The fine arts department at the University of Colorado at Boulder will kick off its Visiting Artist Lecture series for fall 2001 on Tuesday, Sept. 18, with a public talk by Cuban photographer Cirenaica Moreira.
The lecture will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Sibell Wolle Fine Arts Building room N141 and is free and open to the public.
Moreira, whose work is internationally known, is part of a vital, new generation of Cuban conceptual photographers. Her photographs often juxtapose the female body with various materials including industrialized sculptural body parts.
The lecture series is part of the fine arts department's Visiting Artist Program, which brings artists of national and international reputation to CU-Boulder to interact with graduate and undergraduate students. The artists work with students during the semester in seminar meetings, giving them a broad perspective of contemporary issues in the arts.
This fall's theme, "There's No Place Like Home: Art and (Dis)Location," is the second in a three-year series focusing on land and environmental issues in the arts. During the lecture series visiting artists from Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Canada and the United States will discuss the effects that global capitalism, commercialism and ecological conditions are having on their homelands.
The fall 2001 Visiting Artist Program Lecture Series also has the following lectures scheduled:
* Juan Carlos Alom will speak Tuesday, Sept. 25, at 7:30 p.m. in Sibell Wolle Fine Arts room N141. The Havana-based artist constructs photographic images equally grounded in international artistic discourses and Arto-Cuban spirituality and culture. His work is held in collections throughout Cuba, Europe and the United States.
* Alyson Shotz will speak Tuesday, Oct. 16, at 7:30 p.m. in Sibell Wolle Fine Arts room N141. This American artist's sculptures were featured in the Whitney Museum of Art's Pastoral Pop! exhibit in 2000. Her works are inventive explorations of organic and inorganic material relationships and often reveal "the unintended consequences of human efforts to tamper with the environment."
* Pitaloosie Saila will speak Tuesday, Nov. 13, at 7:30 p.m. in Sibell Wolle Fine Arts room N141. This Canadian artist has been described as one of the most important Inuit artists working today. Her drawings and prints have been exhibited in Canada, the United States and Germany. She was one of nine featured artists in the acclaimed exhibition "Isumavut: The Artistic Expression of Nine Cape Dorset Women," and is involved in the Kinngait Printmakers Cooperative.