The next Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist is ceramists, Candice Methe. She is a full-time studio artist and educator living and working in western North Carolina. Her lecture will be on Wednesday, March 6th at 5:30 pm in Richards Hall Rm. 15. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Candice Methe will also be giving demonstrations in the handbuilding studio on Thursday, March 7th from 8:30am-12:00pm and 1:30pm-5:00 pm, Friday, March 8th from 9:00am-12:00pm.
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.
Methe has been working in clay for 25 years. After receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in ceramics and art history from Northern Arizona University, she went on to earn a Master of Fine Arts in ceramics from the University of Minnesota.
During her career, she has been a resident at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Red Lodge Clay Center and Roswell Artist-in-Residence Foundation. She has exhibited her artworks nationally and internationally and has pieces in many private and public collections.
Most recently, she has made a home for herself in western North Carolina, where she works in a 200-square-foot studio that clings to the side of a mountain high up in the trees.