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Eric Fischl Offers Guidance for Figurative Artists at Otis College Summer Residency

One of the most influential figurative painters of our time, Eric Fischl, kicked off the Otis College of Art and Design Figurative Summer Residency program with a keynote lecture that covered his personal generative process.

Finding the Strength to do What is Necessary: Maggie Nelson Lectures on the Relationship Between Art and Care

Does an artist have an obligation to consider the act of “care” when creating? What does care mean, when should it be applied, and to whom should it be applied? Does the process of making art need to be redeemed by art serving a reparative function in society? Those were a sampling of the complex questions posed by award-winning writer Maggie Nelson in her Critic-in-Residence lecture, sponsored by the undergraduate Fine Arts department.

MFA Fine Arts Lecture Series: Nancy Lupo

Nancy Lupo is a Los Angeles based artist and sculptor. Her work traffics in a kind of erotics whose wires have been crossed and confused. Working with everyday mundane objects such as fruit and trashcans, Nancie's work alludes to the body, marking the space with a fragility that is both tantalizing and violating.