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New York, September 16, 2009—Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts has announced that artist Eve Mosher will be its Fall 2009 Visiting Artist in its Visual Arts Program. Mosher will present a public lecture on Tuesday, September 22, at 6:O0 p.m. on Collaborative Urban Interaction as Artistic Practice at The New School's Theresa Lang Student and Community Center at 55 West 13th Street. She will also teach a four-week workshop to Lang College students, entitled "Signs of Growth: Urban Food," which will result in an exhibition at The New School's Skybridge Art and Sound Space, located at 66 West 12th Street, 3rd Floor. The exhibition will be on view October 27 through November 19, with an opening reception on Tuesday, October 27 from 4-7 pm. Mosher and the students will also participate in Art in Odd Places, a citywide art festival, taking place throughout the month of October along Manhattan's 14th Street. Their project Signs of Growth + Mobile Gardens, in collaboration with artist Tattfoo Tan, will be performed on the weekend of October 16-18.
Mosher is known for her large-scale public projects that focus on the complex interactions between human and natural environments. Her latest public project, Seeding the City (http://seedingthecity.org/), utilizes social networking to introduce urban interventions in the form of green roof modules. It capitalizes on community building to introduce urban environmental issues and remediation tools. She will be discussing the “Seeding the City” project and others in both her public lecture and the workshop, where students will explore the notion of urban farming, sustainable food growth, and contemporary public art practices.
"The visiting artist program at Lang is an integral part of our arts curriculum, which gives a social and intellectual context to the art undergraduates are studying and the role collaboration plays in its creation," said Stefania deKenessey, Chair of the Arts at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts. "This program brings together not only students who are majoring in the arts, but also students from across the spectrum at Lang College, including urban and environmental studies. It is this range of perspectives that creates a truly enriching experience."
Mosher’s artistic expression is profoundly influenced by having witnessed in her childhood the growth of suburbia. “I grew up on the borders of urban sprawl, watching the daily disintegration of wild in favor of cultivation in the form of suburban developments and strip malls,” said Mosher.
Mosher's work exists outside of traditional art practices and engages the public in an active role, connecting with their urban landscape. Eve’s recent projects include HighWaterLine, which mapped the impact of global warming on the coastline of New York City. Mosher has been profiled in the New York Times, the Discovery Channel, ARTnews, L'Uomo Vogue, and Le Monde. Her public and community based artworks have received grants from the New York State Council on the Arts and New York Department of Cultural Affairs, both through the Brooklyn Arts Council, San Francisco Arts Commission, and the City Parks Foundation.
Each semester at Lang College, a distinguished artist is invited to join the Lang community by leading public programs, workshops, performances, and master classes. Previous visiting artists include Alyce Santoro, Ralph Lemon, Martha Rosler, Marni Nixon, and John Jesurun.
ABOUT EUGENE LANG COLLEGE THE NEW SCHOOL FOR LIBERAL ARTS
With a diversity of students, faculty, and academics, Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts is a seminar-style liberal arts college located in New York City that was established in 1985. Remaining consistent to its founding philosophy, Eugene Lang College grew out of a highly progressive freshman-year program developed at The New School in 1973. Lang offers intensive liberal arts study as well as a faculty committed to teaching undergraduates in an interdisciplinary context. Majors include culture and media, literary studies, the arts, philosophy, interdisciplinary science, psychology, economics, environmental studies, and philosophy. Areas of study include religious studies, urban studies, social inquiry, and education studies. For more information, visit www.lang.newschool.edu.
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