School of Art | University of Arkansas

Visiting_Lecture_Series

Carmen Winant

_March 9 > Visiting Artist Lecture by Carmen Winant

Join the webinar at: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81595472742

Carmen Winant is an artist and the Roy Lichtenstein Chair of Studio Art at the Ohio State University; her work utilizes installation and collage strategies to examine feminist modes of survival and revolt.

Winant's recent projects have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, Sculpture Center, Wexner Center of the Arts, the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, and as part of the CONTACT Photography Festival, which mounted twenty-six of her billboards across Canada. Forthcoming projects will take place at The Print Center, Philadelphia, ICA Boston, and Minneapolis Institute of Art. Winant's recent artist’s books include My Birth, Notes on Fundamental Joy, and Instructional Photography: Learning How To Live Now; forthcoming books are Arrangements and A Brand New End: Survival and Its Pictures. Winant is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in photography, a 2020 FCA Artist Honoree and a 2021 American Academy of Arts and Letters award recipient. She is a mother to her two sons, Carlo and Rafa, shared with her partner, Luke Stettner.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

_March 30 > Visiting Scholar Lecture by J.T. Eisenhauer Richardson > Virtual > https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86867837184

_April 6 > Visiting Designer Lecture by Rick Griffith > Hillside Auditorium 206 > 5:30 p.m. CST

_April 13 > Visiting Scholar Lecture by Rachel Grace Newman > Hillside Auditorium 206 > 5:30 p.m. CST

News_and_events

_March 9 > Career in the Arts > at the Studio + Design Center in the Windgate Art + Design District > 696 Praxis Lane > 1-3 p.m.

_March 7-9 > Steve McGuire > Design, Build, Ride

The School of Art and Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas is pleased to announce it will be hosting Steve McGuire, Professor of 3D Design and Director of the School of Art and Art History at the University of Iowa. Professor McGuire is internationally recognized for his interdisciplinary coursework related to Hand-Built Bikes. Professor McGuire is scheduled to join us in Northwest Arkansas from March 6 – 9 to share his artistic practice and educative work related to bike building.

_March 7 and 9, Public Workshops at the Sculpture Building in the Windgate Art + Design District, 744 S. Hill from 9-11 a.m.

_March 6-9 visit Sculpture Gallery in the Sculpture Building from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

_March 9, Public Lecture by McGuire, Design, Build, Ride at the Collaborative Common Kitchen in Bentonville, Arkansas, 700 SE 5th St., 6-8 p.m.

_June 10-17 > Summer Arts Workshop for rising 10-12 high school students > FREE > Applications Open Now, Deadline March 20

Windgate_Arts_and_Design District

_Studio + Design Center > Now open to the public Monday-Thursday > 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. > Schedule a tour of the facility by emailing soart@uark.edu

The Windgate Arts and Design District has open the doors to the new Studio and Design Center where students are studying ceramics, graphic design, photography, printmaking, painting, and drawing.