Mark Newport Lecture

Mark Newport Lecture

PICA is proud to support the PSU MFA Monday Night Lecture Series. There will be free public artist lectures almost every Monday night of the school year. So get yourself there! And pass the info along!

Mark Newport's visual art work, usually based in objects, has been exhibited widely at galleries in Seattle, Las Vegas, Albuquerque, Pittsburgh, New Orleans, and New York. Internationally he has shown at the Mitterand Gallery in Geneva. Newport has been awarded working residencies at Yaddo and Western Washington University in Bellingham. He is an Associate Professor of Art at Arizona State University in Tempe. He received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1991

The PSU MFA Monday Night Lecture Series is funded in part by PICA, Reed College, PNCA, Lewis and Clark College, and The Affair At The Jupiter

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"For centuries, knitting has been associated with the feminine -- from medieval portraits of the Virgin Mary beatifically purling to Grandma’s treasured knit afghans. Arizona artist Mark Newport, however, views knitting and related domestic textile arts in quite a different way. For him, they are symbols for understanding masculinity and brute strength -- and the unlikely means by which he is able to create the iconic wardrobes of the superhero." - John D. Spiak