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Visiting Artist Lecture Series Lezley Saar: “Surrealism, Symbolism, and Significance”

Thu, 02/03/2022 - 4:00pm

Visiting Artist Lecture Series
Lezley Saar: “Surrealism, Symbolism, and Significance”
Presented by the Department of Art and Center for Art Research, co-sponsored by the JSMA

Lezley Saar, whose work Miss Pearly, The Transcontinental Mind Reader was presented in JSMA’s 2020-21 “Common Seeing” exhibition LOOK. Listen. Learn. Act., will talk about her series Anomalies, Mulatto Nation, Autist’s Fables, Madwoman in the Attic, Monad, Gender Renaissance, A Conjuring of Conjurors, and Black Garden and the various themes that deal with notions of race, gender, sanity, literature, heritage, escapism, and marginalization. More information and a registration link is available at

https://artdesign.uoregon.edu/art/events/visiting-artist-lectures