Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist series features sculptor Amery
calendar icon26 Feb 2018
Lincoln, Neb.--Sculptor Trevor Amery will present the Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture on Wednesday, Feb. 28.
The lecture begins at 5:30 p.m. in Richards Hall Rm. 15. It is free and open to the public.
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s 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.
Amery represented the U.S. at the 2012 Kathmandu International Art Festival and has exhibited at such venues as Kiasma, the Skanzen Museum, MAMU Galerie, Moore College, and Gallery Protocol. He is currently exhibiting at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art and is an artist in residence (A.I.R.) at Bemis in Omaha. His upcoming artist in residency will be at the YZ Creative Art Center in China. He will also be exhibiting at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery.
Amery received his B.F.A. from MICA and his M.F.A. from the University of California San Diego. He also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Hungary and a Santo Foundation Individual Artist Award.
The remaining lectures in the series are:
• March 28, 2018: Patricia Johnston. Johnston studies how early American arts were influence by global trade, especially trade with Asia. She is the Rev. J. Gerard Mears, S.J., Chair in Fine Arts and Chair of the Visual Arts Department at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester Massachusetts, and a nationally recognized scholar of American art and its wider visual culture.
• April 5, 2018: Robert Storr. Storr is an artist, critic and curator. He was appointed professor of painting/printmaking and dean of the Yale University School of Art in 2006 and was named the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Dean in 2014.
Each lecture begins at 5:30 p.m. in Richards Hall Rm. 15. The lectures are free and open to the public.
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.