Lincoln, Neb.—Photographer Barbara Bosworth will present the next Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture on Wednesday, Feb. 18 at 5:30 p.m. in Sheldon Art Museum’s Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Bosworth’s large-format images explore both overt and subtle relationships between humans and the natural world.
Whether chronicling the efforts of hunters or bird banders or evoking the seasonal changes that transform mountains and meadows, Bosworth’s caring attention to the world around her results in images that inspire viewers to look closely.
Over her long career, Bosworth has photographed with a large-format 8x10 camera. Her single images display a generous attention to small facts, while her large-scale triptychs reveal a panoramic awareness, one that lets viewers glimpse relationships between frames across a wide field. All of Bosworth’s projects remind viewers not only that we shape nature but that it also shapes us.
Bosworth’s work has been widely exhibited, notably in solo exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (2024), Cleveland Museum of Art (2024), Denver Art Museum (2015), Peabody Essex Museum (2012), and Smithsonian American Art Museum (2008).
Bosworth’s monographs include The Meadow (2015), The Heavens (2018), and The Sea (2021) published by Radius Books. She has also published with Dust Collective, TIS Books, Datz Press, and MIT Press, among others.
Bosworth is the recipient of a 1995 Guggenheim Fellowship and the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award from The Cleveland Arts Prize.
Bosworth is Professor Emeritus of Photography at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
The remaining lectures in the series are:
• March 26: Binh Danh. Danh reimagines traditional photographic techniques to explore history, identity and place. Known for his contemporary daguerreotypes of National Parks, his reflective images invite viewers to see themselves within the American landscape. He is an associate professor of art at San José State University.
• April 9: Kevin Colls. Colls is a professional archaeologist and reader of archaeology working for the Centre of Archaeology based at the University of Huddersfield in the United Kingdom. For 24 years, he has directed and published archaeological projects throughout the United Kingdom and Europe and has widely travelled to sites across the world.
• April 16: Annette Becker. Becker is an arts educator and scholar whose research focuses on fashion history. She serves as the curator and director of the Texas Fashion Collection, an academic fashion archive at the University of North Texas.
• April 30: Sara Jimenez. Jimenez’s work materializes invisible histories and a kaleidoscopic connectedness she has to her ancestors and their land. She works in installation, sculpture, collage, and performance to create visual metaphors through fantastical environments and otherworldly, biomorphic objects. Most of her research and inspiration comes from learning about the landscape and narratives from her genealogical roots in Southeast Asia, the Pacific, and the ancient U.K.
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.
