CONVERSATION: Artists and Intentional Walking

Conversation: Artists and Intentional Walking with Lin Lisberger and Professor Kim Theriault

Artists and Intentional Walking brings together artist Lin Lisberger (featured in the University of Southern Maine Art Gallery’s current exhibition, 20 Walks) and University of Southern Maine art history professor Kim Theriault for a public artist talk. Artists and Intentional Walking is a thought-provoking conversation that explores walking as a creative practice, highlighting examples of artists who have used walking to inform their work throughout history.

The discussion takes place indoors at Robie Andrews Hall, located on the University of Southern Maine Gorham campus. The talk will be held in Burnham Lounge (1st Floor) and is free and open to the general public. So that we may have an accurate headcount for the event, we kindly ask that you please register at the Eventbrite link. Lin Lisberger will be available at the University of Southern Maine Art Gallery following the artist conversation.

About the hosts:
Lin Lisberger has been a sculptor and woodcarver since the 1970s. She taught sculpture, drawing, and design at the University of Southern Maine from 1981 until her retirement in 2017. Lisberger has an MFA in Sculpture from the University of Pennsylvania (1980) and a BA in Literature from the University of California at Santa Cruz (1973), and she lives and has a studio in Portland. Her exhibition experience is widespread, and she has worked in several private and corporate collections. Her attention to form has been consistent, creating a foundation upon which an abstract narrative can be built, using narrative to emphasize her interest in humans and their journeys.

Kim S. Theriault holds a Ph.D. in Modernist and Contemporary Art History from the University of Virginia and is Professor Emerita of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois. She is the author of the book Rethinking Arshile Gorky and contributor to the 2009 exhibition and catalog for Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Theriault has been a featured speaker at such institutions as the Library of Congress, Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and Oxford University among others, and, having published articles exploring the seminal significance of the national Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC, this is the subject of her next book. Presently a part-time professor of art history in the Art Department at the University of Southern Maine, she is also curating Arshile Gorky: Connections and Community, an exhibition set to open at the Armenian Museum of America in Watertown, Massachusetts on December 11. Having spent a lifetime amongst visual artists, poets, writers, and performers, Theriault is acutely interested in what instigates creative practice, how process translates into product, and how cross-disciplinary approaches manifest new and exciting reinterpretations of art and history.

For more about 20 Walks, click here.

EVENT DETAILS

Parking is available in our University of Southern Maine Gorham campus lots G4, G4, and G6 at a rate of $1.05 per hour. You may reserve your parking ahead of time via the USM Parking Interface. Additionally, the Portland METRO Husky Bus picks up/drops off about a three-minute walk from the University of Southern Maine Art Gallery (Gorhamp campus). An updated bus schedule can be found on the METRO website and bus fair is $2 each way.