With financial support from the Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture Series, the University of Nebraska–Lincoln Clay Club is bringing Lauren Gallaspy and Sunkoo Yuh to campus for demonstrations and consecutive public lectures on October 30th.
Public demonstrations will be at the following times in RH 117:
Thursday (10/31): 9:00 a.m. -11:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Friday (11/1): 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Lauren Gallaspy received her MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. She served as co-director and owner of Trace Gallery in Athens, Georgia, and she is recipient of a Joan Mitchell Painters & Sculptors Grant (2012) and an NCECA Emerging Artist recognition (2013). Gallaspy has exhibited nationally and internationally in over 80 group and solo exhibitions, including in the highly publicized “State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now” at Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas and “Beyond the Objects: The 72nd Scripps Ceramics Annual” in Claremont California. She currently resides in Los Angeles where she is a studio artist.
Sunkoo Yuh has exhibited widely and has received many awards and honors including a Joan Mitchell Foundation grant, the Grand Prize at the 2nd World Ceramic Biennale International Competition in Icheon, Korea, the Elizabeth R. Raphael Founder’s Prize, and a Virginia A. Groot Foundation grant. His work is in the collections of The Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., The Museum of Fine Arts, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, Houston, Houston, TX, Icheon World Ceramic Center, Icheon, Korea, the International Museum of Ceramic Art, Alfred, NY, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, the Oakland Museum of Art, California and more. Yuh is currently Professor at the Lamar Dodd School at the University of Georgia, Athens. His work is largely driven by implied narratives that often suggest socio-political critiques. His current focus is on large scale architectural sculpture and on pushing the scale of his medium.
The Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture Series is underwritten by the Hixson-Lied Endowment, with additional support from other sources. The program brings notable artists, scholars and designers to the University of Nebraska; enhancing the education of our students and enriching the culture of the state by providing a way for the public to interact with luminaries in the fields of art, art history and design. All lectures in this series are free and open to the public.