Potter Virgil Ortiz will continue this semester’s Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist and Scholar series with a lecture at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 27 in Richards Hall, Room 15. The presentation is free and open to the public.

Ortiz is one of four remaining artists who will present lectures this spring. Organized by the School of Art, Art History and Design, the series brings notable artists, scholars and designers to Nebraska each semester to enhance the education of students. Each lecture begins at 5:30 p.m. in Richards Hall, Room 15.

One of the most innovative potters of his time, Ortiz has moved Pueblo pottery into a new era combining art, décor, fashion, video and film. Ortiz’s works have been exhibited in museum collections around the world, including in the Netherlands, France and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian.

For further details on his work, visit Ortiz’s website.

Remaining lectures this spring include:

• March 13: Leo Mazow, art history. Mazow is the Louise B. and J. Harwood Cochrane Curator of American Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
• April 11: Mary Pardo, art history. Pardo is an associate professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill. She specializes in Italian Renaissance art and art criticism.
• April 25: Alexander Ross, painting. Ross is represented by the David Nolan Gallery in New York. His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, an Art Production Fund Fellowship, Residency at the Musée Claude Monet in Giverny, France and an Artist Fellowship Grant from the Tesuque Foundation.

For more information on the series, contact the School of Art, Art History and Design at 402-472-5522 or schoolaahd@unl.edu.