Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture\: Laura Crehuet Berman
Artist Laura Crehuet Berman will present the Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 29 at 5\:30 p.m. in Sheldon Museum of Art's Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Berman is a native of Barcelona, Spain, where her love for pattern, design and bold colors originated. She has exhibited in more than 150 exhibitions at galleries and museums internationally, and her works are widely collected.
Her work has been featured in the books "Color Theory\: A Critical Introduction," "The Book of Probes," "Printmaking at the Edge," "Contemporary American Printmakers," "A Survey of Contemporary Printmaking" and "An Artist and a Mother."
As a professor at the Kansas City Art Institute, Berman has taught printmaking, book arts and color studies since 2002. She received her B.F.A. from Alfred University and her M.F.A. from Tulane University. Together with her family, she runs Prairieside Cottage and Outpost, a family-friendly artist retreat in the Flint Hills of Kansas.
Berman began publishing "Reflections on Color and Printmaking" in 2020, a series of interviews with contemporary artists. In 2024, she was a Fulbright Scholar t the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research at the University of Canberra in Australia and in 2026, she began a visiting professorship at the Centre for Print Research at the University of West England in Bristol.
The School of Art, Art History & Design's Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture Series brings notable artists, scholars and designers to Nebraska each semester to enhance the education of students. The series is presented in collaboration with Sheldon Museum of Art.
Underwritten by the Hixson-Lied Endowment with additional support from other sources, the series enriches the culture of the state by providing a way for Nebraskans to interact with luminaries in the fields of art, art history and design. Each visiting artist or scholar spends one to three days on campus to meet with classes, participate in critiques and give demonstrations.