5:30 p.m.
The Lincoln Center is happy to host an Artist Talk with Kristy Deetz in The Lincoln Centers Columbine Room at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, January 16. Kristy will talk about the artistic process she uses to create her hyper-realistic paintings and discuss how she hopes her artwork inspires viewers to consider how life might adapt, what role humans may play, and how creativity can spark new ways of thinking about our future environment. Her talk will come before the Artist’s reception in the art gallery that starts at 6:30 p.m.
Artists
Kristy Deetz
Kristy Deetz is emerita professor at the University of Wisconsin—Green Bay (UWGB). She has exhibited extensively at national and international venues. As curator, Kristy has organized exhibitions that have traveled to art museums, university art galleries, and art centers. She frequently serves as a visiting artist and has led numerous painting/drawing workshops at venues including Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME; Ox-Bow School of Art, Saugatuck, MI; Penland School of Craft, Bakersville, NC; Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO; and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN. UWGB awarded her the 2011 Founders Award for Excellence in Scholarship. She received SECAC (formerly Southeastern College Art Conference)’s 2016 Award for Excellence in Teaching and a 2015 Silver Award from Graphis Design Annual, New York. Her paintings have been featured in Encaustic Art in the Twenty-First Century by Ashley Rooney and Anne Lee (Shiffer Craft, 2016), Encaustic Art—The Complete Guide to Creating Fine Art with Wax by Lissa Rankin M.D. (Watson-Guptill, 2010), and Dynamic Color Painting for the Beginner by Diane Edison (Abrams, 2008). An Erasmus Visiting Lecturer at the University of Kassel, Germany, Kristy has also been Artist-in-Residence at The Burren College of Art in County Clare, Ireland and recently at Baer Art Center in Hofsós, Iceland.