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Nicolas Lampert to visit GVSU in November
October 11, 2016
As part of the lecture series "Art and The Radical", the Department of Art and Design hosts its second event on Monday, November 7th, 2016, 4:30 p.m., in room 132 Lake Huron Hall, in the Allendale campus. The unit is proud to welcome Nicolas Lampert to campus. Lampert is part of this year's lecture series that will feature creative workers whose projects deepen our understanding of the world by revealing alternate histories, highlighting marginalized communities, and challenging widely held beliefs and traditions.
Lampert is a Milwaukee-based interdisciplinary artist and author whose work focuses on themes of social justice and ecology. His artwork is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Milwaukee Art Museum, among others. Collectively, he works with three groups: the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative - a worker-owned printmaking cooperative of thirty artists in North America that formed in 2007, ReciproCITY – a mobile experimental cultural center that focuses on urban agricultural projects and community activism in Milwaukee and beyond, and Climate Prints - a website/activist infrastructure project that shares downloadable graphics on Climate Justice and puts this work directly into movements. Lampert has collaborated as an artist on past activist campaigns with TAMMS Year Ten, Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), Voces de la Frontera, the Chicago chapter of the Rain Forest Action Network, and 350.org. His first book A People’s Art History of the United States: 250 Years of Activist Art and Artists Working in Social Justice Movements was published by The New Press in 2013 and is part of the People’s History Series edited by Howard Zinn. Lampert is a full-time faculty member (academic staff appointment) in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a joint appointment in Printmaking and Writing and Critical Thinking.
For more information on Nicolas Lampert, please visit https://www.nicolaslampert.org/.
Lampert's presentation concludes the fall leg of the "Art and The Radical Series". The program will resume in the winter with a visit by Jeanne Vaccaro. Vaccaro is a writer and curator working at the intersection of performance, visual culture, feminist art and archives, histories of the body, and queer studies. Her lecture date and time will be announced soon.