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Visiting artist series: Art with words, paint, lens

March 6, 1998

Visiting artists working in words, with paint and through the camera lens will complete the UW–Madison Department of Art’s 1998 spring guest artist series.

The series began earlier this month with a visit from San Diego furniture maker Wendy Maruyama. In addition to printmaker Bud Shark, profiled this issue, this semester’s lineup will feature:

  • Richard Vine, managing editor of Art in America, March 16-18. Formerly editor-in-chief of the Chicago Review and Dialogue: An Art Journal, Vine’s articles and essays have appeared widely. He has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the American Conservatory of Music, the New School for Social Research, New York University and others. While in Madison, he will meet with graduate students and present a lecture March 16 at 5:30 p.m. in L130 Elvehjem.
  • Michiko Itatani, painter, March 24-26. With over 50 solo shows to her credit, Itatani is a professor in the School of the Art Institute. Since 1977 she has exhibited all over the United States, Canada, Japan and Spain; museums and galleries including Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, the Musee du Quebec, the State of Illinois Museum and the UW-Milwaukee hold her work in their permanent collections. While on campus, she will meet with art students and critique their work and lecture March 24 at 5:30 p.m. in L130 Elvehjem.
  • Anne Noggle, photographer, April 8-10. A licensed pilot who flew during World War II, Noggle took her first “serious” photograph at the age of 43. Favorite subjects include documenting middle-aged and elderly people and their environments, and self-portraiture. At the moment she is photographing and interviewing Russian women pilots who also flew during the second World War. Noggle will offer art students critiques and discussions of their work. She will lecture April 8 at 5:30 p.m. in L130 Elvehjem.

All lectures are free and open to the public. For more information on the series, contact the UW–Madison Department of Art, (608) 262- 1660.