Lecture rescheduled due to weather

calendar icon16 Jan 2014    

Dona Nelson's artist lecture has been rescheduled for 11:30 a.m. on Feb. 5th in Richards Hall 218.

Dona Nelson, a painter and professor of painting and drawing at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia, will present a free public lecture on Tuesday, February 4, at 5:30 p.m. in Richards Hall Rm. 15 on the UNL city campus.

Nelson is the recipient of numerous awards and grants including the 2013 Artist Legacy Foundation Award, a Tesuque Foundation Grant, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, and she is a 2011 Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant recipient. Her work can be found in private and public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Soloman R. Guggenheim Museum, the Contemporary Art Museum at the University of South Florida in Tampa, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadephia, and the Committee of the Visual Arts/M.I.T. Collection, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

She received her BFA from the Ohio State University and completed an independent study at the Whitney Museum in New York City.

Nelson's visit to UNL is made possible by the Hixson-Lied Endowment and the MEDICI Art Group.