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SUMMARY:Visiting Artist Lecture
DESCRIPTION:VISITING ARTIST LECTURE WITH GLENN GOLDBERG\, PAINTER:\nWednesday\, April 1\, 11 a.m. \nVisual & Performing Arts Center\, Room 144\, Westside campus \nFree & Open to the Public. Limited Seating Available – RSVP required. Reserve tickets at www.eventbrite.com/e/visiting-artist-lecture-glenn-goldberg-painter-tickets-1980476598820 \nGlenn Goldberg is a NYC artist and musician who was born in Bronx\, New York. He studied at the New York Studio School and earned his B.A. and M.F.A. degrees from Queens College\, CUNY. He has taught at Cooper Union\, New York Studio School\, and Queens College\, where he was Professor and Chair of Graduate Studio Art. He also has been a panelist and visiting artist for numerous M.F.A. painting programs in the U.S. In June of this summer\, he will teach at Umbria Contemporary Arts in Italy\, a new art center and school in the medieval village of Monte Castello di Vibio. \nA recipient of many awards\, Goldberg has received grants from the Edward Albee Foundation\, the Guggenheim Foundation\, the Joan Mitchell Foundation\, Sharpe-Walentas\, Urban Glass\, and the National Endowment for the Arts. His work has been reviewed in The New York Times\, LA Times\, New Yorker\, and Chicago Tribune\, among others. In “Hyperallergic\,” art historian Jennifer Samet described his paintings as “ethereal\,” as a “meeting point of the ordinary and the other.” \nGoldberg is a member of The National Academy of Design and is currently represented by Chris Sharp in Los Angeles and The Approach in London. He has shown extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe\, with work in many museum collections\, including: the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Guggenheim Museum; the Brooklyn Museum; the National Gallery of Art; and the Museum of Contemporary Art\, Los Angeles.
URL:https://www.wcsu.edu/events/calendar/visiting-artist-lecture-7/
LOCATION:VPAC Room 144\, 43 Lake Ave. Extension\, Danbury\, CT
CATEGORIES:Art,Lectures,Public Events,Speaker
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SUMMARY:Visiting Artist Lecture
DESCRIPTION:VISITING ARTIST LECTURE WITH HANGAMA AMIRI\, INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTIST:\nWednesday\, April 29\, 11 a.m. \nVisual & Performing Arts Center\, room 144\, WCSU\, Westside campus\nFree & Open to the Public. Limited Seating Available – RSVP required. Reserve tickets at www.eventbrite.com/e/visiting-artist-lecture-hangama-amiri-interdisciplinary-artist-tickets-1980479671009. \nHangama Amiri\, born in Peshawar\, Pakistan\, is an Afghan-Canadian artist. She works predominantly in textiles to explore ideas of home and the impact of gender\, social norms\, and geopolitical conflict on women’s lives in Afghanistan and the diaspora. Using a painterly approach to color and materials\, she examines how everyday objects\, such as a passport\, a vase\, and celebrity postcards\, are imbued with cultural memory and carry political and personal significance. \nAmiri earned her M.F.A. from Yale University in 2020. She received her B.F.A. from NSCAD University in Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, and was a Canadian Fulbright and Post-Graduate Fellow at Yale’s School of Arts and Sciences in 2015-2016. Last year\, she was shortlisted for the 2025 Sobey Art Award\, Canada’s premier contemporary visual arts prize\, in an exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada. \nAmiri’s work has been shown nationally and internationally since 2017\, with solo shows in the U.S.\, Canada\, Italy\, France\, Germany\, and the UK. Recent exhibitions include the Esker Foundation\, Calgary; Toronto Biennial 2024; Mönchehaus Museum Goslar\, Germany; Aga Khan Museum\, Toronto; and Sharjah Biennial 15\, United Arab Emirates. In 2023\, her solo exhibition “A Homage to Home” was held at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield\, with a published catalog. It was reviewed by The New York Times\, and traveled to the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City. Amiri is a recipient of multiple grants\, awards\, and artist residencies\, along with work in public collections\, including the Denver Art Museum.
URL:https://www.wcsu.edu/events/calendar/visiting-artist-lecture-6/
LOCATION:VPAC Room 144\, 43 Lake Ave. Extension\, Danbury\, CT
CATEGORIES:Art,Lectures,Public Events,Visual & Performing Arts
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