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When: Tuesday, September 29 at 7 p.m. Where: via Zoom https://illinoisstate.zoom.us/j/95168210899 Artist website: https://www.saic.edu/profiles/faculty/giovanni-aloi Image: Lucien Freud, Interior with Plant Reflection, Listening (Self-Portrait), 1967-68. Oil on canvas. 48 x 48 inches. Private Collection.   This lecture is organized by the Wonsook Kim School of Art Visiting Artists Program.   Lucian Freud: Plants, Painting, and Silence Potted plants populate many of the most memorable, and yet overlooked, paintings by British artist Lucian Freud. In Interior with Plant, Reflection Listening (Self-Portrait) the lush…

When: Tuesday, October 6 at 7 p.m. Where: via Zoom https://illinoisstate.zoom.us/j/95168210899 Artist website: http://rebirthgarments.com/#rebirthgarments Image: Work by Sky Cubacub featuring Alice Wong and Nina Litoff, photo by Grace DuVal.   This lecture is organized by the Wonsook Kim School of Art Visiting Artists Program.   Sky Cubacub is a non-binary queer and disabled Filipinx human from Chicago. Rebirth Garments is their line of wearables for the full spectrum of gender, size, and ability. They maintain the notion of Radical Visibility, a…

Design Streak Studio Portfolio Review: October 8th, from 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. via Zoom  Want to design for a better world? Register for this portfolio review for a chance to join Design Streak Studio! Design Streak Studio, which is both an academic capstone course in Graphic Design and an in-house Graphic Design Studio located within the Center for the Visual Arts, is a research based social innovation lab focusing on human centered service design. It strives to facilitate an interdisciplinary environment promoting discovery, and…

Graphic Design Internship Fair : Tuesday, October 13th from 10a.m. to 12p.m.   Show off your work and gain an internship! Our Graphic Design Internship Fair helps connect community organizations to young student designers for mutually beneficial work. During the virtual Graphic Design Internship Fair, potential clients from our community will gather on Zoom to view student portfolios via Zoom screen share during 15 minute windows. Wonsook Kim School of Art students who have successfully completed or are currently enrolled in Typography are…

When: Tuesday, October 13 at 7 p.m. Where: via Zoom https://illinoisstate.zoom.us/j/95168210899 Artist website: http://flatsstudio.flatslife.com/item/valentina-zamfirescu/ Image: Valentina Zamfirescu.   This lecture is organized by the Wonsook Kim School of Art Visiting Artists Program.   Valentina Zamfirescu received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her MFA from Yale University, where she received the Blended Reality Grant and the Center for Collaborative Arts and Media Graduate Fellowship. She is a co-founder and co-director of 4th Ward Project Space…

When: Tuesday, October 20 at 7 p.m. Where: via Zoom https://illinoisstate.zoom.us/j/95168210899 Artist website: https://www.anntoebbe.com/ Image: Ann Toebbe with work by Ann Toebbe.   This lecture is organized by the Wonsook Kim School of Art Visiting Artists Program.   Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, Ann Toebbe received her BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1997. She earned an MFA in painting from Yale University in 2004 and a DAAD Scholarship to the Universität der Kunst, Berlin in 2004-05. She has been…

When: Tuesday, October 27 at 7 p.m. Where: via Zoom https://illinoisstate.zoom.us/j/95168210899 Artist website: http://www.kellieromany.com/ Image: Kellie Romany, A Series of Interruptions, 2019. Oil on Board. 24 x 24 inches.   This lecture is organized by the Wonsook Kim School of Art Visiting Artists Program.   Kellie Romany is an abstract, non-representational, figurative painter interested in bodily representation, materiality, and the history of the painting process. Using a color palette of skin tones, Romany creates objects that act as a catalyst for…