SU School of Art and Design hosts public lecture by painter Margaret McCann March 20

SU School of Art and Design hosts public lecture by painter Margaret McCann March 20March 07, 2007Erica Blustesblust@syr.edu

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.