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Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Michelle Angela Ortiz

Virtual Event

September 10, 2025 | 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Artist Michelle Angela Ortiz work installed on concrete stairs showing two eyes with ribbons of muted color.

Date & Time
Wednesday, September 10, 2025 (7:30–9 p.m.)

Location
Virtual

Michelle Angela Ortiz is a Philadelphia-based artist, muralist, community arts educator, and filmmaker who uses her art as a vehicle to represent people and communities whose histories are often lost or co-opted. For 25 years, Ortiz has designed and created over 50 large-scale public works nationally and internationally. In 2016, she received the Americans for the Arts’ Public Art Year in Review Award which honors outstanding public art projects in the nation.

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 Michelle Angela Ortiz’s website.

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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.