Matthew Mazzotta, an artist who has won recent acclaim for using innovative art and architecture projects to transform public spaces, will give this year鈥檚 Frederic Lindley Morgan Lecture Dec. 10 in the University of Louisville鈥檚 Schneider Hall Galleries.
In 2013, worked with the Coleman Center for the Arts in York, Alabama, on transforming a derelict property into an open-air theater. Using materials from an abandoned home, Mazzotta collaborated with locals to build 鈥,鈥 which morphs from a cottage home into a 100-seat theater when its roof and walls fold down.听The project drew widespread interest and won a number of awards in the design, art and architecture worlds.
Mazzotta, who holds a master鈥檚 in visual studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the second recipient of the 听offered by the听听in San Francisco, where he is currently an artist-in-residence. He鈥檚 started a new project,听, in which he will lead the creation of public artworks in four rural communities in Nebraska. He鈥檚 collaborated with a number of communities throughout the country in public art projects, saying his work 鈥渋s about reversing the top-down, one-way exchange of ideas and allowing people to contribute in a more tangible way to their own environment.鈥听
His lecture, 鈥淎rchitecture of Social Space: Opening Spaces of Critique within the Places We Live鈥 will be at 12:30 p.m. in Schneider Hall鈥檚 Gallery X. It is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Benjamin Hufbauer, associate professor of fine arts, at bghufb01@louisville.edu or 502-852-0442.
