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Tim Brown is the creative vision behind Allbirds, shoes, apparel, and accessories, where he combines his experiences as a World Cup soccer player for New Zealand with his background in business management and design. Brown is driven by a desire to do things better, his design practice is balanced with his active advocacy for sustainable practices in business, with a focus on renewable practices for the materials, packaging, sources, and manufacturing of Allbirds.
This virtual event is free and open to the public, please register using the link below:
https://msu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wwvkHWZyTISvvqCRaJ5KmA
Dr. Kathleen Berzock | Wednesday, February 17 | Zoom Webinar | 6pm
Dr. Kathleen Berzock is the Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs, at the Block Museum, at Northwestern, specializing in African art. Her co-edited book (with Christa Clark) Representing Africa in American Art Museums: A Century of Collecting and Display (2010) chronicles more than a century of building and presenting collections of African art in the United States.
This event is additionally sponsored by the African American and African Studies Program and the Museum Studies Program.
This virtual event is free and open to the public please register to join using the link below:
https://msu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_61OzIX-5RfWPD9DOryNOOw
Tanner Woodford | Thursday, March 25| Virtual on Zoom | 6pm
Tanner Woodford is the founder and executive director of the Design Museum of Chicago. He teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and makes Iterative Work. His research includes design issues, social change, and design history. His belief that design has the capacity to fundamentally improve the human condition is rooted in all of his pursuits. This virtual event is free and open to the public.
To join please register using the link below:
https://msu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qLfFAehIRLeYi7m0iVKAHw
The College of Arts & Letters and the Department of Art, Art History and Design are pleased to host internationally acclaimed visual artist Ann Hamilton as the Spring 2021 Signature Lecture. Hamilton is best known for her large-scale multimedia installations, public projects, and performance collaborations. Her site-responsive process works with common materials to invoke particular places, collective voices, and communities of labor. Hamilton is a Distinguished University Professor at The Ohio State University.
This virtual event will be held on zoom and is free and open to the public but requires preregistration. To register please click here. For more information about Ann Hamilton and her work, please see this teaching resources packet, for MSU Students, Faculty, and Staff, accessible only with an MSU NetID and password, prepared by Lily Woodruff, Associate Professor, Art History and Visual Culture.
Signature Lecture Series
Originally founded as the Celebrity Lecture Series in 1998 by the College of Arts & Letters and the Dean’s Community Council, the series was later renamed the Signature Lecture Series in 2007 and allows notable public figures to interact and engage with the faculty, students, and greater community of Michigan State University through conversations and discussions.
Support for this series has come from sponsors both within the university community and the community at large. Their generosity has been critical in attracting the best and most qualified individuals to conduct an informed and wide-ranging discussion of contemporary ideas and creative achievements in the arts and humanities.
The popularity of this series has attracted some of the most illustrious scholars, critics, novelists, poets, film producers, and creative artists of our time, including Soledad O’Brien, Ken Burns, Oliver Stone, Richard Ford, and Maya Angelou, and most recently Claudia Rankine, just to name a few.