The Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar lectures continue with presentations featuring five artists and scholars. Each lecture will take place at 5:30 p.m. in Sheldon Art Museum’s Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium. The lectures are free and open to the public.
On Oct. 30, Adrian Arleo and Jane Shellenbarger will present successive lectures. Their visit is sponsored by the UNL Clay Club. For the last 32 years, Arleo has lived and worked in Missoula, Montana. Her ceramic work is exhibited nationally and internationally and is in numerous public and private collections. In 1995, she was awarded a Montana Arts Council Individual Fellowship. Shellenbarger is a professor and graduate program director at Rochester Institute of Technology in the School for American Crafts. She established her studio pottery, Mill Station Pottery, in rural Hale, Michigan, in 1997.
On Nov. 6, Julia Blaut, the senior director of curatorial affairs at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, will present a lecture celebrating Rauschenberg’s centennial and enduring legacy with special attention to his prints. This lecture is presented in conjunction with Sheldon Museum of Art’s exhibition, “Robert Rauschenberg at the Flatbed Picture Plane.” The exhibition and related programs are supported by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. A graduate of Smith College, the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University and the Whitney Independent Study Program, Blaut was formerly assistant curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, where she worked on Rauschenberg’s late career retrospective. She has curated, taught and published in the field of postwar American art.
On Nov. 20, Pablo Helguera will present his lecture. Helguera is a visual artist living in New York and often considered a pioneering figure in the field of socially engaged art. His practice involves performance, drawing, pedagogy, installation, theater and other literary strategies. Coming from a family of classical musicians, his work also frequently includes musical elements. He is currently assistant professor of arts management and entrepreneurship at The College of the Performing Arts at The New School in New York. He writes a weekly column titled “Beautiful Eccentrics.”
Finally, Kristina Paabus, a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores systems of power, particularly in Soviet and post-Soviet contexts, will present her lecture Dec. 4. Working primarily in printmaking, she exhibits internationally. She lives and works in northeast Ohio, where she is director of OCREECAS, chair of studio art and associate professor of reproducible media at Oberlin College.
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. The series is presented in collaboration with Sheldon Museum of Art.
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.