Art Critic Miwon Kwon To Speak @ Watkins

125^th Anniversary Artist Lecture Series Presents Art Critic Miwon Kwon at Watkins College of Art Design & Film

Thursday, December 2, Reception 6:15 pm, Lecture 7:00 pm, Campus Theater

Free and open to the public

On December 2, art critic Miwon Kwon will speak as part of Watkins’ 125^th Anniversary lecture series. Hailed as one of the leading art critics of the 21^st Century, Kwon’s research and writings have engaged several disciplines including contemporary art, architecture, public art and urban studies. Trained in architecture, Kwon holds an MFA in Photography and has extensive curatorial experience from her tenure at the Whitney Museum of American Art in the early 1990s. She received her PhD in Architectural History and Theory from Princeton University in 1998, the same year in which she joined the faculty at UCLA to teach contemporary art history. A reception will begin at 6:15 and the lecture will follow at 7pm in the campus theater.