Visiting speaker talks about African wood carving today

The Africa Program is sponsoring a lecture on African wood carvings from 2 to 3 p.m. today in 2102A Fine Arts Building.

Speaker Aderonke A. Adesanya of the University of Ibadan in Nigeria is a lecturer on African art and an ethnographic field researcher. She has more than 10 years of experience as a cartoonist in Nigerian newspapers.

The lecture is free and open to the public, and it is co-sponsored by the Office of the Provost, the College of Liberal Arts, the Department of Art and Art History and the Women’s Studies Program. For information, call 817-272-5302.

— Larissa Robinson

Ceramic artist to present sculpture art slide lecture

Visiting ceramic artist Colby Parsons-O’Keefe will present a slide lecture from noon to 1:30 p.m. today in The Gallery at UTA, Room 148 Fine Arts Building.

Parsons-O’Keefe is a clay assistant professor at Texas Woman’s University.

Art associate professor Nicholas Wood, head of ceramics in the Art and Art History Department, invited Parsons-O’Keefe to speak after seeing some of his work.

“I wanted to pick someone who was relatively local,” Wood said, adding that because Parsons-O’Keefe is a teacher, he thought he would be a good speaker for students.

Wood said the art presented will include sculptures with projected film images.

“There’s a ceramic piece on a pedestal, and digital images are projected onto the ceramic piece and onto the wall,” he said.

A reception with free food will follow the lecture.

For information, call Wood at 817-272-7329.

— Alicia Kania

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