Two lectures remain in the fall Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series in the School of Art, Art History & Design.
Christine Hult-Lewis, the interim pictorial curator at the Bancroft Library, the special collections library at the University of California Berkeley, presents on Wednesday, Oct. 25 at 5:30 p.m. in Richards Hall Rm. 15. Her lecture, titled “A New Kind of Evidence: Landscape Photography in the Courtroom in the American West,” is free and open to the public.
Terry James Conrad, assistant professor and program head of printmaking at the University of Iowa, will present on Thursday, Nov. 30 at 5:30 p.m. in Richards Hall Rm. 15. His lecture is free and open to the public.
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.
Hult-Lewis has taught classes on the history of photography and photographs of the American West at Boston University and the University of California Berkeley, and she has written on 19th century culture and photography.
At Bancroft, she curated several exhibitions on California painting, the history of photobooks, community and identity in Western photography, and the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.
She co-authored the award-winning study of 19th century landscape photographer Carleton Watkins titled “Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs” (Getty, 2011), and her most recent publication is an essay on postwar women’s photobooks in the award-winning book “What They Saw: Historic Photobooks by Women” (10x10Photobooks, 2021).
Conrad is an Iowa Print Media Faculty Fellow and also serves as the University of Iowa liaison to Frogman’s Print Workshops.
He grew up in New York state and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Alfred University and his Master of Fine Arts degree from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He previously taught at Skidmore College and assisted his partner, Rachel Ziegler-Sheridan, in founding the Round Lake School, which is a preschool/residency that follows the teaching philosophies of Reggio Emelia.
Conrad has had solo, two-person and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. In 2017, he was a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Drawing, Printmaking and Book Arts. He has been awarded residencies at Frans Masereel Centrum (Belgium), Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency (New York), Penland School of Craft (North Carolina) and the Vermont Studio Center.
Conrad’s work often revolves around scientific collaborations and tool making. In 2023 he is starting a new project, a continued collaboration with scientists Dr. Joan Bernhard (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) and Dr. Catherine Davis (North Carolina State University), which is funded by a National Science Foundation Award. He will develop a series of new works surrounding the research of these two scientists, as well as the experience of shadowing their scientific team on a research voyage on the Pacific Ocean in September 2023.
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.