Presidential Arts Program: This year's program is called "Regarding Identity: Conversations with Two Artists, James Casebere & Lorna Simpson".

Last year, Lorna Simpson’s career was the subject of a 20-year retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art. James Casebere’s works have been shown at the New York Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, to name a few.

In addition to the two being our neighbors, their work adds immensely to our investigation of identity. Simpson’s art practice has consistently examined the unseen forces that guide our reasoning around race, gender, identity and culture, challenging viewers’ perceptions of these subjects. The focus of Casebere’s art is to examine institutional spaces and to bring into focus their relationships to social control and societal structures.

Please plan to join us to hear these world-renowned artists speak on our campus. This series is presented by the Council for the Arts and the Office of Co-Curricular Programs.