Visiting artist Robert Bubp will discuss his work in a 5:30 p.m. March 2 lecture in Richards Hall, Room 15. He is the Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s School of Art, Art History and Design.

Bubp, associate professor of painting and drawing at Wichita State University, has participated in more than 60 solo, two-person and group exhibitions across the United States and Europe. His current research explores traditions and local politics of street vending.

Robert Bubp

Bubp has been the recipient of several awards for artwork, teaching and scholarship, including the 2005 Kansas Artist Fellowship for Interdisciplinary or Performance Art from the Kansas Arts Commission; the 2009 Excellence in Creative Activity Award at Wichita State University; and the College of Fine Arts Excellence in Teaching Award in 2006 and 2015.

Underwritten by the Hixson-Lied Endowment with additional support from other sources, the visiting artist series provides a way for Nebraskans to interact with luminaries in the fields of art, art history and design. Each visiting artist or scholar spends one to three days on campus to meet with classes, participate in critiques and give demonstrations. Every visiting artist or scholar gives at least one major lecture that is free and open to the public.

The remaining lectures in the series this spring include:

• Designer and entrepreneur Rob Forbes, 5:30 p.m. March 9 – 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 (1998) and PUBLIC Bikes (2009).

• 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.