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Art Forum Lecture Series:
Artist, sculptor, graphic designer to lecture Apr. 17
UPPER MONTCLAIR, N.J.
An artist, a sculptor and a graphic designer will appear at Montclair State University as part of the Art Forum Lecture Series, sponsored by MSU's Department of Fine Arts. All talks are held in Calcia Hall's Fine Arts Auditorium (Room 135) from 3 to 4:50 p.m. and are free and open to the public.
On Thursday, April 17, Sheila Hicks, who trained as a painter with Joseph Albers and Rico LeBrun at Yale University, will lecture. In a history course with George Kubler, Hicks discovered pre-Columbian textiles and, as a Fulbright scholar in Central America, studied indigenous weaving techniques. Continuing her explorations, Hicks traveled and worked in India and Saudi Arabia and is currently in Japan. Her atelier is in Paris and her work is included in major museum collections throughout the world.
As an effective figure in the cross-cultural life of New York City, Noah Jemisin, who will lecture on Thursday, April 24, has known and followed many paths of black life in the United States, from cotton fields, segregation and civil rights battles to parenting, taxi driving and an art life that incorporates teaching and curating as well as painting, sculpture and set design. Jemisin has documented his surroundings in mixed media, watercolor and sculpture.
Michelle Washington, graphic designer and art director from Washington, D.C., will give a presentation on "Unsung Heroes in Design History" on Thursday, May 1. The lecture will showcase the works of African American designers and their influence on design in America. Washington has worked as an associate art director for Essence magazine, senior designer for Self magazine and acting art director and associate art director for Black Enterprise magazine.
As a visiting artist at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she taught courses in computer graphics and advanced computer exploration. She is working on a book and companion interactive media title on the history of African American graphic designers.
For additional information, call (201) 655-7294 or 7295.