Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Walid Raad

Presented by the Division of Art at SMU Meadows School of the Arts, the Visiting Artist Lecture Series provides students with access to eminent artists and critics and promotes a broader cultural dialogue with the contemporary art community. This spring, the Visiting Artist Series brings internationally recognized and artistically diverse artists to Meadows to discuss their work and process for creating art that provokes, inspires and ultimately challenges perceptions. Walid Raad works with video, photography, and literary essays to investigate the contemporary history of war in his native Lebanon. Highly regarded for his project The Atlas Group, Raad grapples with the representation of traumatic events of collective historical dimensions and the ways film, video, and photography function as documents of physical and psychological violence. Raad is an Associate Professor at Cooper Union in New York. Raad will join Noah Simblist, Assistant Professor of Art, SMU and Sarah Rogers, Eleanor Tufts Pre-Doctoral Fellow in Art History, SMU, in a conversation about his work. For more information, please call the Division of Art at 214-768-2489. These programs are free and seating is available on a first-come, first served basis. Bob and Jean Smith Auditorium