CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS TO SPEAK AT

WORCESTER STATE COLLEGE

(Worcester, MA – February 13, 2003) The Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Worcester State College is presenting its annual Artist Speaker Series with three featured artists.

7:00 p.m. Wednesday, February 19, 2003 – Denise Marika

Denise Marika is a video installation artist whose work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Worcester Art Museum. Her work strives to address the human condition as defined by moments in which we are both vulnerable and defiant. Denise works with her body in situations familiar and volatile, physically confronting our passivity as voyeurs and our responsibility as witnesses. She will be discussing her current work.

7:00 p.m. Wednesday, March 12, 2003 – James Elkins

James Elkins is Professor of Art History at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is author of several influential books including “Pictures and Tears,” “How to Use Your Eyes,” and “What Painting Is.” His intellectual range, perceptive criticism, and interdisciplinary investigations have made him a nationally acclaimed historian and contemporary visual thinker.

7:00 p.m. Wednesday, April 2, 2003 – Charles Stigliano

Charles Stigliano is a Boston-based sculptor who is a professor of sculpture at the Massachusetts College of Art. His work is in the collection of the National Park Service, the University of North Carolina, and the Philadelphia Commission on Human Rights. Working with traditional techniques such as wood relief carving, Stigliano’s sculptures combine a Renaissance figurative style with an ironic, witty and whimsical spirit.

All lectures are free and open to the public and will be held in the Multimedia Auditorium (Room 102) in the Ghosh Science and Technology Center at Worcester State College. For further information, call Professor Hachey at 508-929-8828 or Professor Vinokurov at 508-929-8827.

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