Seattle-based artist Ellen Ziegler will present a lecture titled “Chemistry is the Emotion of Matter” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 23, in Popplewell Hall room 204 on the campus of Missouri Western State University. Ziegler’s talk is free and open to the public.
“I source the immaterial through the material,” Ziegler says. “My practice includes drawing, sculpture, assemblage, and artist’s books. I work with mirrored glass, tar paper, cyanotype, and draw with an electrode on a copper table. These arcane materials, with their sometimes unpredictable outcome, allow for accident and serendipity as well as ongoing refinement of technique: chemistry is the emotion of matter.”
Ziegler’s work has been displayed nationally and internationally, including a solo exhibition titled “Work in progress” at the Kansas City Art Institute in 2013. Samples of her work can be found at www.ellenziegler.com.
Ziegler’s lecture is sponsored by the Department of Art, the School of Fine Arts, and the Missouri Western State University Foundation.
Missouri Western State University is a comprehensive regional university providing a blend of traditional liberal arts and professional degree programs. The university offers student-centered, high quality instruction that focuses on experience-based learning, community service, and state-of-the-art technology. Missouri Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit www.missouriwestern.edu.