Speaker
Helen Lee
Associate Professor of Glass and Faculty Director of The Studio at UW–Madison
Helen Lee, M.F.A., is an artist, designer and educator. She earned her M.F.A. in glass from the Rhode Island School of Design and a bachelor of science in art and design in architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her work is in the collections of the Minnesota Museum of American Art, the Corning Museum of Glass, the Chrysler Museum Glass Studio and the Toyama City Institute of Glass Art. Her work has been shown in New Glass Now at Corning Museum of Glass and the Burke Prize 2019 exhibition at the Museum of Art and Design. Lee has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, California College of Art, Pilchuck Glass School, Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Ox-Bow School of Art, China Academy of Art, Toyama City Institute of Glass Art and the MIT Glass Lab. She is an associate professor and head of glass in the Art Department and faculty director of The Studio, a residential learning community that houses more than 60 student residents from all majors in a co-ed living environment.
Speaking in
Activism and the Arts: Building Legacies in Wisconsin and Beyond
Prof. Chris Walker, director of the Division of the Arts and founding artistic director of the First Wave Hip Hop and Urban Arts Scholarship Program, will moderate a panel discussion featuring a diverse array of Madison-area artists and members of the UW–Madison faculty and staff who work in and across genres, media and programs.
Co-sponsored by the UW–Madison Division of the Arts.