Visiting Artists to Conduct Public Lectures Sept.26, 27

Monday, September 24, 2007

The University of Tulsa’s School of Art will host two visiting artists this week with specialties in silkscreen techniques, architecture, filmmaking and photography.

Visiting printmaker Timothy High will present his public lecture at 4 p.m. Sept. 26 in Phillips Hall, Room 211. His presentation will also include demonstrations of alternative silkscreen techniques.

In his printmaking, High, who is an associate professor at the University of Texas, focuses on the individual and societal flaws from human nature. He has been in numerous national, international and solo exhibitions. High’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, Milwaukee Art Center, Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Mass.

Chilean-born, New York-based artist Alfredo Jaar will present his J. Donald Feagin Distinguished Visiting Artists lecture at 7 p.m. Sept. 27 in the Lorton Lecture Hall.

Jaar’s photography, video and installation pieces address the plight of people worldwide oppressed by poverty, civil war, human rights abuses and AIDS. His works have been shown internationally in Venice, São Paulo, Johannesburg, Sydney, Istanbul and Kwangju biennales as well as at Documenta in Kassel, Germany.

The Sept. 26 and 27 public lectures are free and open to the public. For more information, contact the TU School of Art at (918) 631-2739.