Pratt Munson College of Art and Design will feature Professor Kenneth Marchione as this year’s speaker for the Elizabeth Lemieux Faculty Lecture Series at noon Thursday, March 27, in Munson’s Sinnott Family-Bank of Utica in downtown Utica. This event is free and open to the public. 

 

Marchione’s recent work focuses on observations made while on sabbatical in Europe and the idea of public art and the concept of who or what is a “witness.”

 

“As an artist, I am perpetually reminded of my role as an observer and my role to interpret what I see or think,” Marchione said. “I reflect on these architectural sculptures, and murals in some instances, as our constant witnesses, and because I often know who or what they represent, I have a sense of how they see or judge me. At the same time, I cannot disregard the anonymous witness behind the cameras perched around various porticoes that are blank pages allowing others to write the narrative.”

 

Marchione is a professor of drawing and painting and chair of Academic Affairs at Pratt Munson College of Art and Design. He has been a working artist for 40 years, lives in the Utica, N.Y., region, and exhibits his work throughout the northeast. He grew up in Massillon, Ohio, and attended the Cleveland Institute of Art, earning his BFA. Marchione later attended Yale University to earn his MFA. Prior to working at Pratt Munson, he served as director of art for the Stamford Museum in Stamford, Conn.

 

Pratt Munson faculty are masters of their craft and practicing artists. One way faculty artists’ achievements are highlighted is the annual Elizabeth Lemieux Faculty Lecture, given by a select member of the faculty to present their work in the field and creative research to students and the general public. The lecture is named for its donor, who established the fund in 2013.

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