Announcement: Artist Kalup Linzy to speak November 3 as part of Pratt's 2009-2010 Visiting Artist Lecture Series

Artist Kalup Linzy will speak at Pratt Institute about his
influences, artwork, and career as part of the 2009-2010 Visiting
Artists Lecture Series, from 12:45 p.m. to 1:45 p.m., Tuesday, November
3, in the Engineering Building, Room 371, on Pratt's Brooklyn Campus. The
lecture is free and open to the public.

The Pratt Visiting Artists Lecture Series is an annual year-long series
organized by the Department of Fine Arts in the School of Art and Design
at Pratt Institute to welcome nationally and internationally recognized
fine artists to share their experiences with the Pratt community.

Brooklyn-based Linzy will speak about the methods, craft, and influences
behind his video and performance art and works on paper.

Linzy has exhibited at the P.S.1/Museum of Modern Art Contemporary Art
Center in New York, and recently had a solo show at the Studio Museum in
Harlem in spring 2009. He was named a Guggenheim Fellow for 2007-2008 and
has received grants from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Creative
Capital, and the Jerome Foundation. Linzy's work has been reviewed in The
New York Times, Art in America, and Artforum.

Linzy received a bachelor of fine arts degree and master of fine arts
degree from the University of South Florida. He attended the Skowhegan
School of Painting and Sculpture video art workshop in 2002 and is
currently represented by Taxter & Spengemann, New York.

Linzy is the third artist of eight invited to speak as part of the fall
program of the 2009-2010 Visiting Artists Lecture Series. The series is
coordinated by graduate students Yael Rechter and Elizabeth Stehling
under the supervision of Professor Dominique Nahas in the Department of
Fine Arts.

For more information on this year's series, contact vals@pratt.edu or
visit http://prattartistsleague.com/wp/visiting-artists-lecture-series.

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