AIA Lecture - Buffalo Museum of Science

UB - Dept. of Visual Studies - Artist in Residency

• Tuesday 10/22 at 7pm Performance: Written in Sand: Collected AIDS Writings
  Location: Baird Recital Hall, Baird 250, University at Buffalo North Campus

All events are free and open to the public.

Karen Finley is an artist, performer and author.  Born in Chicago, she received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She works in a variety of mediums such as installation, video, performance, public art, visual art, music and literature.  She has performed and exhibited internationally. Finley was the named plaintiff in Finley vs. The NEA that was argued in the Supreme Court in 1998 about the application of decency in government funding.  Finley is active in freedom of expression concerns, visual culture, and art education and lectures, and gives workshops widely. The author of 8 books including her latest work of creative nonfiction; /Reality Shows /published by Feminist Press 2011. Most recently she had a performance and installation of her interactive work /Sext Me if You Can /at the New Museum, New York City, May 2013, where museum patrons commission Finley with a sext taken in a private booth in the museum, which she then transforms into art. She is the recipient of many awards and grants including a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is an arts professor in the department of Art and Public Policy at New York University.

Sponsored by the American Studies Graduate Student Association; the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy; the Department of English; the Department of Media Study; the Department of Theatre and Dance; the Department of Transnational Studies; the Department of Visual Studies; the Global Gender Studies Graduate Student Association; the Humanities Institute; the Institute of Jewish Thought and Heritage; Native Graduate Association; Races, Empires, and Diasporas Research Workshop; the School of Social Work; Technē Institute for Arts and Emerging Technologies; and UB Society of Feminists.

UB - Filmmaker Talk

Canisius - Soup with Substance

November is national Native American Heritage Month. ALANA Student Center and Chartwells Dining Services on Wednesday, November 6, will present a Fireart Workshop as the Soup With Substance Series program.

The program is free and open to students, faculty and staff from 11:30 a.m. to 1:45 p.m.. Visit any time for approximately 20 minutes to create fireart that you can keep! The location is the Steffan Faculty Dining Room on the first floor of the Richard E. Winter ’42 Student Center, near the Economou Dining Hall.

Woodland Visions Native Arts conducts this interactive fireart demonstration. They invite and assist participants to use woodburning tools to create art on slabs of wood while listening and learning about aspects of Native American cultures. During your project time, enjoy a courtesy soup and a beverage by Chartwells. For more information, please contact ALANA Student Center, ext. 2787.

Daemen College: Lecture

The Sister Jeanne File Art History Lecture Series opens on Thursday, October 3^rd at 7:00 PM in room V20 of the Haberman Gacioch Center for Visual and Performing Arts at Daemen College.  This is the fourth year of the series, honoring the former Art Historian and one of the founders of the College, affectionately known as Sister Jeanne.

For the inaugural lecture, Dr. Claire L. Kovacs, Assistant Professor of Art History and Program Director of the Art History program at Canisius College will speak on the drawings of Edgar Degas with a talk entitled“Degas’ Vingt Dessins: A Retrospective-Reproduction.”

Dr. Kovacs received her PhD in art history from the University of Iowa, where her line of investigation was 19^th century French art and its Italian counterparts.  Before coming to Canisius in 2011, Dr. Kovacs was a postdoctoral fellow in modern and contemporary art and visiting professor at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
*Free and open to the public*

We hope you can join us!