Guest Faculty Lecture: Lan Tuazon and Vitus Shell

Jun 13, 2023 7PM-8PM

Schermer Meeting Hall

Sunday and Tuesday evenings, June through September, the Ranch features a 60-minute presentation by distinguished faculty members and Visiting Artists. These insightful talks dive into inspiration, the creative process and more.

Guest Faculty Lectures are free, open to the public, and available in person or via livestream. Registration is required for attendance. All on-campus workshop participants will be pre-registered for this event.

Panel

Lan Tuazon

Lan Tuazon is an associate professor of Sculpture at School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently working on Future Fossils, a durational and documentary sculpture about the scale of the human footprint of consumption. Her solo exhibitions include the Brooklyn Museum and Storefront of Art and Architecture in New York, Visual Arts Center at the University of Texas in Austin, and Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago.

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Vitus Shell

Vitus Shell is a mixed-media collage painter born in Monroe, LA, where he lives and works. His work is geared toward the black experience, giving agency to people from this community through powerful images deconstructing, sampling, and remixing identity, civil rights, and contemporary black culture. He received a BFA from Memphis College of Art in Tennessee and an MFA from the University of Mississippi.

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