Using her own studio work and professional path as examples, Kim Russo will share her thoughts on the importance of authenticity, sincerity and passion to an artist’s studio practice during a talk April 28 at the Sheldon Museum of Art, 12th and R streets.

She will present “What Happens Next is None of Your Business” at 5:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

Russo is an artist, writer, teacher and associate provost of academic affairs at the California Institute of the Arts. She uses watercolor on paper to create drawings of contemporary American life intended to sit between comic tragedy and cautionary tale.

Russo has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in painting from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University and Indiana University, respectively.

She has exhibited her work throughout the United States and in Ireland, and has received residency fellowships from the Frederick P. Lenz Foundation, Caldera, Atlantic Center for the Arts and Americans for the Arts. Her drawings are in the collections of the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe, Cornell Fine Arts Museum in Winter Park, Fla., and Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum in Lafayette, La., as well as notable private collections.

Sheldon Museum of Art, 12th and R streets on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln City Campus, houses a permanent collection of more than 12,000 objects focusing on American art. Sheldon is open free to the public during regular hours: Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Wednesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. The museum is closed on Mondays. For more information, visit http://www.sheldonartmuseum.org.