Time and Place
Time: 4:30pm (Central)
Location: Architecture and Urban Planning Room 170 – UWM Campus – 2131 E Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53211
Public Art Dialogue presentation by Vivian Beer
Other dates:
10/09/2024 (Wednesday):
Individual and small group critiques with undergrads and grads from Art and Architecture
10/10/2024 (Thursday) @ 11:20 am – 2:00 pm:
In-person Tech Share: A Technical Workshop about designing and fabricating Large Scale and Public Art. The workshop will focus on methods, tooling, fixtures, jigs and pricing this expensive aspect of making large scale work on a budget at Peck School of the Arts Kenilworth Square East Blacksmithing and Forming Studio KSE 61.
10/11/2024 (Friday) @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm:
In-person Lynden Sculpture Garden Tour and Public Art Walk and Talk
11/20/2024:
Artist Now! Visiting Artist Talk
BIO:
Vivian Beer is a furniture designer/maker based in New England. Her sleek, abstracted metal and concrete furniture combines the aesthetic sensibilities of contemporary design, craft, and sculpture to create objects that alter viewers’ expectations of and interface with the domestic landscape. With a strong foundation in contemporary furniture design, her research into the history of American industry, architecture, and transportation adds intellectual rigor and specificity to her work.
Her Infrastructure, Streamline and Anchored Candy series are physical manifestations of the cultural and industrial history of her materials even as they serve as intellectual bridges for their users, bringing them to a new way of conceiving the built world through a luxurious deployment of the senses. Her work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, MFA Boston, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Museum of Arts and Design and the cities of Portland ME, Arlington VA and Cambridge MA.
She holds an MFA from Cranbrook Academy and received their 2016 Alumni Achievement Award. Beer has won numerous awards and residencies including the John D. Mineck Furniture Fellowship, Penland School of crafts Residency, Wingate Artist Residency, Museum of Glass, Pilchuck and a Research Fellowship at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.
Questions, comments?
All lectures are free and open to planners, students, staff, faculty, and friends of the University. Please contact Karl Wallick, Department of Architecture
