Seventh Annual Tim Hamill Visiting Artist Lecture
February 28, 6:30pm
Boston University College of Fine Arts
Morse Auditorium
602 Commonwealth Avenue (corner of Blandford Street), Boston
http://www.bu.edu/cfa/events/caversham
South Africa: Artists, Prints, Community / Twenty Five Years at The Caversham PressThree Artists at the Caversham Press – Deborah Bell, Robert Hodgins and William Kentridgewww.bu.edu/cfa/events/cavershamOne of South Africa’s leading visual artists, William Kentridge is best known for his remarkable films, works on paper, and theatre productions. Kentridge’s work touches on the atrocities of apartheid and social injustice, yet also reflects the exhilarating freedom of the new South Africa. Lynne Allen, Director of the BU School of Visual Arts, explains, “William Kentridge, whose work crosses boundaries between theater, film, visual art and language, is a fitting role model for any young artist today. His awareness of the inequities within his own country, and his ability to draw attention to them in a way that is at once comic while heartbreaking, are clear examples of an artist who is fearless with content and the means of expressing it.”
Founded in 1839, Boston University is an internationally recognized private research university with more than 30,000 students participating in undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs. BU consists of 17 colleges and schools along with a number of multi-disciplinary centers and institutes which are central to the school’s research and teaching mission. The Boston University College of Fine Arts was created in 1954 to bring together the School of Music, the School of Theatre, and the School of Visual Arts. The University’s vision was to create a community of artists in a conservatory-style school offering professional training in the arts to both undergraduate and graduate students, complemented by a liberal arts curriculum for undergraduate students. Since those early days, education at the College of Fine Arts has begun on the BU campus and extended into the city of Boston, a rich center of cultural, artistic and intellectual activity.
EVENT DETAILS AT A GLANCE
Tim Hamill Visiting Artist Lecture: William Kentridge
Monday, February 28, 6:30pm
Morse Auditorium
602 Commonwealth Avenue (corner of Blandford Street), Boston
T Green Line, B train, Blandford Street stop
Lecture is free and open to the public
http://www.bu.edu/cfa/events/caversham or 617.353.3371