Four artists will be presenting Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar lectures in March in the School of Art, Art History & Design. The series begins with photographer Millee Tibbs on Wednesday, March 2.
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.
Each lecture takes place at 5:30 p.m. in Richards Hall Rm. 15. The lectures are free and open to the public. The lectures will also be accessible remotely via Zoom.
Tibbs’ work derives from her interest in photography’s ubiquity and the tension between its truth-value and inherent manipulation of reality. Tibbs is an associate professor of photography at Wayne State University.
She holds an M.F.A. in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design. She is the recipient of two MacDowell fellowships, as well as multiple national and international artist residency awards. Her work has been published by the Humble Arts Foundation (New York City) and the Aperture Foundation and is held in the permanent collections of the George Eastman Museum, Detroit Institute of Arts, the Chrysler Museum, the Portland Art Museum and the RISD Museum (Rhode Island School of Design).
Tibbs’ lecture will be available on Zoom at https://unl.zoom.us/j/97076352413.
On March 9, Rachel Adams, the chief curator and director of programs at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, will present the next lecture. Her lecture will be available on Zoom at https://unl.zoom.us/j/93721090605.
Adams’ areas of interest are varied, but always focus on creating meaningful connections for artists. She focuses on the crossover between contemporary art and architecture, performance and video and new media practices.
Her past curatorial appointments include Senior Curator at UB Art Galleries, Curator-in-Residence at Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, and Associate Curator at Arthouse at the Jones Center (now The Contemporary Austin).
On March 10, graphic designer Gregory Schmidt will present a lecture. He is practicing in Richmond, Virginia, and also works as an exhibition graphic designer at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. His lecture will be available on Zoom at https://unl.zoom.us/j/98197781628.
His multi-disciplinary approach reflects techniques and practices found in brand systems, print publications, environmental and exhibition design. He maintains a focus in typography, image making, visual storytelling, photography and graphic design for built spaces.
He currently works as an exhibition graphic designer at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Schmidt holds a Bachelor of Arts in graphic design from Flagler College and a Master of Fine Arts in visual communication from Virginia Commonwealth University.
On March 23, Kathryn Gleason will present a lecture. Gleason is professor of landscape architecture and a member of the Cornell Institute for Archaeology and Material Studies (CIAMS) at Cornell University. Her lecture will be available on Zoom at https://unl.zoom.us/j/92305010114.
A leading expert on the archaeology of ancient Roman gardens and designed landscapes, Gleason has directed or consulted on excavations at the palaces of Herod the Great of Judea (Israel; Palestine), the Petra Garden and Pool Project (Jordan), Horace’s Villa at Licenza and the Villa loc. Santa Maria at Nemi (Italy).
Working closely with Amina-Aicha Malek and Kim J. Hartswick, she oversaw the completion of Wilhelmina Jashemski’s Gardens of the Roman Empire publication project (Cambridge University Press 2018 and an online publication https://roman-gardens.github.io/about/).
In 2009, she began work in the Vesuvian region, first on the villa gardens of Stabiae and currently on an urban garden at Pompeii, the Casa della Regina Carolina.
The remaining lectures in the series are:
• April 6: Chip Thomas, interdisciplinary. Thomas, a.k.a. jetsonorama, is a photographer, public artist and physician, who has been working in a small clinic on the Navajo Nation since 1987. Zoom link: https://unl.zoom.us/j/93570308270.
• April 13: David Lubin, art history. Film and art historian Lubin will present a lecture titled “Edward Hopper and Classic American Cinema.” He is the Charlotte C. Weber Professor of Art at Wake Forest University. Zoom link: https://unl.zoom.us/j/94380775980.
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.
Currently, UNL no longer requires face masks inside our campus buildings, but we encourage masking indoors, especially if social distancing cannot be maintained. Details, exclusions and updates can be found on the UNL website at https://covid19.unl.edu.
For more information on the series, contact the School of Art, Art History & Design at (402) 472-5522 or e-mail schoolaahd@unl.edu.