Join Avery Mazor of the University of Nebraska–Omaha, Jonathan Frederick Walz of The Sheldon Museum, and textile artist Mary Zicafoose for this program inspired by the exhibition
Mazor, Walz and Zicafoose will each speak for ten minutes about a work in the exhibition that “lights their fire,” shedding light on how art inspires, engages, and delights them and impacts their own work.
Following this free program, continue the conversation with the speakers and Karin Campbell, Joslyn’s Phil Willson Curator of Contemporary Art in the galleries or over drinks in the ConAgra Foods Atrium.
Jonathan Frederick Walz currently serves as the Curator of American Art
at the Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has
held positions at the National Gallery of Art, Washington; the
Smithsonian American Art Museum; and the David C. Driskell Center for
the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the
African Diaspora. His article, “The Act of Portrayal and the Art of
Dying: Charles Demuth ‘Faces’ Mortality,” will appear in Ricerche di
Storia dell’arte in early 2015. In addition to his responsibilities at
the Sheldon, he is co-curating This Is a Portrait If I Say So:
Reimagining Representation in American Art, 1912–Today, to appear at the
Bowdoin College Museum of Art in 2017.
Avery Mazor maintains a
hybrid creative practice focusing on both graphic design and fine art.
As a design and art director he has worked with numerous global brand
names as both an independent creative professional and an in-studio art
director. In his fine art practice, Avery creates conceptual artworks
that are not media/medium specific and are concerned with the tensions
between personal truths and universal realities. Avery attended San
Francisco State University and received his BAIA in multimedia in 2000
and received his MFA in art from Mills College in Oakland, California in
2006. Currently, he is an assistant professor of art and design at the
University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Mary Zicafoose weaves powerful
contemporary statements in cloth. A master at weft ikat, a complex
design dye process, her work has been represented in Poland’s Triennial
of Tapestry, Museo de Textil, Oaxaca, Mexico, China National Silk Museum
and in eighteen United States Embassy collections. Zicafoose received
her BFA from St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana, graduate studies
include the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of
Nebraska. A USA Artist finalist and former Bemis Center for
Contemporary Arts resident, she is Co-director of the American Tapestry
Alliance, Board Chair of the Union for Contemporary Art, and board
member of GoodWeave USA. She teaches and lectures internationally and
works from her studio in Omaha, NE.