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Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Laura Farahzad Mayer

Virtual Event

October 14 | 7:00 pm – 8:50 pm

Artwork showing an inverted ice cream cone with a blurred, elongated scoop inside a bright pink frame.

Date & Time
Wednesday, October 14, 2026 (7–8:50 p.m.)

Location
Virtual

Laura Farahzad Mayer is a Milwaukee-based artist and educator. Her experience growing up as the daughter of an Iranian immigrant in a small town informs her work, which navigates through the grief of losing her father while seeking to connect two generations – her father and her children – who were never living at the same time. Her work explores themes of memory, grief, culture, and generational storytelling. Mayer is a professor at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design and is a recipient of the 2026 Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists.

Throughout the fall and spring semesters, the Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series welcomes a diverse group of nationally and internationally recognized artists working across traditional, hybrid and emergent disciplines. Join us to explore and expand boundaries of creative visual practices alongside others with an interest in contemporary visual art.

Visit Laura Farahzad Mayer’s website.

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Zoom Meeting ID: 517 317 5108

Zoom Passcode: 974465

The Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series is supported in part by the UWM Black & Gold Committee and Differential Tuition funds, Frederick R. Layton Fund, the John Colt Memorial Art Fund, The Queer Curatorial Fund, Center for 21st Century Studies, Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists, Print Club, Focus, and OBJECT.