Three artists will present Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lectures this month in the School of Art, Art History & Design. Each lecture will take place at 5:30 p.m. in Richards Hall Rm. 15. The lectures are free and open to the public.
This month’s lectures include:
• March 6: Candice Methe. Methe is a full-time studio artist and educator living and working in western North Carolina. She has been a resident at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Red Lodge Clay Center and Roswell Artist in Residence Foundation and has exhibited nationally and internationally.
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.
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.
• March 20: Roberto Tejada. A translator, editor, essayist, art historian and cultural critic, Tejada is the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor at the University of Houston. He was awarded The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Poetry in 2021.
He is the author of art and media histories National Camera: Photography and Mexico’s Image Environment (2009) and Celia Alvarez Muñoz (2009), as well as catalog essays in Now Dig This!: Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980 (Hammer Museum, 2011) and Allora & Calzadilla: Specters of Noon (The Menil Collection, 2021).
His poetry collections include Why the Assembly Disbanded (2022), Todo en el ahora (2015), Full Foreground (2012), Exposition Park (2010), and Mirrors for Gold (2006), as well as Still Nowhere in an Empty Vastness (2019), a Latinx poetics on colonial settlement and cultural counter-conquest in art and literature of the Americas.
• March 27: Isabel Barbuzza. Barbuzza is professor in the sculpture and intermedia program in the University of Iowa’s School of Art and Art History. As a sculptor, she works in installations, objects and site-specific; she is interested in the power of materiality and the narratives that accompany them.
She uses old encyclopedias to create a tactile reading from manipulated paper. Discarded encyclopedias, for example, trace a history of Colonialism, and their information continues to perpetuate post-colonial legacies of Western superiority over the non-Western world. Barbuzza is very interested in the power and the possibilities of found materials. Other materials she has used are mussel shells, artificial flowers, honey wax combs, copper and many others.
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.
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.