Betsy Schneider, a photo-based artist and educator, will present a free public lecture at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 30 in Richards Hall, Room. 14. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Schneider’s artistic concerns range from trying to understand time, decay and the body, to exploring childhood, culture, and relationships and looking very closely at strange visceral things such as candy, placentas and the mouth. She uses a variety of photographic tools including APS, digital, medium format and view cameras and digital and computer generated video.
Her work is in several private and public collections including that of actor Jamie Lee Curtis, Museet for Fotokunst in Denmark, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City. She has taught and lectured across the U.S., Scandinavia and the U.K. In 2011 she was named a Guggenheim Fellow and has spent the past year and a half working on the fellowship, photographing and creating videos of 13-year-old children from around the country.
Schneider is an associate professor in the School of Art at Arizona State University. She is spending the year in Boston and is a visiting lecturer at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
