Designer and entrepreneur Rob Forbes will present the next lecture of the Hixson-Lied Visiting Artists and Scholars lecture series at 5:30 p.m. March 9 in Richards Hall, Room 15. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Forbes has been a ceramic artist, professor, author, publisher, photographer and business entrepreneur. He has held executive positions at numerous retail companies, but is best known as the founder of Design Within Reach and PUBLIC Bikes.

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

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Remaining lectures in the spring series are:

• Forensic archaeologist Caroline Sturdy Colls, 7:30 p.m. April 3 – Colls is an associate professor of forensic archaeology and genocide investigation at Staffordshire University. She is also the research lead of the Centre of Archaeology at the same institution.

• Graphic designer Ellen Lupton, 5:30 p.m. April 6 – Lupton is a writer, curator, educator and designer. She is the senior curator of contemporary design at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City.

• Sculptor David Lobdell, 5:30 p.m. April 13 – Lobdell is professor of fine art and chair of visual and performing arts at New Mexico Highlands University.

• Photographer Lawrence McFarland, 5:30 p.m. April 20 – McFarland, who received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in 1976, is professor emeritus from the University of Texas at Austin, where he taught from 1985 to 2013. He was awarded the first William and Bettye Nowlin Endowed Professorship in Photography in 2003.

For more information about the Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist and Scholar events, click here or call 402-472-5522.