Expecting the Unexpected: Women Artists and Climate Change

Speaker:
Lucy R. Lippard

Speaker Title:
Writer/Curator/Editor/Lecturer/Activist

Event Description:

Lucy R. Lippard is a writer/curator/editor/lecturer/activist and author of twenty-one books on contemporary art and cultural criticism. Her most recent publications include Down Country: The Tano of the Galisteo Basin,1250-1782, The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multi centered Society and On the Beaten Track: Tourism,Art, and Place. She is a recipient of eight honorary degrees, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation grant, and the Caroline Bancroft History Prize, among other awards. Her most recent curatorial venture was Weather Report: Art and Climate Change (Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 2007). She lives in rural Galisteo,New Mexico where she is on the County Traditional Community Planning Committee, and for fifteen years has edited the monthly community newsletter, El Puente de Galisteo.

Sponsors:
School of Architecture

Website:
http://www.cfa.arizona.edu/vase