Photographer is Next Visiting Artist Program Guest at USU

Photographer Judy Natal will be on campus at Utah State University as part of the Department of Art Visiting Artist Program from Oct. 26-29. She will work with students and faculty during her stay.

 

Natal will present a public lecture Thursday, Oct. 27, at 7 p.m. in the Eccles Conference Center, room 216. She will show images and discuss her artwork. The lecture is free and open to all.

 

Natal is a professor of photography at Columbia College in Chicago. She has received numerous grants, fellowships and residencies and has conducted workshops and given lectures on her work throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Brazil. Her grants include awards from Barbara Hitchcock, Polaroid Corporation, the Illinois Arts Council and Columbia College, Chicago. Her work appears in the permanent collections of the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Ariz.; the Polaroid Collection, Cambridge, Mass.; and the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House, Rochester, N.Y.

 

Natal will spend several days at Utah State University working with students. In addition to her lecture, she will present a workshop for advanced photo students. During the workshop students will speak one-on-one with the artist and will have a chance to observe her photographic techniques. This opportunity for interaction between artists and the students is invaluable, said Marilyn Krannich, director of the Visiting Artist Program.

 

"Judy Natal is one of the most gifted, hardworking individuals I have ever encountered in photography," said Craig Law, professor of photography in USU's art department. "The visual sensitivity of the imagery she makes has subtle richness that all would thoroughly enjoy as they view her work."

 

Other guests in this year's Visiting Artist Program include ceramic artist Elisa Helland-Hansen (from Norway), who visits in February, printmakers Sean Caulfield and Akiko Taniguchi (from Alberta, Canada) in March and a yet to be named painter in April. The guests are selected for their national and international reputations, the ways in which their art reflects diversity with respect to the media used, and their varied backgrounds.

 

The Visiting Artist Program is supported by a grant from the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation. The Utah Humanities Council, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Utah Arts Council, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Arts, provides additional funding.