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Artist Lecture Series

Watkins’ Community Education Program is committed to the institution’s mission of creating a learning-centered environment. Through the Artist Lecture Series, Watkins engages the minds of our students and community members by inviting world-renowned visual artists, filmmakers, graphic designers, interior designers, and photographers to campus to offer talks, panel discussion, student critiques and to exhibit in the Brownlee O. Currey, Jr. Gallery. Previous artists have included David Berman, Sam Dunson, Ming Fay, Teri Jones, and Faith Wilding. The 2008/2009 Artist Lecture Series will present Barry Cook and Jeff Silva. Watkins thanks Regions Bank and Millenium Maxwell House Hotel for the generosity of their sponsorship of this series.

Visiting Artist Exhibition with Jeff Silva
Thursday, March 12, 2009                                                             
Lecture 5:00 p.m., Watkins Theatre
Exhibition Opening & Reception 6:00 p.m., Brownlee O. Currey, Jr. Gallery
Balkan RhapsodiesJeff Daniel Silva is an international artist and curator currently based in the US. Silva studied Cinema and Photography at Ithaca College and received an MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier. He currently teaches experimental, documentary and ethnographic film studies and production at Harvard University & the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Jeff is also the co-founder and co-curator of the acclaimed Balagan Experimental Film Series. Over the past ten years Jeff has developed a diverse body of work from multi-channel installations to short films and experimental documentaries that have screened at festivals and exhibits in galleries internationally. His most recently completed project Balkan Rhapsodies: 78 Measures of War has garnered awards and been screened in Europe, Latin America and the US at the Museum of Modern Art (NY), Harvard Film Archive (Cambridge), DokumentArts (Germany) and the Valdivia International Film Festival (Chile) among others. Silva's installations, videos and documentary projects tend to challenge the boundaries and conventions of their form as he works fluidly between the interstices of art, documentary film and ethnography. Whether Silva is probing cultural or linguistic spaces, spatial or temporal logic, or exploring ethical or political concerns, his usage of the moving-image plays a central role in his corporeal expression and exploration of historical, political and moral ambiguities.

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