March 28, 2016 · 2 min read

Sculptor to deliver March 31 Hixson-Lied lecture

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Sculptor Carlton Newton will deliver a March 31 lecture at UNL. Pictured is his sculpture, “October,” which is made from hand-woven galvanized sheet steel.

Sculptor Carlton Newton will present the next lecture of the Hixson-Lied Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series at 5:30 p.m. March 31 in Richards Hall, Room 15. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Newton earned his master’s degree from the San Francisco Art Institute, followed by teaching stints at Princeton University, the College of William & Mary and the University of Richmond. He is currently on the faculty of the sculpture department at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he teaches courses in studio sculpture, contemporary art criticism and video and computer technology.

Newton has exhibited widely, including The New Museum in New York, The American Academy in Rome, The Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. He has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the American Academy in Rome Prize in Sculpture and a Virginia Commission for the Arts Fellowship.

The Hixson-Lied Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series is underwritten by the Hixson-Lied Endowment, with additional support from other sources. The program brings notable artists, scholars and designers to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Department of Art and Art History, enhancing the education of students and enriching the culture of the state by providing a way for Nebraskans to interact with luminaries in the fields of art, art history and design.

For more information, call 402-472-5522.

The remaining Hixson-Lied Visiting Artists and Scholars Lectures are:

Photographer Takashi Arai, 5:30 p.m., April 5 in Richards Hall, Room 15. Beginning in 2010, Arai used the daguerreotype technique to create individual records or micro-monuments of his encounters with surviving crew members and the salvaged hull of the Daigo Fuküryumaru, a nuclear fallout-contaminated fishing boat. This project led him to photograph the deeply interconnected subjects of Fukushima, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Deb Sokolow, 5:30 p.m. April 28 with the location to be announced. Sokolow is a Chicago-based artist and a lecturer at Northwestern University. She is a 2012 recipient of an Artadia Grant and has participated in residencies nationally and internationally.