University of Oregon Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presented by the Department of Art and Center for Art Research Alfredo Jaar: “Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness” Wednesday, February 21, 4:00 p.m. Lawrence Hall, Room 115, 1190 Franklin Boulevard, Eugene, OR Lectures are also live streamed and the videos are archived on YouTube.
Alfredo Jaar will present recent works realized around the world. Jaar is an artist, architect, and filmmaker based in New York. His work has been shown extensively around the world. Over seventy-five monographic publications have been published about his work. A Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellow, he received the Hiroshima Art Prize in 2018 and the Hasselblad Award in 2020.
This lecture is part of the “Policing Justice Lecture Series” co-presented by the Department of Art and the Department of the History of Art and Architecture and co-sponsored in part by the Oregon Humanities Center Endowment for Public Outreach in the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities Fund in Art History, The Mark Sponenburgh Endowment, the Davis Family Art Endowment, and the Department of Art.
