BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//吃瓜头条 Events - ECPv6.15.17.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:吃瓜头条 Events X-ORIGINAL-URL:/events X-WR-CALDESC:Events for 吃瓜头条 Events REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250117T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250117T170000 DTSTAMP:20260617T063215 CREATED:20250121T145059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250121T145059Z UID:10070821-1737100800-1737133200@www.wcsu.edu SUMMARY:Visiting Artist Lecture - Eric Velasquez\, Illustrator DESCRIPTION:VISITING ARTIST LECTURE 鈥 ERIC VELASQUEZ\, ILLUSTRATOR:\nTuesday\, April 22\, 11 a.m.\nVisual & Performing Arts Center\, room 144\,吃瓜头条\, Westside Campus\nFree & Open to the Public\, Limited Seating Available\nRSVP Required \nEric Velasquez is an illustrator who lives and works in New York. He was born in Spanish Harlem\, the son of Afro-Puerto Rican parents\, and attended the High School of Art and Design. He earned his B.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts and also studied with Harvey Dinnerstein at the Art Students鈥 League. Illustrating for over 30 years\, he teaches book illustration at FIT in NYC. \nVelasquez began his career as a freelance illustrator in 1984 and in the first 12 years\, completed over 300 book jackets and interior illustrations. These included the complete series of 鈥淓ncyclopedia Brown鈥 and 鈥淭he Ghost Writers\,鈥 among others. In 1997\, he illustrated his first picture book\, 鈥淭he Piano Man鈥 by Debbie Chocolate\, for which he won the Coretta-Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent. Many books and awards have followed. He received the NAACP Image Award in 2010 for 鈥淥ur Children Can Soar\,鈥 on which he collaborated with 12 notable illustrators of children鈥檚 literature. He also wrote and illustrated 鈥淕randma鈥檚 Records鈥 and 鈥淕randma鈥檚 Gift\,鈥 which won the 2011 Pura Belpre Award for Illustration. His latest book 鈥淪chomburg: The Man Who Built a Library鈥 by Carole Boston Weatherford has gathered rave reviews and has won the 2018 Walter Award\, as well as the Golden Kite Award. URL:/events/calendar/visiting-artist-lecture-eric-velasquez-illustrator/ LOCATION:VPAC Room 144\, 43 Lake Ave. Extension\, Danbury\, CT CATEGORIES:Art,Lectures,Speaker,Visual & Performing Arts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:/events/wp-content/uploads/sites/181/2023/10/Dept-of-Art-generic-image.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250117T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250117T170000 DTSTAMP:20260617T063215 CREATED:20250122T150405Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250122T150405Z UID:10070814-1737100800-1737133200@www.wcsu.edu SUMMARY:Visiting Artist Lecture - Ying Li\, Painter DESCRIPTION:VISITING ARTIST LECTURE 鈥 YING LI\, PAINTER:\nMon\, February 24\, 11 a.m.\nVisual & Performing Arts Center\, room 144\, 吃瓜头条\, Westside campus\nFree & Open to the Public\, Limited Seating Available\nRSVP required \nYing Li was born in Beijing\, China\, and studied traditional landscape painting at Anhui Normal University\, where she received her BFA and then taught for six years. She immigrated to the U.S. in 1983 and received her M.F.A. from Parsons School of Design. She lives and works in NYC and Haverford\, Pennsylvania\, where she is the Phlyssa Koshland Professor in Fine Arts at Haverford College\, where she has taught since 1997. \nLi鈥檚 work is represented by Pamela Salisbury Gallery in Hudson\, New York\, Gross McCleaf Gallery in Philadelphia\, and Alice Gauvin Gallery in Portland\, Maine. It has been featured in international exhibitions in the U.S.\, Switzerland\, Italy\, Ireland and France. In NYC\, she has shown with several galleries\, including Lohin Geduld\, Elizabeth Harris\, Tibor de Nagy\, and Lori Bookstein Fine Art. She has been in group shows at the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Academy Museum\, where she received the Edwin Palmer Memorial Prize for Painting and the Henry Ward Ranger Fund Purchase Award. \nLi has received many residency awards\, including Artist in Residence at Hollins University (in 2024)\, Dartmouth College\, Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome\, and various residency fellowships in Switzerland\, Spain\, Ireland\, France\, Canada\, and the U.S. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times\, The New Yorker\, Art Forum\, Art in America\, and Hyperallergic\, among others. \nReserve a spot at www.eventbrite.com/e/visiting-artist-lecture-ying-li-painter-tickets-1154022415109. URL:/events/calendar/visiting-artist-lecture-ying-li-painter/ LOCATION:VPAC Room 144\, 43 Lake Ave. Extension\, Danbury\, CT CATEGORIES:Art,Lectures,Painting,Speaker ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:/events/wp-content/uploads/sites/181/2023/10/Dept-of-Art-generic-image.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR