{"id":868,"date":"2019-07-17T18:18:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T18:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wcsu.wpengine.com\/news-archives\/spring-2017-mfa-visiting-artist-lecture-series\/"},"modified":"2019-07-17T18:18:56","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T18:18:56","slug":"spring-2017-mfa-visiting-artist-lecture-series","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/spring-2017-mfa-visiting-artist-lecture-series\/","title":{"rendered":"WCSU 2017 &#8211; Spring semester MFA lecture series"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">&#013;<\/p>\n<div id=\"sharingTools\"><!-- #include virtual=\"\/include\/sharingtools.inc\" --><\/div>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<div id=\"breadcrumb\"><!-- #include virtual=\"\/include\/breadcrumb.inc\" --><\/div>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n    &#013;<\/p>\n<p><strong>DANBURY, CONN. <\/strong>\u2014 Nationally renowned painters, illustrators and multi-media  artists whose works have drawn inspiration from diverse sources spanning the  globe from France and Italy to Havana and Brooklyn will discuss their artistic  vision and creative process during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/\">Western Connecticut  State University<\/a> spring semester Master of Fine Arts lecture series  continuing from Jan. 31 through April 17, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p>All lectures, sponsored by the WCSU <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/art\/\">Department of Art<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/art\/mfa\/\">M.F.A. in Visual Arts<\/a> program, will be at  11 a.m. in Room 144 of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/svpa\/svpa-center-info.asp\">Visual and Performing Arts  Center<\/a> on the university\u2019s Westside campus, 43 Lake Ave. Extension in  Danbury. Admission will be free and the public is invited.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p>The series will begin on <strong>Tuesday, Jan. 31,<\/strong> with a lecture by illustrator <a href=\"http:\/\/edelr.com\/?section=about&amp;id=7\">Edel Rodriguez<\/a>, a  Havana-born immigrant who fled Cuba at the age of 9 with his family in the 1980  Mariel boatlift. Recipient of an M.F.A. from Hunter College, Rodriguez is a  regular contributor to The New York Times and The New Yorker and has designed  covers for magazines including Time, Newsweek, Business Week, Village Voice and  The Nation. He also has written and illustrated children\u2019s books and created  book covers for works published by Simon and Schuster and Penguin Random House.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez was named last year by Ad Age magazine as one of  the \u201cFifty Most Creative People of 2016.\u201d He has received numerous awards from  the Art Directors Club and the Society of Illustrators in New York, and his  works are held in many private and public collections including that of the  Smithsonian Institution in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p>Other presentations featured in the spring 2017 M.FA. artist  lecture series will include:<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Monday, Feb.  13: <\/strong>Painter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ninabuxenbaum.com\/\">Nina Buxenbaum<\/a> has  drawn from her Brooklyn upbringing in a multi-racial and politically active  family to find creative expression for themes of race and identity, notably in  her series of \u201cTopsy-Turvy\u201d doll paintings. Recipient of an M.F.A. in painting  from the Maryland Institute of Art, Buxenbaum maintains studios in Brooklyn and  Bethel, and serves as an associate professor and co-coordinator of fine arts at  York College of the City University of New York. Her paintings, drawings and  mixed-media works have been shown in nine solo exhibitions and more than 40  group shows across the United States. \u201cAs an African-American woman of mixed  heritage,\u201d Buxenbaum said, \u201cI approach my work as an opportunity to position  women of color in the Western art canon where we have been conspicuously  absent.\u201d She is featured in the \u201cWomen\u2019s Work\u201d exhibition from Jan. 26 through  March 12 at the Art Gallery of the WCSU Visual and Performing Arts Center.<\/li>\n<p>&#013;\n    <\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Monday, March  6: <\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharonlouden.com\/about.shtml\">Sharon Louden<\/a>, who received  her M.F.A. from Yale University, has pursued a multi-faceted career as a  teacher, editor of two books and artist who works in diverse media including  drawing, painting, sculpture, installation and animation. She published \u201cLiving  and Sustaining a Creative Life: Essays by 40 Working Artists\u201d in 2013, and her  second book, \u201cThe Artist as Culture Producer,\u201d is scheduled for release in  March. Her artistic work has appeared in exhibitions at numerous venues  including the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, the Drawing Center, Carnegie  Mellon University, Weisman Art Museum, the Birmingham Museum of Art,  Weatherspoon Art Museum and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. Current projects  include a major art installation opening this month in Houston and an animation  created for an abstract film screening premiering in May at the National  Gallery of Art in Washington. Her works are held in major collections including  the National Gallery, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Neuberger Museum  of Art, the Yale Art Gallery and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.