Art & Design hosts visiting artist Nancy Friese


Art & Design proudly presents its next Visiting Artist Lecture, featuring Nancy Friese. A painter and printmaker, Friese will lecture about her art at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 18, in the Paul E. Barr lecture room (room 227) of the Hughes Fine Arts Center.

Nancy Friese received three National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, including the Japan-US Friendship Commission Creative Artist fellowship. She was granted the Lila Acheson Wallace Giverny fellowship, a Blanche E. Colman Award, Pollock-Krasner Foundation funding and a George Sugarman Foundation grant for painting. She has shown work at the Barbican Center, London, Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark, Tokyo's Metropolitan Art Museum and the Bronx River Arts Center. She is a professor of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University.

During the week of Feb. 15-19, Friese will produce a suite of five etchings titled "Tumbling Time" at the Art & Design Sundog Press, a collaborative print project that includes poetry by Laurel Reuter. For further information, please call professor Kim W. Fink at 777-2905.
-- Art & Design