Visiting Artist Lecture: Beverly McIver

Professional Development for Artists Presentation: 1:00 p.m.

Artist Talk: 6:30 p.m.

Beverly McIver, born in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1962, has gained national prominence for her artwork, which challenges cultural assumptions about race, gender, and her own identity as an African American woman. McIver has received numerous grants and awards including a Rome Prize Fellowship, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a Radcliffe Fellowship from Harvard University, a Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation award, a distinguished Alumni Award from Pennsylvania State University, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, and a Creative Capital grant. She is currently the Ebenshade Professor of the Practice in Studio Arts at Duke University.

McIver's Professional Development for Artists Presentation and Visiting Artist Lecture are presented in conjunction the exhibition With, Through, and Beyond: Visiting Artists Celebrate 20 Years of the Women's Art Institute, on view in MCAD's second floor galleries through October 13. Free and open to the general public.