Recent Lectures in
MU Art & Design Wednesday Lecture Series

George Caleb Bingham Gallery
5:00 pm every Wednesday

Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Daniel Farnum: "Career Options as an Artist: Professional and Academic"
This is the first in a new series of lectures that take place on Wednesday evenings in the George Caleb Bingham Gallery. The series will include lectures by a wide range of artists talking about a variety of issues in the arts as well as their their own work.

Wednesday, February 13
Chris Lowrance

Wednesday, February 20
Chris Daniggelis
Christopher Daniggelis is a visiting assistant professor in printmaking at the University of Missouri Art Department. Daniggelis is a restless innovator his field, merging new technology with traditional methods and upending the conventions of the multiple. His prints are featured in the current group exhibition at the Bingham Gallery, Vantage Points. Come see his work in person and hear him talk about it.
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Wednesday, February 27
JJ Higgins: "issues in the non-space."
JJ Higgins is a visiting assistant professor in video and animation at the University of Missouri Art Department. Her work is a hybrid, a multidisciplinary approach that combines media and performance and applies critical theory. The title of her lecture is "issues in the non-space."
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Wednesday, March 5
Anne Thompson: "Studio Process and Neo-Dada"
Anne Thompson is a visiting assistant professor in at the University of Missouri Art Department. Thompson, whose work includes paintings, large drawings and three-dimensional objects, will talk about studio process and how an artist develops a body of work. Her work can be seen at www.hudsonfranklin.com.
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Wednesday, March 12
Dan Anderson
Dan Anderson received his BS degree in Art Education from the University of Wisconsin – River Falls and his MFA degree from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills Michigan. A noted artist/educator, he headed the ceramic program at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville from 1976 until August 2002, when he retired after 32 years of teaching. A multiple grant/award recipient, he has received a NEA Artist Fellowship, twelve Illinois Arts Council grants (including six Artist Fellowships) and a Ford Foundation Grant. He is a Visiting Artist at MU.
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Wednesday, March 19
Brett Grill: "The Artist as Social Animal"
Brett Grill will talk about the importance for artists to seek out other people to talk to about their work, the history and problems with the idea of self-expression from the classical times to the present, and the idea of creating work out of the raw material of our own lives as artists.
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Wednesday, April 2
Caoimhghin O’Fraithile: "Shrine - in - Shrine"
Since Caoimhghin O’Fraithile received a Master of Fine Arts at The University of Missouri in 2000, he has traveled extensively taking part in artist residencies and shows on the international stage. Among these are The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2006 in Japan and The Unesco sponsored residency in Seoul, South Korea. He was also the recipient of a Pollockk-Krasner award in2005. Caoimhghin makes work that is semi-ritual in nature, creating primitive structures that are covered in white rags to symbolize votive offerings. The work often has a community element.
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Wednesday, April 9
John Murdock: "Image, Power, Culture: The Role of Visual Communications"
John Murdock is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Graphic Design. He has won numerous awards for his design work including a number of Awards of Excellence for his corporate identity work.
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Wednesday, April 23
Peregrine Honig
Peregrine Honig is a Kansas City based artist whose work can be seen in many of the major art museums in the country including the Chicago Art Institute, and the Kemper Museum of Art in Kansas City. In fact she was the youngest living artist to ever be included in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, in New York. Samples of her work can be seen at http://www.peregrinehonig.com.
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Wednesday, May 7
Melanie Lowrance
Melanie Lowrance is an instructor at the University of Central Missouri. She received an MFA from Indiana University. She does large scale drawings and specializes in the figure as symbol and contemporary theory. She won a juror's award in the "National Society of Arts and Letters Juried Exhibition" in both 2005 and 2006.
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