Hixson-Lied Visiting Artists & Scholars Lecture Series begins with Murphy-Price Feb. 4
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Murphy-Price received her M.A. in printmaking and painting from Purdue University and her M.F.A. in printmaking from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia.
She has exhibited in venues throughout the U.S. and abroad. Juried and group exhibitions include the 2009 International Printmaking Exhibitions in Jingdezhen, China; the 79th Annual International Print Center Competition in Philadelphia; the 2007 and 2005 Boston Printmakers Exhibition; and the 2009 Piccolo Spoleto Invitational Exhibition, in Charleston, South Carolina.
Murphy-Price has been an artist in residence at the Frank Lloyd Wright School, University of Hawaii-Hilo and Vermont Studio Center. Her work has been featured in such publications as Art Papers Magazine, Contemporary Impressions Journal, Art in Print, Printmaking: A Complete Guide to Materials and Process, and Printmakers Today. She resides in Tennessee, where she teaches at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
The Hixson-Lied Visiting Artists & Scholars Lecture Series is underwritten by the Hixson-Lied Endowment, with additional support from other sources. The program brings notable artists, scholars and designers to UNL’s Department of Art and Art History, enhancing the education of students and enriching the culture of the state by providing a way for Nebraskans to interact with luminaries in the fields of art, art history and design.
Richards Hall is located at Stadium Drive and T sts. For more information, contact the Department of Art and Art History at (402) 472-5522.
The remaining Hixson-Lied Visiting Artists & Scholars Lectures are:
• Photographer Bryan Schutmaat, Feb. 11 at 5:30 p.m. in Richards Hall Rm. 15. Schutmaat is an American photographer whose work has been widely exhibited and published in the U.S. and overseas.
• Studio Potter Steven Rolf, Feb. 23 at 5:30 p.m. in Richards Hall Rm. 15. Rolf lives and works as a studio potter in River Falls, Wisconsin, creating one-of-a-kind functional pots.
• Diane Favro, Feb. 29 at 7:30 p.m. in Bessey Hall Rm. 117. Favro is professor of architecture and urban design and associate dean of the UCLA School of Arts and Architecture. As a founder of the UCLA CVRLab and the UCLA Experiential Technologies Center, Favro was an early adopter of 3-D, real-time digital modeling for historical research.
• ArtStream, the mobile pottery gallery, will be at UNL March 7-8. Three guest artists will be coming, including Ayumi Horie, Lorna Meaden and Lisa Orr. There will be a lecture on the Artstream Mobile Gallery on Monday, March 7 at 10:30 a.m., location to be announced. Orr will present an artist talk on March 7 at 11:30 a.m. in Richards Hall Rm. 118. All three artists will give demonstrations on March 7 from 2-5 p.m. in Richards Hall Rm. 118. On Tuesday, March 8, Horie will present a lecture at 10:30 a.m., and Meaden will lecture at 11:30 a.m., both in Richards Hall Rm. 118. All three will again give demonstrations in Richards Hall Rm. 118 from 2-5 p.m.
• Sculptor Carlton Newton, March 31 at 5:30 p.m. in Richards Hall Rm. 15. Newton is currently on the faculty of the sculpture department at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he teaches courses in studio sculpture, contemporary art criticism and video and computer technology.
• Photographer Takashi Arai, April 5 at 5:30 p.m. in Richards Hall Rm. 15. Beginning in 2010, Arai used the daguerreotype technique to create individual records or micro-monuments of his encounters with surviving crew members and the salvaged hull of the Daigo Fuküryumaru, a nuclear fallout-contaminated fishing boat. This project led him to photograph the deeply interconnected subjects of Fukushima, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
• Deb Sokolow, April 28 at 5:30 p.m. in Richards Hall Rm. 15. Sokolow is a Chicago-based artist and a lecturer at Northwestern University. She is a 2012 recipient of an Artadia Grant and has participated in residencies nationally and internationally.
Additional artists may be added to the schedule. Visit https://go.unl.edu/63pf for updates.