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Artists, critics to lecture at UNC’s Hanes Art Center

CHAPEL HILL -- Internationally recognized artists and critics will deliver free public lectures presented by the art department through March at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The talks, comprising this year’s Hanes Visiting Artist Lecture Series, will be at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of the Hanes Art Center on South Columbia Street, with paid parking available in the Swain visitors lot off Cameron Avenue. Free parking is available in some campus lots after 5 p.m. weekdays.

The series, which begins tonight (Oct. 30) with photographer Emmet Gowin, is funded by a gift from UNC alumnae Robin March Hanes of Asheville and Nancy Hanes White of Raleigh.

"The longstanding generosity of the Hanes family allows us to bring in first-rate people year after year," said art professor Carol Mavor. "This is a real opportunity for the university and the local community."

Additional dates and speakers will be:

• Nov. 3, Colin Ford, founder and head of the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television in Bradford, England, and curator of the exhibit "Julia Margaret Cameron, 19^th-Century Photographer of Genius," which opened Oct. 21 at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Previously the exhibit was seen at the Bradford museum and the National Portrait Gallery in London. Ford also wrote a biography of Cameron and co-wrote "Julia Margaret Cameron, The Complete Photographs," both from Getty Publications. Ford has been deputy curator of the National Film Archive in London and keeper of film and photography at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
  
  
• Nov. 5, Laylah Ali, professor of painting and drawing at Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., whose work is represented by the 303 Gallery in New York. "Her work raises questions about identity and power struggles in contemporary society," Mavor said. Ali’s work has been shown in group and solo exhibits across the country.
  
  
• Feb. 5, Dannielle Tegeder of Brooklyn, N.Y., whose seemingly abstract, brightly colored paintings and drawings are architectural plans for underground safe cities. Tegeder earned a master’s degree in fine arts in 1997 at the School of Art Institute of Chicago and won a Fulbright Scholar Grant to Pakistan last year. She has written: "As subjects, I use biotechnological illustration charts, underground and air transportation paths, diagrams of plumbing and heating systems and computer-based technological images. I then transform them with vivid colors through painting and drawing. … Throughout this transformation, I attempt to infuse my subject matter with a piercing beauty and a bit of humor."
  
  
• March 24, Archer Prewitt, an illustrator and comic artist educated at the Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri. Prewitt created and draws the Sof’ Boy comic published by Drawn and Quarterly of Montreal and has drawn for Marvel Comics. Also a pop music artist, Prewitt sings, writes, produces and plays guitar as a solo artist and with the Chicago band, The Sea and the Cake.

For more information, call the art department at 962-2015.

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News Services contact: L.J. Toler, (919) 962-8589, laura_toler@unc.edu