Meryl Norton Hearst Lecture Series 2009-2010
Tim Rollins
October 2, 2009 | Kamerick Art Building 111 | 6:15-7:45 pm
Beginning in the mid 1980s Tim Rollins began an artistic collaboration with high school students in the South Bronx. The students called themselves KOS (Kids of Survival). Rollins is a cofounder of Group Material (1979), a collective of socially committed artists. Rollins continues to work with KOS thirty years after the group’s formation, though the individual members have changed over time. The art of Rollins + KOS has been shown worldwide and is in the permanent collections of more than seventy museums. His visit is in conjunction with the Art Educators of Iowa Conference.
Professor Richard DePuma
October 12, 2009 | Kamerick Art Building 111 | 7:30 pm
Richard DePuma is the F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Art History at the University of Iowa School of Art and Art History. His research in the area of ancient Roman and Etruscan art is widely published. He has also served as guest curator for a number of exhibitions of ancient art. From 2001-2004 he was the Co-Director of the Excavations at Crustumerium in Rome. His lecture is titled "Newly-discovered Etruscan Tomb Paintings at Sarteano." Six years ago, on October 11, 2003, Italian archaeologists discovered a subterranean chamber tomb in one of the Etruscan cemeteries of Sarteano, in central Tuscany. The tomb had been looted centuries ago and even used for shelter during the medieval period, but elaborate frescoes are still preserved on several walls. His lecture explores the narrative subjects, compares the frescoes with relevant paintings in other tombs and on Greek and Etruscan vases, and posits subjects for the frescoes that are damaged or missing. In the process, we gain a better understanding of Etruscan concepts of the afterlife in the late 4th century B.C.
Lynda Barry
November 9, 2009 | Kamerick Art Building 111 | 7:30 pm
Lynda Barry is an artist and author who has been described as ”one of the most successful non-mainstream American cartoonists”. Barry is perhaps best known for her weekly comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek. Her book The Good Times Are Killing Me focuses on the emotional world of children through the friendship of two girls, one black, one white. What It Is (2008) is a graphic novel that is part memoir, part collage and part workbook in which Barry instructs her readers in methods to open up their own creativity. What It Is won the 2009 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work.
Judy Pfaff
November 16, 2009 | Kamerick Art Building 111 | 7:30 pm
Judy Pfaff is a MacArthur Award winning artist best known for her sculptural and installation work. She has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Nancy Graves Foundation, and the Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation among others. Her work has been exhibited throughout the world and is in the collections The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts and the Brooklyn Museum among others.
Patti Warashina
February 9, 2010 | Kamerick Art Building 111 | 7:30 pm
Patti Warashina is a ceramic sculptor who will be here in conjunction with an exhibition of narrative ceramics in the UNI Gallery of Art. Her work is in the collection of museums in the United States, Australia, South Korea and Japan. Among these institutions are: the American Craft Museum; The Los Angeles Museum of Art; the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery and the Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art. She has been the recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ford Foundation. She also received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Washington College of Arts and Sciences.
Matthew Woolman
March 29, 2010 | Kamerick Art Building 111 | 7:30 pm
Matthew Woolman is the author of seven books that have received awards from Print magazine, American Institute of Graphic Arts, and the Art Directors’ Club. His work has been reproduced in How, Étapes Graphiques, Print, and Graphis magazines. In 2005, his two most recent books, Motion Design and Type in Motion, were released. He is Founder and Principal of Plaid Studios, an intermedia design, development and production company.
Anna Gaskell
April 8, 2010 | Kamerick Art Building 111 | 7:30 pm
Anna Gaskell, a Des Moines native, is best known for her photographs in the series Wonder and Override. These large format color photographs are described as a “loose re-interpretation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland.” They are rich with the suggestion of awakening and ritual with an undercurrent of sexual tension. Her work has been widely exhibited in the United States and Europe. Her work was included in Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art and Moving Pictures at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and Bilboa, Spain. In 2001-02 her work was presented in a solo exhibition at the Des Moines Art Center.