Ceramist up next for visiting artist series Sept. 13

Rob Forbes will be presenting at 5:30 p.m. Sept 13, in Richards Hall, Room 15.

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s School of Art, Art History and Design’s Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series brings notable artists, scholars and designers to Nebraska each semester to enhance the education of students.

Ceramic artist Rob Forbes will present the next lecture at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 13, in Richards Hall, Room 15.

Forbes has been a ceramic artist, professor, author, publisher, photographer and business entrepreneur. He is best known as the founder of Design Within Reach and PUBLIC Bikes.

DWR pioneered many changes that have become mainstream today, such as internet retailing of modern design, design blogging, transparent pricing and a focus on designers themselves as much as on their products.

PUBLIC Bikes is a similar business model with a mission to bring design awareness to public, urban spaces and to our civic lives.

Forbes recently authored “See for Yourself,” a visual study and search for beauty in our everyday world.

Other lectures in the fall series include:

Sept. 20: Sukha Worob. Worob grew up in a small community in the high desert landscape of Prescott, Arizona. His work explores contemporary approaches to the printmaking multiple through works on paper as well as installation and interactive works. His work is primarily driven by his history in communal living and observation of the potential of humanity when set upon a common goal.
Oct. 4: Robert Mahoney. Mahoney is a veteran New York-city based art critic who provided weekly and monthly coverage of the New York art scene for 20 years. He also was public information officer for Queens Museum of Art from 1994-99. Mahoney manages his blog, is working on a book called “Exposures: 50 Works of Art that Changed My Life” and writes for Flatlanders, a critical dialogue for Nebraska’s contemporary visual arts.
Oct. 11: Eva Isaksen. Isaksen was born and raised north of the Arctic Circle in Bodø, Norway. Her work is inspired by the landscape in her native Norway and in the U.S. northwest. She works with printmaking and collage, using thin handmade papers from Nepal that she mono prints using pressed plants, seeds, yarns, fabric and stencils creating complex and multi-layered compositions to investigate nuances in nature. Her work contains organic forms and represents cycles, seasons, land, water, order, rhythm, growth, life and regeneration.
Oct. 19: Emily Godbey. An associate professor at Iowa State University. Godbey’s primary body of work deals with the ideas of tragedy and mourning. Her book project, “Recreating Astonishment: Disaster’s Delightful Horrors and Terrible Pleasures,” explores the commercialization of disaster through images within modern formats such as postcards, movies and amusement parks. Godbey is also working on projects dealing with communication at the turn of the century via postcards and visuality and World’s Fairs.
Nov. 8: Bonna Wescoat. Wescoat is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Art History at Emory University. Her research interests are ancient Greek art and architecture, particularly sacred architecture, and digital modeling to investigate the interaction of landscape, architecture and ritual experience. Her work now centers on the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on Samothrace, where she has directed excavations.
Nov. 14: Linda Lopez and Cristina Córdova. Lopez has exhibited her work in New Zealand and throughout the United States and has been an artist in residence at The Clay Studio and the Archie Bray Foundation. Lopez received the Lighton International Artist Exchange Program Grant to be an artist in residence at C.R.E.T.A. Rome Residency Program. She is represented by Mindy Solomon Gallery. Córdova lives and works in Penland, North Carolina, and has taught at Penland School of Crafts, Haystack Mountain School, Santa Fe Clay, Mudfire, Odyssey Center for Ceramics and Anderson Ranch, among others. She founded Travel Arte, an ongoing platform that provides educational experiences within the ceramics medium while immersing students in the creative culture of a specific setting.