Missouri State’s art history program will be teaming up with the Springfield-Greene County Library System to highlight the research of its student in the upcoming First Friday Art Talks program.

What are First Friday Art Talks?

The public presentations will feature research by advanced art history students and alumni from area colleges and universities. MSU students will present at the December 2015 and February 2016 talks.

Each 30-minute talk will take place at the Park Central Branch Library at 6 p.m. on the first Friday of the month, with a question-and-answer period afterward.

2015-2016 schedule

Dec. 4, 2015

“Cindy Sherman’s Cindy Doll: Stop-Motion Film and Female Identity”
Jessica Ball (Honors College, art major, art history minor, Missouri State University)

Jan. 1, 2016

(no talk scheduled yet)

Feb. 5, 2016

“Art Rejecting Authority: Anatoly Zverev and Russian Expressionism in the USSR”
Nick Deckard (Art History major, Missouri State University)

March 4, 2016

“Portraits of Madness: Photography of Abandoned American Asylums”
Julia Hartman (Architecture and Art History, Drury University)

April 1, 2016

(no talk scheduled yet)

May 6, 2016

“From Where You Are: Banksy, Jenkins, and Wodiczko’s Use of Identity and Place in Contemporary Art”
Ghada El Haffar (Art History, Multimedia Production, Journalism major, Drury University)