Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Visiting Artist Lecture: Marie Lorenz
New York-based artist Marie Lorenz will deliver the Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Visiting Artist Lecture. Her work is rooted in the exploration and narrative of New York City’s waterfronts. Combining psycho-geographic exploration with highly crafted, material forms, Lorenz uses boats to create an uncertain space and bring about a heightened awareness of place. In 2005, she started her Tide and Current Taxi project, taking people around the New York Harbor in a boat built from salvaged materials, using the tide to guide her navigation. Solo exhibitions include Waterways, at the Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery at Bennington College (Bennington, Vt.); Tide and Current Taxi, at the Rib Gallery (Rotterdam, Netherlands); and Graybelt, a multimedia project funded by the Bridging Barriers research initiative, at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the recipient of many awards and residencies, including the Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. Lorenz earned an MFA from Yale.
This lecture is also part of the NCAA 50th annual conference hosted by WashU’s Sam Fox School.
Upcoming Public Lectures
Apr 14 at 5:30pm • Steinberg Auditorium
Rahul Mehrotra | AIA St. Louis Scholarship Trust Lecture
Rahul Mehrotra will deliver the AIA St. Louis Scholarship Trust Lecture as part of the Sam Fox School’s Public Lecture Series at WashU.
Rahul Mehrotra is the founding principal of RMA Architects in Mumbai and Boston. A professor of urban design and planning at Harvard, Mehrotra has led dozens of projects across India, from urban land recycling to housing, boutiques, factories, social institutes and commercial buildings. Recent highlights include an artists’ retreat near Mumbai, a housing project for elephants and their caretakers in Jaipur and the JSW School of Public Policy in Ahmedabad.