Talk by Distinguished Visitor Susan Hagen, Sculptor and Professor of Arts, Bucks County Community CollegeTalk by Distinguished Visitor Susan Hagen, Sculptor and Professor of Arts, Bucks County Community Collegehttp://www.haverford.edu/calendar/details/244052Stokes 102 - Humanities Center2013-09-16T16:30:002013-09-16T18:00:00
September 16, 4:30PM
Stokes 102 - Humanities Center
A talk by artist Susan Hagen whose work addresses human rights, violence; social justice; equality across race, gender, cultures, and other categorical boundaries; and more.
from "Citizens of Philly" (2012-present) part of the "Social Studies" Exhibit
Description
Artist Susan Hagen will give a talk intended engage students and faculty in a discussion of the four series of works in her current "Social Studies" exhibition, which is concerned with representing war, incarceration, homelessness, and the complexities of being a teenager. The show is at the Center for Art in Wood in Old City is documented online, in an exhibitions essay by art critic Robin Rice, and has been praised by the Philadelphia Inquirer and other publications.
Susan Hagen is a highly respected mid-career sculptor whose work is represented in Philadelphia by the Schmidt-Dean Gallery and has been widely shown in single and multiple artist exhibition here and elsewhere. Her current exhibition "Social Studies" at the Center for Art in Wood in Old City is documented online, in an exhibitions essay by art critic Robin Rice, and has been praised by the Philadelphia Inquirer and other publications. She is probably best known for her "Recollection Tableaux," a series of site-specific works that reflect on life in Eastern State Penitentiary.
Hagen is an elegant speaker and writer with a strong body of publications on the arts She served as Interim Department Head for the Visual Arts and is an Associate Professor, Department of the Arts, Buck County Community College, which includes faculty with significant local and national reputations.
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