Lincoln, Neb.—The UNL Clay Club welcomes two visiting ceramic artists, Adrian Arleo and Jane Shellenbarger, who will present successive Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar Lectures on Thursday, Oct. 30 at 5:30 p.m. at Sheldon Museum of Art’s Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium. The lectures are free and open to the public.
Arleo studied art and anthropology at Pitzer College and received her M.F.A. in ceramics from Rhode Island School of Design.
She was an artist-in-residence at Oregon College of Art and Craft, at Sitka Center for Art and Ecology and in 2012 was an invited artist for the Jordan Schnitzer Printmaking Residency, also at Sitka Center for Art and Ecology.
Her work is exhibited nationally and internationally and is in numerous public and private collections. She has received awards from the Virginia A. Groot Foundation in 1991 and 1992, and in 1995, was awarded a Montana Arts Council Individual Fellowship. Her work has been widely published in books, magazines, and on the internet.
Shellenbarger was born in Detroit, Michigan. She was a CORE student at Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina, from 1987-1989.
She received her B.F.A. degree from the Kansas City Art Institute and her M.F.A. from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Following graduate school, she worked as a resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts in Helena, Montana. She established her studio pottery, Mill Station Pottery, in rural Hale, Michigan, in 1997.
Currently she is a professor and graduate program director at Rochester Institute of Technology in the School for American Crafts. She has taught at Northern Michigan University, Kansas City Art Institute, the University of Northern Iowa, Penland School of Crafts and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. She has exhibited her work in several galleries around the country.
The remaining lectures in the series are:
• Nov. 6: Julia Blaut. Blaut is the senior director of curatorial affairs at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Celebrating the artist’s centennial, Blaut will deliver a lecture about Rauschenberg’s enduring legacy with special attention to his prints.
• Nov. 20: Pablo Helguera. Helguera is a visual artist living in New York and often considered a pioneering figure in the field of socially engaged art. His practice involves performance, drawing, pedagogy, installation, theater and other literary strategies. Coming from a family of classical musicians, his work also frequently includes musical elements.
• Dec. 4: Kristina Paabus. Paabus is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores systems of power, particularly in Soviet and post-Soviet contexts. Working primarily in printmaking, she exhibits internationally and teaches at Oberlin College, where she is associate professor of studio art in reproducible media.
The School of Art, Art History & Design’s Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture Series brings notable artists, scholars and designers to Nebraska each semester to enhance the education of students. The series is presented in collaboration with Sheldon Museum of Art.
Underwritten by the Hixson-Lied Endowment with additional support from other sources, the series enriches the culture of the state by providing a way for Nebraskans to interact with luminaries in the fields of art, art history and design. Each visiting artist or scholar spends one to three days on campus to meet with classes, participate in critiques and give demonstrations.
For more information on the series, contact the School of Art, Art History & Design at (402) 472-5522 or e-mail schoolaahd@unl.edu.
