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The University of Kansas Department of Art has begun a new Rotating Faculty Series which allows visiting artists to serve as temporary faculty in the divisions of sculpture, painting/drawing, expanded media and printmaking.

The first participant was noted Native American artist Norman Akers, who visited KU in October 2007. Professor Akers is a faculty member at the IAIA (Institute of American Indian Arts) in Santa Fe, NM where he has served as chair. Akers, originally from Oklahoma, is nationally known and has exhibited his paintings throughout the country. The Lawrence Art Center exhibited his work throughout October. During his campus visit Akers presented a lecture at the Art Center to a standing-room only audience.

Related links:
www.iaia.edu/college/_normanakers.php

The next guest in the Rotating Faculty Series was New York artist Julia Randall. Randall arrived in Lawrence on November 25, 2007, and worked with students throughout the week. Julia holds an MFA from Rutgers University. She completed her undergraduate work at Washington University in St. Louis. Randall lives and works in the Chelsea district of NYC and exhibits her work at the Jeff Bailey Gallery, also in NYC. Trained as a painter and printmaker, her remarkable works on paper are drawn in colored pencil. See her work at: http://www.baileygallery.com/artists_02.cfm?fid=108.

In residence from March 2-5 will be Barbara Rogers, a painter who has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally, including solo exhibitions at galleries and museums in San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle, New York, Pittsburgh, Scottsdale, Germany, South Korea and the United Arab Emirates. Her work is in public and private collections including The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, the Oakland Museum of Art and the San Jose Museum of Art. Rogers has been a faculty member or visiting artist at the University of California in Berkeley, the University of Chicago, San Jose State University, the San Francisco Art Institute, Cooper Union, and much more. While in residence, Rogers will give a public lecture at the Lawrence Arts Center, meet with art students and contribute to painting classes at KU.

Following Rogers’ visit will be a residence by artist Karl Wirsum, from March 9-14. While visiting, he will give a public lecture on his creative work, critique undergraduate and graduate art students and will work on a limited edition lithograph in the printmaking studio. Wirsum received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago in 1961. He was one of the early members of the art collective The Hairy Who (which later changed over to the Chicago Imagists), an organization of artists that included Art Green, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Suellen Rocca and James Falconer. Wirsum teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as professor of art. He has shown works all over the country and is represented by the Jean Albano Gallery in Chicago. His works can be seen in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chazen Museum of Art in Madison, WI, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., the David and Alfred Smart Gallery at the University of Chicago and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, NY.

Professor Carol Ann Carter chairs the Rotating Faculty Committee, which is the faculty team managing this new initiative.

More information on this series coming soon! Visit www.arts.ku.edu for updates.