Freedman is an associate professor and coordinator of multimedia studies at FAU in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies.
For the final lecture in the series, Christina Louis Pettersson and Tim Curtis will appear on Tuesday, October 24 at 7 p.m. Pettersson has had solo exhibitions at Roket Projects, Miami and group exhibitions at Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York and the Vanersborg Museum in Sweden, among others. Curtis was recently an artist-in-residence at the Godown Arts Center in Nairobi, Kenya. His works are in permanent collections at Central Wyoming College, the Seoul Center in Seoul, Korea, and Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis.
For more information about the lecture series or exhibitions, call 561-297-2966.
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