Lincoln, Neb.—Multidisciplinary visual artist Kristina Paabus will present the next Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture on Thursday, Dec. 4 at 5:30 p.m. at Sheldon Museum of Art’s Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Paabus is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus in printmaking. Her work examines systems of power and control, with a particular focus on Soviet and Post-Soviet histories.
Earning her B.F.A. degree from the Rhode Island School of Design and M.F.A. degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Paabus also studied fine arts and religious studies at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and printmaking at the Estonian Academy of Arts.
Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States, Europe and China. Paabus is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship for Installation Art in Estonia, the Grant Wood Fellowship in Printmaking at The University of Iowa, an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, the Southern Graphics Council International Guanlan Residency Award, and Oberlin College faculty grants.
Paabus has attended numerous artist residencies, including the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center in Nebraska City and the Guanlan Original Printmaking Base in China.
She lives and works in northeast Ohio, where she is director of OCREECAS, chair of studio art and associate professor of reproducible media at Oberlin College.
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.
