Tomorrow- Kristen Morgin, the Lamar Dodd School of Art’s 2011-2012 Dodd Chair, is giving a lecture at 5:30 in room S151. Her bio from the LDSOA website reads: Kristen L. Morgin was born in 1968 in Brunswick, GA.  Kristen is the eldest daughter of Lowell and Lucille Morgin.  She has three younger sisters. Kristen earned a BA degree from California State University, Hayward.  Kristen earned a MFA degree with an emphasis in ceramics from Alfred University in 1997.  Kristen currently resides in Gardena, CA. Kristen has held job positions as a gallery docent, a children’s playhouse set painter, a secretary in an auto glass shop, and a professor of art.  She currently earns her living as an artist.Morgin has had solo shows at Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles (2006) and Viento y Agua Gallery, Long Beach (2004). Selected group exhibitions include Trans-Ceramic Art 3rd World Ceramic Biennale, Icheon, Korea, 2005; Thing: New Sculpture from Los Angeles Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2005); and Because the Earth Is 1/3 Dirt Art Museum of the University of Colorado, Boulder (2004). For more information, visit: http://art.uga.edu/index.php?pt=4&id=173#
Visiting artist lecture: Piper Shepard Lecture: February 23rd, 2010, 5:30 PM, Room S151The Lamar Dodd School of Art “My interest is to link cloth analogies (that of delicacy and fragility) with the patterning of historical sources and natural phenomena, which speak of such qualities. I believe a textile, which is an object of daily interaction, seems most appropriate to convey these ideas. By cutting whole cloth into lace-like, arterial structures, I hope to elicit qualities of a most ephemeral nature. The work is pushed toward its most fragile limits. A tenuous relationship with material and its physical qualities are amplified.” http://art.uga.edu/index.php?pt=4&id=116 http://pipershepard.com/