Lectures (FALL 2009)


These are some of the many lectures occuring at SAIC.

Noon Hour Grad Presentations
Room: Sharp 903
Time: 12:10 pm (30-40 min duration)

Artist // Date
Holly Murkerson              Friday 9/25
Olivia Valentine               Thursday 10/1               
Emily Hermant                Monday 10/5
Liliya Lifanova                 Wednesday 10/14
Katie Waugh                   Wednesday 10/21
Nora Nieves                    Tuesday 10/27
Tanya Fleisher                Tuesday 11/3
Jesse Harrod                  Monday 11/9       
Tara Hills                        Thursday 11/19
Sayward Schoonmaker    Friday 12/4
Jongock Kim                   Wednesday 12/16

Fiber and Material Studies Departmental Lectures:

Carole Lung
Thurs Sept 17, 12 noon, SH 902
www.fraufiber.com
www.sewingrebellion.wordpress.com
TURN OUT – STAND OUT
Support of Alternative Apparel Economies!
A noontime lecture, by Carole Frances Lung AKA Frau Fiber textile worker and activist.  Utilizing a hybrid of playful activism, cultural criticism, research and spirited do-it-yourself to freely distribute her knowledge of apparel production to the masses.  Frau Fiber fancies herself to be a competitor with China in the global production of apparel, with the hopes of
transforming the value of labor of apparel workers around the globe. All of her efforts have proven futile, however she perseveres!

Virgil Marti
Thurs Oct 1, 6 pm, SAIC Auditorium, Columbus Drive
http://www.elizabethdeegallery.com/artists/view/virgil-marti
Winner of a Pew Fellowship in the Arts and a featured artist in the 2004 Whitney Biennial, Virgil Marti creates installations with fabric and wallpaper rooted in both interior design and fine art vocabularies. His work is included in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Fabric Workshop. According to the Philadelphia Post, Marti's "richly gaudy and
resonant environments aim to explore questions of taste and style, and the boundaries that separate art from design."  This lecture is made possible by The William Bronson and Grayce Slovet Mitchell Lectureship in Fiber and Material Studies.

Lacey Jane Roberts: 
Tues Oct 20, 12 noon, Price Auditorium,
Lacey Jane Roberts will talk about her studio work in a lecture entitled "Craft, Queerness, and Guerilla Tactics."   Roberts' work draws from queer feminist fiber histories and shifts into a contemporary moment of fluid boundaries and re-configured identities.  Here, she considers craft, its queer qualities, and the use of guerilla tactics as agents of renewed possibilities.