Andrea Dezsö, associate professor of art at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, and maintains studios in New York City and Western Massachusetts, will present a free public lecture on Tuesday, March 10 at 5:30 p.m. in Richards Hall Rm. 15.
Dezsö is a visual artist who works across a broad range of media including drawing, painting, artist's books, embroidery, cut paper, animation, sculpture, site-specific installation and public art.
Her permanent public art has been installed in two New York City subway stations; at the United States Embassy in Bucharest, Romania; and at City University of New York Borough of Manhattan Community College’s Fiterman Hall in Lower Manhattan. “Community Garden,” Dezsö's mosaic in the New York City subway, was recognized as Best American Public Art in 2007 by Americans for the Arts.
Dezsö is also an award-winning illustrator whose work has been featured in books, magazines, album covers and signage, and by The New York Times, Harper's, Sony Music, Princeton University Press, The New York Botanical Garden, New York University and Candlewick Press.