Dan S. Wang will give a presentation at 7 p.m. in Epperson Auditorium.

Wang is an artist, printer and writer who teaches printmaking as an adjunct faculty member at Columbia College Chicago. He has been published nationally and internationally, and his drawings, prints, sculptures and other projects have been exhibited in several group shows. Wang is a co-founder of Mess Hall, an experimental cultural space in Chicago.

ArtSounds presents "Playing Fields," a collaboration between James Mobberley and Brett Reif.

7:30 p.m. in Epperson Auditorium.

"Playing Fields" is an evolving installation and visual concert in one act. The work developed from conversations about sound textures, object textures, and unorthodox creative processes.

"Playing Fields" refers to the manner in which people domesticate, organize, collect, beautify, clean, cook and play in an attempt to posses, to keep, to know.

The event does describe a subtle narrative about desire but the overall sequence is largely a blurry narrative that has multiple associations and interpretations while straddling the concert, gallery and theater experiences.

ArtSounds is a series where composers, performers and visual artists join together to present a series of performances. Initiated by faculty from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and the Kansas City Art Institute, ArtSounds explores cross-media expression through creative concert-making.  Faculty partners from each institution produce provocative events that explore a maximum breadth of means, methods, media and music: art sounds and music sees.
 

"The power of art in communities"

11:30 a.m.

Epperson Auditorium

"Learn to Teach" is a series of talks relating to the topic of how to be an effective teacher in a community setting. The lecture series is free and open to the public.

For details, visit our Learn to Teach page.

Stuart Horodner will give a lecture in conjunction with the Visiting Curator and Critic Program, hosted by the H&R Block Artspace.

7 p.m.

Epperson Auditorium

Horodner is the artistic director of the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. He was also the founder and co-organizer of Affair at the Jupiter Hotel, an intimate art fair in Portland, Ore., from 2004 to 2007. He has contributed art writing to numerous publications.

Classes will not be held March 13-21 during mid-semester break. Administrative offices will remain open, except for Monday, March 15.
 

“Community 2009: Asian Art Worlds” with Kris Imants Ercums, curator of Asian art, Spencer Museum of Art, will take place at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, March 24 at the H&R Block Artspace.

Recently returned from a two-month intensive research trip supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and KU International Programs, Ercums will discuss the multiple art communities emerging in cities across Asia, including Seoul, Beijing, Hangzhou, the Pearl River Delta, Mumbai and Delhi.

Ercums’ research centers on Asian artists who have grown up in the digital age and who have developed creative practices informed by the increased connectivity of our times. His current project focuses on two particular areas of contemporary artistic practice that have transcended national boundaries: emerging ideas about corporeality (including altered bodies, the body in social space and the body in virtual space) and the tendency of artists to experiment with, manipulate, construct and reorder history and received cultural forms.

Ezra Johnson will speak at 7 p.m. in Epperson Auditorium.

Johnson received his B.F.A. degree in painting from the California College of Arts and Crafts in San Francisco in 2000 and completed an M.F.A. degree in painting in 2006 at Hunter College in New York. His work has been shown at numerous exhibitions including solo gallery shows in New York, Los Angeles and Turin, Italy.

“The 2009 Charlotte Street Foundation Visual Artists Awards” featuring new work by fellows Dylan Mortimer, Jaimie Warren and Andrzej Zielinski closes today at the H&R Block Artspace.