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Illinois Wesleyan UniversityDigital Commons @ IWUNews and Events University Communications2013Visiting Ceramic Artist to Give LectureKatherine FilippoIllinois Wesleyan UniversityThis Article is brought to you for free and open access by The Ames Library, the Andrew W. Mellon Center for Curricular and FacultyDevelopment, the Office of the Provost and the Office of the President. It has been accepted for inclusion in Digital Commons @ IWU bythe faculty at Illinois Wesleyan University. For more information, please contact digitalcommons@iwu.edu.©Copyright is owned by the author of this document.Recommended CitationFilippo, Katherine, "Visiting Ceramic Artist to Give Lecture" (2013). News and Events. Paper 2258.http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/news/2258Visiting Ceramic Artist to Give Lecture  Feb. 5, 2013                     BLOOMINGTON, Ill.— Nationally acclaimed ceramic artist, Lisa  Marie Barber, will give a lecture on Tuesday, Feb. 19 at 6 p.m. in  Room 218 of the Joyce Eichhorn Ames School of Art Building (6  Ames Plaza West, Bloomington).  The event, which is sponsored  by the Anthony E. Stellaccio Visiting Artist and Lecture Series  fund, is free and open to the public.  A native of Tucson, Ariz., Barber works in a wide variety of  artistic media including, paintings, drawings, assemblage  sculpture and quilts.  Her primary body of artwork consists of  large ceramic installations that loosely represent playful  embodiments of cities or fanciful worlds often populated with  ceramic figures of life-size children.  These works are composed  of hundreds of individually made parts with bright colors and  decorative features derived from Mexican folk art and alters – all  influences from her cultural heritage and childhood.  Currently the Associate Professor and Chairperson of the Art  Department at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Barber studied art at Northern Arizona University and has a master of  fine arts degree in ceramics from the University of Texas at Austin.   Barber’s work has been featured in American Craft Magazine, Ceramics Monthly Magazine, Critical Ceramics and in  numerous books related to ceramic art. Honored by the National Council of Ceramic Art with an Emerging Artist Award in  2002, she has held internationally competitive artist-in-residence positions at the Watershed Center for Ceramic Art,  Mendocino Art Center, Northern Clay Center and the City University of New York, Hunter College.   For additional information, contact Carmen Lozar, director of the Merwin and Wakeley Galleries, at (309) 556-3822 or by  email at clozar@iwu.edu.  Contact: Katherine Filippo, ’12, (309) 556-3181 univcomm@iwu.edu    Artwork by Lisa Marie Barber 

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