WCSU MFA VISITING ARTIST LECTURE WITH FRITZ HORSTMAN, INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTIST:
Wednesday, Feb. 25, 11 a.m.
Visual & Performing Arts Center, Room 144, Westside campus

Free & Open to the Public. Limited Seating Available. Register to attend at www.eventbrite.com/e/visiting-artist-lecture-fritz-horstman-interdisciplinary-artist-tickets-1980209242149

Fritz Horstman is an artist, curator, and educator based in Bethany, Connecticut, where he is also Education Director at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. He received his B.A. from Kenyon College and his M.F.A. from Maryland Institute College of Art. His work has been shown throughout the U.S. and in Germany, Norway, Russia, and France.

Recent solo exhibitions of his sculptures, videos, performances, and works on paper have been held at the New Britain Museum of American Art in New Britain; at Municipal Bonds gallery in San Francisco; at Planthouse gallery in Manhattan; and at Jennifer Terzian Gallery in Litchfield. An exhibition of his Folded Palladiums will open at Municipal Bonds in March 2026. Recent awards and artist-in-residencies include Tusen Takk, The Arctic Circle Residency, and The Bauhaus Residency.

Horstman has curated exhibitions across Europe and the U.S., including “Anni Albers: In Thread and On Paper,” a traveling show most recently at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas. He also curated “Becoming Trees” at Concord Art in Concord, Massachusetts. As Education Director at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, he is the author of “Interacting with Color: A Practical Guide to Josef Albers’s Color Experiments,” published by Yale University Press in 2024. He has lectured and given workshops at l’École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris; Lebanese American University in Beirut; The Royal Academy of Art in London; MoMA, Yale University, Princeton University, and many other institutions.