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he Langston Hughes Program for the Promotion of Arts and the Visual Arts Center of Excellence will host slide lectures by artist, Derrick Adams, conceptual artist in New York and Leo Mazow, curator of American Art at the Palmer Museum of Art, located at Penn State University in a joint program on March 4, 2010 at 4:30 PM in the Ware Center Theater at Lincoln University.
Adams was born in Baltimore and has resided in Brooklyn, NY since receiving his BFA from Pratt Institute in 1996. Through the 1990s he developed a multi-media approach to conceptually-based art, attending the prestigious Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and ensuing graduate art studies at Columbia (MFA, 2003). He also became influential on the New York art scene as founding curatorial director of Rush Arts, a non-profit gallery dedicated to increased diversity in the “main stream” contemporary arts sphere. Since his first major solo exhibition in 2003, Adams has embraced diverse forms and materials simultaneously, from drawings to video to sculptural installations, in symbolic and narrative compositions that engage gender, race, urban experience and consumer culture. Adams’ discussion will focus on recent works, examples of which can be seen at: www.colletteblanchard.com (click artist).
Mazow attended undergraduate and graduate school in Colorado before receiving his Ph.D. in Art History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1996). He began his curatorial career as director of the Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery at Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA (1996–2001) and has been curator of American Art at the Palmer Museum of Pennsylvania State University since 2002, where he is also Affiliate Associate Professor of Art History. Through the past decade he has lectured, published and curated numerous exhibitions on diverse aspects of 19th-century and early 20th-century American painting. Mazow will discuss his acclaimed 2005 travelling exhibition and catalogue, Picturing the Banjo, which explores visual representations of the instrument spanning two centuries in social-historical contexts.
This event is funded by the Seiple Foundation and is open to the public.
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