Studio Potter Steven Rolf will present the next lecture of the Hixson-Lied Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 23 in Richards Hall Room 15. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Rolf lives and works as a studio potter in River Falls, Wisconsin, creating one-of-a-kind functional pots. His work reflects an ongoing search to unite his ideas with the generosity and the intimacy that the functional pot offers.
He earned a master’s from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, a bachelor’s from the Kansas City Art Institute and a bachelor’s in Broad Area Arts from the University of Wisconsin River Falls. He apprenticed under Wang Hui Ming, a master painter and wood engraver.
He exhibits his work throughout the United States and has received a number of national awards. He lectures and teaches workshops throughout the country, and his work resides in noted private and national and international museum collections, as well as numerous kitchen cupboards.
The Hixson-Lied Visiting Artists & 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 UNL’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 at Stadium Drive and T streets. For more information, contact the Department of Art and Art History at 402-472-5522.
The remaining Hixson-Lied Visiting Artists and Scholars Lectures are:
Architect Diane Favro, 7:30 Feb. 29 in Richards Hall Room 15. Favro is 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 3D, 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. Each artist will give an artist talk and demonstration during the visit. March 7: 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., artist talk by Lisa Orr in Richards Hall Room 118; 2 to 5 p.m., demos by all three artists in Richards Hall Room 118. March 8: 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., artist talk by Ayumi Horie in Richards Hall Room 118; 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. artist talk by Lorna Meaden in Richards Hall Room 118; 2 to 5 p.m., demos by all three artists in Richards Hall Room 118.
Sculptor Carlton Newton, 5:30 p.m. March 31 in Richards Hall Room 15. Newton is on faculty 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 in Richards Hall Room 15. 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.