<\/li>\n<p>&#013;\n  <\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0<strong>Wednesday, March 22: <\/strong>Painter and  printmaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/art\/marques.html\">Sabrina Marques<\/a>,  assistant professor of art foundation and faculty critic for the M.F.A. program  at WCSU, has taught widely at colleges and arts schools across Connecticut and received  the Golden Educator award from the National Art Education Association for her  teaching and artistic work. Her development as an artist included studies at  Columbia University, the International School of Art in Italy and an  apprenticeship with theatre and movie director Julie Taymor, followed by  completion of an M.F.A. in painting and printmaking in 2003 at the Yale School  of Art. Her works have been exhibited at Artspace in New Haven and the  Wallspace and Morgan Lehman galleries in New York, and her 2007 solo exhibition  at Real Art Ways in Hartford explored her heritage as the daughter of a Cuban  exile. Honors have included a Vermont Studio School fellowship, Radius Program  selection at the Aldrich Museum, and an artist residency at the Josef and Anni  Albers Foundation. <\/li>\n<p>&#013;\n    <\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0<strong>Monday, April 3: \u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ericaho.com\/biography\/cv\/\">Eric Aho<\/a>, an internationally acclaimed artist residing in Vermont who is best known for his paintings created through the process of gestural abstraction and evoking natural forms, has presented 45 solo exhibitions and participated in more than 60 group exhibitions worldwide during the past three decades. Aho received his B.F.A. from the Massachusetts College of Art and pursued advanced studies in England, Finland and Cuba, where he participated in a groundbreaking scholarly exchange in 1989. He is represented by the D.C. Moore Gallery in New York, where he has staged four shows since 2009. During 2016 he staged the solo exhibitions \u201cIce Cuts\u201d at the Hood Museum of Art in New Hampshire and \u201cAn Unfinished Point in a Vast Surrounding\u201d at the New Britain Museum of American Art, inspired by French landscapes from his father\u2019s experiences in World War II.  His works are held in more than 25 public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, the National Academy Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Fine Arts Museum in San Francisco, as well as in Scandinavia, Ireland, Cuba and South Africa. He serves as a visiting artist at many colleges including WCSU and has received numerous residencies and honors including the John Koch Award for Painting, Julius Hallgarten Prize and National Academician election from the National Academy. <\/li>\n<p>&#013;\n    <\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0<strong>Monday, April 17: \u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mica.edu\/News\/If_Not_for_You_Bill_Schmidt_shows_at_Geoffory_Young_Gallery.html\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mica.edu\/News\/If_Not_for_You_Bill_Schmidt_shows_at_Geoffory_Young_Gallery.html\">Bill Schmidt<\/a>, director of the Post-Baccalaureate Program in Fine Art at the LeRoy Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), has shown his abstract paintings, drawings and sculptures extensively at galleries across the eastern United States. Recipient of an M.F.A. in painting from MICA, Schmidt recently staged solo exhibitions at the Hiller Art Space in Washington, the Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts in Annapolis and St. Joseph\u2019s University in Philadelphia, and participated in group shows at the Drawing Center in New York, Long Island University and the Geoffrey Young Gallery in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He also has played traditional American music on fiddle, banjo and guitar in recordings and performances spanning four decades in the United States, Canada and Europe.<\/li>\n<p>&#013;\n  <\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>&#013;<br \/>\n      For more information, contact the WCSU Department of Art at (203)  837-8403.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p><em>Western  Connecticut State University offers outstanding faculty in a   range of quality  academic programs. Our diverse university community   provides students an  enriching and supportive environment that takes   advantage of the unique  cultural offerings of Western Connecticut and   New York. Our vision: To be an  affordable public university with the   characteristics of New England\u2019s best  small private universities.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<div id=\"facebookShare\"><!-- #include virtual=\"\/include\/facebookshare.inc\" --><\/div>\n<p>&#013;\n        <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; &#013; &#013; &#013; DANBURY, CONN. \u2014 Nationally renowned painters, illustrators and multi-media artists whose works have drawn inspiration from diverse sources spanning the globe from France and Italy to Havana and Brooklyn will discuss their artistic vision and creative &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-868","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}