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Annual Artist Lecture Series

(Worcester, MA – March 4, 2004) Distinguished artists Ambreen Butt, Richard Cornell, Deborah Cornell and Santiago Hernandez will be the featured lecturers for the Artist Lecture Series at Worcester State College.  All three lectures will be held at 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in Ghosh Center for Science and Technology, Multimedia Auditorium (Room 102) at Worcester State College, 486 Chandler Street, Worcester.

 Ambreen Butt is the first in a three-lecture series on March 10th. She is a Pakistani painter who studied miniature painting at the National College of Art in Lahore, Pakistan. She received her MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art. She is the recipient of numerous awards which include the ICA Artist Prize from the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and an Artist in Residence position at the Gardner Museum. Her most recent works are multi-layered drawings/paintings that address her hybrid identity--a woman, an artist, a Pakistani living in the western world.

Husband and wife artists, Richard and Deborah Cornell will lecture on March 31^st.  They will explain their collaborative projects of installation, virtual reality and sound. The lecture includes a presentation of their recent concert-stage production, Tracer. Deborah Cornell's work is shown internationally. She is head of printmaking at Boston University and the Founding Director of the Experimental Etching Studio in Boston. Her most recent solo exhibitions have been in Venice, Italy; St. Petersburg, Russia; and at Milton Academy. Richard Cornell is a composer who has created recent works for Collage New Music Boston, Musica Viva, the Muir Quartet, and Triple Helix. He is the Chair of Composition and Theory at Boston University.

The third artist in the lecture series is Santiago Hernandez. He is a painter of Cuban descent who works and lives in Boston. He sees his life and art as a creative balancing act between his rich Cuban heritage and a ceaselessly changing American culture. He is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts and the University of South Florida. He was awarded the Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grant. He has mounted solo exhibitions at Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art and the Rose Art Museum.
 

The Artist Lecture Series is sponsored by the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Worcester State College and is free and open to the public.  For more information, e-mail bvinokurov@worcester.edu or call 508-929-8827.

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