Nationally renowned painters, illustrators and multi-media artists whose works have drawn inspiration from diverse sources spanning the globe from France and Italy to Havana and Brooklyn will discuss their artistic vision and creative process during the Western Connecticut State University spring semester Master of Fine Arts lecture series continuing from Jan. 31 through April 17.
All lectures, sponsored by the WCSU Department of ArtM.F.A. in Visual Arts program, will be at 11 a.m. in Room 144 of the Visual and Performing Arts Center on the university’s Westside campus, 43 Lake Ave. Extension in Danbury. Admission will be free and the public is invited.
The series will begin on Tuesday, Jan. 31, with a lecture by illustrator Edel Rodriguez, a Havana-born immigrant who fled Cuba at the age of 9 with his family in the 1980 Mariel boatlift. Recipient of an M.F.A. from Hunter College, Rodriguez is a regular contributor to The New York Times and The New Yorker and has designed covers for magazines including Time, Newsweek, Business Week, Village Voice and The Nation. He also has written and illustrated children’s books and created book covers for works published by Simon and Schuster and Penguin Random House.