NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Writer and activist Lucy R. Lippard, a celebrated art critic, theorist and author of more than 20 books on contemporary art and cultural criticism, will present “Common Ground: Arts & Communities” on Wednesday, Feb. 22, at Vanderbilt University as part of the Chancellor’s Lecture Series.
Lippard’s discussion will start at 6 p.m. in the Student Life Center. A complimentary reception precedes the lecture at 5 p.m. Both events are free and open to the public, but seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-seated basis.
Parking is available in Kensington Garage, located on the corner of 25th Avenue South and Kensington Place.
Lippard has written columns for The Village Voice, In These Times and Z Magazine. She is a co-founder of Printed Matter, The Heresies Collective; Political Art Documentation/Distribution (PADD) and its journal Upfront; Artists Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America and other artists’ organizations.
Lippard has curated more than 50 exhibitions in the U.S., Europe and Latin America and participated in performances, comics and Guerilla Theater. Her first book, Pop Art, was published in 1966 and her latest is On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art and Place, an extended chapter of her 1997 offering, The Lure of the Local: Sense of Place in a Multicentered Society.
Lippard was born in New York City and lived in New Orleans and Charlottesville, Va., before graduating from Smith College in 1958 and earning a master’s in art history from the New York University Institute of Fine Arts in 1962. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1968, and has received several honorary doctorates in fine arts.
Lippard has been a visiting professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York, the University of Queensland, Australia, and the University of Colorado. She serves or has served on the boards of multiple organizations, including the Center for Constitutional Rights, Earth Works Institute and the Center for American Places. Lippard has been included in Who’s Who in America for more than a decade.
She now lives in Galisteo, N.M., and edits the village newsletter La Puente de Galisteo. Lippard also is a research associate at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology in Santa Fe, N.M.
Lippard’s lecture is the fifth this academic year in the ongoing Chancellor’s Lecture Series at Vanderbilt. The sixth and final installment will be April 12 with Henry Petroski, Aleksander S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and Professor of History at Duke University, speaking at the Benton Chapel of the Vanderbilt Divinity School.
The Chancellor’s Lecture Series serves to bring to the university and the wider Nashville community those intellectuals who are shaping the world today. For more information about the Chancellor’s Lecture Series, visit www.vanderbilt.edu/chancellor/cls.
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