The Visiting Artist and Speakers Program in the School of Art and Design in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts will present a lecture by painter Margaret McCann on Tuesday, March 20, at 7:30 p.m. in Maxwell Auditorium. Parking is available in Irving Garage.
McCann is currently a visiting professor of painting in the School of Art and Design. She exhibits paintings of giants in architecture, macrocosmic still-lifes and surreal self-portraits at Galleria Antonia Jannone in Milan, Italy, and with the Zeuxis group. A recipient of an Ingram Merrill grant and a Fulbright award to Italy, she taught art in Rome for eight years and had a residency at the Cite des Arts in Paris.
McCann studied at Washington University in St. Louis, where she earned a bachelor of fine arts degree; Yale University, where she earned a master of fine arts degree; and at the New York Studio School.
She writes art reviews for Art New England and the satirical column "Woman on the Street" online for The Wire, http://www.wirenh.com.
For more information, contact Kathy Tills at (315) 443-2186 or
kmtills@syr.edu.