Mark Newport will give a lecture at 7 p.m. in Epperson Auditorium.

Newport is the artist-in-residence and head of fiber at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. He earned his B.F.A. degree from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1986 and his M.F.A. degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1991. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States, Canada and Europe.