WEAVING AS METAPHOR LECTURE SERIES

Whenever Wednesday, March 30 @ 6:30pm

Explore the idea of weaving in the cultural landscape through a series of programs inspired by the work of Sheila Hicks. Four dynamic Philadelphia-area scholars will draw out these ideas in their own fields—music, architecture, economics, and religion—unraveling the ways weaving threads through so much of the contemporary and the ancient world.

The series commences with:
Music: with Michael Gallope, PhD Candidate, Music, NYU; Graduate Student Research Fellow, NYU Humanities Initiative

PENNDESIGN FINE ARTS LECTURE SERIES @ ICA WITH MICHELLE GRABNER

Thursday, March 31 @ 6pm

Hear renowned artists speak about their work as this popular series of public lectures continues. This evening's guest lecturer is painter Michelle Grabner whose abstract work consists of repetitious vocabulary and simple mathematical ordering. Ms. Grabner is represented by Shane Campbell Gallery in Chicago and Rocket in London, and lives and works in Oak Park, Illinois. The most recent book on her work is published by Poor Farm Press (2010) and entitled Can I Come Over to Your House: The First Ten Years of the Suburban, and includes an essay by Michael Newman.

Images (top to bottom): Sheila Hicks, Move Over, c.1970, cotton, nylon, ricrac, 8 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches. Private collection. Photo by Bastiaan van den Berg. Michelle Grabner, Untitled, 2009, silver point and black gesso on paper, 50 x 50 inches. Courtesy of the artist. ICA field trip to visiting architecture by Anne Tyng in and around Philadelphia on March 19th. Photo by Jenna Weiss.