Photographer Bryan Schutmaat will present the next lecture of the Hixson-Lied Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 11 in Richards Hall, Room 15. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Schutmaat is an American photographer whose work has been widely exhibited and published in the United States and overseas. He has won numerous awards, and in 2014, was named to Photo District News’ 30 new photographers to watch list. In 2013, Dazed Magazine named him one of Paris Photo’s “breakout stars.” He was also chosen as a Flash Forward Emerging Photographer by the Magenta Foundation.
Schutmaat’s first monograph, “Grays the Mountain Sends,” was published by the Silas Finch Foundation in 2013 to international critical acclaim. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in history from the University of Houston and an Master of Fine Arts in photography from Hartford Art School.
Schutmaat’s photos can be found in the permanent collection at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and numerous private collections.
The Hixson-Lied Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series is underwritten by the Hixson-Lied Endowment, with additional support from other sources. The program brings notable artists, scholars and designers to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Department of Art and Art History, enhancing the education of students and enriching the culture of the state by providing a way for Nebraskans to interact with luminaries in the fields of art, art history and design.
Richards Hall is located at Stadium Drive and T streets. For more information, call 402-472-5522.
Remaining lectures in the series are:
Studio potter Steven Rolf, 5:30 p.m. Feb. 23 in Richards Hall, Room 15. Rolf lives and works as a studio potter in River Falls, Wisconsin, creating one-of-a-kind functional pots.
Architect Diane Favro, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 29 in Richards Hall, Room 15. Favro is a professor of architecture and urban design and associate dean of the UCLA School of Arts and Architecture. As a founder of the UCLA CVRLab and the UCLA Experiential Technologies Center, Favro was an early adopter of 3-D, real-time digital modeling for historical research.
ArtStream, the mobile pottery gallery, will be at UNL March 7-8. Three guest artists will be coming, including Ayumi Horie, Lorna Meaden and Lisa Orr. Orr will present an artist talk at 11:30 a.m. March 7 in Richards Hall, Room 118. All three artists will give demonstrations from 2-5 p.m. March 7 in Richards Hall, Room 118. On March 8, Horie will present a lecture at 10:30 a.m., and Meaden will lecture at 11:30 a.m., both in Richards Hall, Room 118.
• Sculptor Carlton Newton, 5:30 p.m., March 31 in Richards Hall, Room 15. Newton is currently on the faculty of the sculpture department at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he teaches courses in studio sculpture, contemporary art criticism and video and computer technology.
• Photographer Takashi Arai, 5:30 p.m., April 5 in Richards Hall, Room 15. Beginning in 2010, Arai used the daguerreotype technique to create individual records or micro-monuments of his encounters with surviving crew members and the salvaged hull of the Daigo Fuküryumaru, a nuclear fallout-contaminated fishing boat. This project led him to photograph the deeply interconnected subjects of Fukushima, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
• Deb Sokolow, 5:30 p.m. April 28 with the location to be announced. Sokolow is a Chicago-based artist and a lecturer at Northwestern University. She is a 2012 recipient of an Artadia Grant and has participated in residencies nationally and internationally.
