Lincoln, Neb.—Amanda Maciuba will present the next Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture on Thursday, April 17 at 5:30 p.m. at Sheldon Museum of Art’s Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium. A reception will immediately follow the lecture at the Great Plains Art Museum. The lecture and reception are free and open to the public.
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.
Maciuba’s work is concerned with the landscapes, communities, development practices and environmental practices throughout the U.S. Her solo exhibition, “Watershed,” will be on view at the Great Plains Museum from April 4-Sept. 20, and she will be the Elizabeth Rubendall Artist-in-Residence from April 8-19.
Born and raised in the Buffalo, New York, area, Maciuba graduated from the University at Buffalo with a degree in visual studies. She has an MFA in printmaking and a Certificate of Book Arts from the University of Iowa. Maciuba’s work, which consists of drawing, printmaking, book arts and animation, considers how humans influence and attempt to change, destroy and recreate the natural environments around them.
She shows her work regularly throughout the United States and has participated in artist residencies at the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Indiana Dunes National Park Residency, the Lawrence Arts Center, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, the Kathmandu International Artist Residency and the Haystack Open Studio Residency. Currently, she teaches printmaking, drawing and book arts at Mount Holyoke College in Western Massachusetts.
View her work at https://www.amandamaciuba.com.
The remaining lecture in the series is:
• April 24: Norman Akers. Akers’ work is included in the spring exhibition “Exploding Native Inevitable,” at Sheldon Museum of Art. Akers is associate professor in the Department of Visual Art at the University of Kansas. As a Native American artist, he explores issues of identity, culture (including Osage mythos), place, and the dynamics of personal and cultural transformation in his work. View his work at https://normanakers.com.
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.
