Lawrence.com

The KU School of Fine Arts welcomes installation artist Allison Smith to campus as part of the Department of Art Visiting Artist Series. Smith will give a public lecture on her creative work on Tuesday, November 29, 2005, at 7:00 p.m. at the Spencer Museum of Art Auditorium. This event is free and open to the public.Smith is a Brooklyn-based installation artist and sculptor who workswith contemporary objects that CONJURE historical aesthetics, referredto as "authentic reproductions." Smith presents these objects or propsin ways that can signify more than the mere appearance suggests. Hercreations, which include colonial handcrafts, Civil War memorabilia and19th century weapons are often arranged to change the exhibition spaceinto an area that reflects a historic space or a period room. Shereceived her BA in psychology from the New School of Social Research, aBFA from Parsons School of Design and an MFA from Yale University School of Art. She also participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program.The Department of Art Visiting Artist Program has been bringing inartists with international, national, and regional reputations on aregular basis since 1970. Approximately six to ten artists, educators,and scholars are brought in each academic year to lecture to students,faculty and/or the general public, as well as to critique student work,and/or conduct short term workshops. Additional artists are frequentlybrought in under co-sponsorship with other departments on campus as wellas other campuses in adjacent cities.For more information about visiting artist Allison Smith, please contactthe Department of Art at 785-864-4401.