A Closer Look Lecture Series
The School of Creative Arts presents a diverse group of artists, art historians and critics in its Closer Look Lecture Series. This series engages the Fort Wayne Community and the Tri-state region in the analysis of specific art forms and artists in a variety of mediums.
All Closer Look lectures and performances are free to the public. This year's series was made possible in part by Canon Explorers of Light, Arts United of Greater Fort Wayne, the Indiana Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Artist Lecture with Stephen Perfect: 40 Years of Photography
Monday, February 6, 7:30pm, North Campus Auditorium
Local photographer Stephen Perfect will have a retrospective photography exhibition at the Lupke Gallery, University of Saint Francis. Known for his use of a variety of photographic techniques, Perfect will display 30 different types of photographs from historical techniques to the newest forms of digital manipulation of the photographic medium. This exhibition will show his ability to experiment with developing and transfer techniques as well as his unique control of composition from landscape, to still-life, to abstraction. This lecture is free and open to the public.
Lauren Greenfield - Canon Explorers of Light
Thursday March 1, 7:30pm, North Campus Auditorium
Acclaimed photographer Lauren Greenfield is considered a preeminent chronicler of youth culture as a result of her groundbreaking projects Girl Culture and Fast Forward. She is an American artist, documentary photographer, and documentary filmmaker. She has published three monographs of her photographic work, directed four documentary films, exhibited her photographic prints in museums throughout the world, and had her work published in a variety of leading magazines and other publications around the world. Greenfield’s photographic work and films generally deals with issues relating to the influence of popular culture on how we live (youth culture, gender identity, body image, eating disorders, media, wealth, fashion, beauty, and consumerism). She was named by American Photo as one of the 25 most influential photographers working today (May/June, 2003). Her work is in many major collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Getty Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the International Center of Photography, the Center for Creative Photography, the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), the Smith College Museum of Art, the Harvard University Archive, the Clinton Library, and the French Ministry of Culture. She is represented by the Pace/MacGill Gallery in New York and the Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles.