LU-MRRL Lecture Series
You are invited to the upcoming LU-MRRL Lecture Series event, "Surrealism and Feminine Rebellion." This event is scheduled for Wednesday, March 11 from 6:30-8 pm at the Art Gallery, Missouri River Regional Library (214 Adams Street, Jefferson City). This talk will feature Professor Colleen Francis Smith, Assistant Professor of Studio Art in Lincoln University's Department of Humanities and Communications.
Within the visual language of surrealism and its close cousin, magical realism, female artists are empowered to create their own narratives and play by their own rules, subverting gender norms and defying the patriarchal constructs of the societies they inhabit in their day-to-day lives. Colleen Francis Smith, artist and assistant professor of studio art at Lincoln, will lead us through an exploration of her own painting practice, addressing feminine agency and rebellion grounded in the lineage of female surrealist painters including Leonora Carrington and Dorothea Tanning.