Multidisciplinary visual artist Kristina Paabus will present the next Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture at 5:30 p.m. Dec. 4 at the Sheldon Museum of Art’s Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Paabus is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus in printmaking. Her work examines systems of power and control, with a particular focus on Soviet and post-Soviet histories.
Earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design and Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Paabus also studied fine arts and religious studies at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and printmaking at the Estonian Academy of Arts.
Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States, Europe and China. Paabus is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship for Installation Art in Estonia, the Grant Wood Fellowship in Printmaking at the University of Iowa, an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, the Southern Graphics Council International Guanlan Residency Award, and Oberlin College faculty grants.
Paabus has attended numerous artist residencies, including the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center in Nebraska City and the Guanlan Original Printmaking Base in China.
She lives and works in northeast Ohio, where she is director of the Oberlin Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, chair of studio art and associate professor of reproducible media at Oberlin College.
For more information on the series, contact the School of Art, Art History and Design at 402-472-5522 or e-mail schoolaahd@unl.edu.
