MFA Open House and Talk by New York Artist Steve Lambert

[Tara L Cooper]

The Department of Fine Arts is kicking off 2017 with bang. Please join us this Thursday for the following:

Artist Talk with Steve Lambert
The University of Waterloo Fine Arts
Thursday, January 5, 2017
Talk: 7:30-8:30, Room 1219

This event is preceded by our annual:
MFA Open House
Time: 4:30-7:30, Room 1237
Place: University of Waterloo, East Campus Hall
Address: 263 Phillip Street, Waterloo, Ontario

Participating Students:<https://uwaterloo.ca/fine-arts/current-graduate-students> Alexis Hildreth, Jess Lincoln, Aaron Maclean, Tess Martens, Eryn O’Neill, Denise St Marie, Timothy Walker, and Tait Wilman.


About Steve:

Lambert<http://visitsteve.com/bio/> made international news after the 2008 US election with The New York Times “Special Edition,”<http://visitsteve.com/made/the-ny-times-special-edition/> a replica of the “paper of record” announcing the end of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and other good news. In the summer of 2011, he began a national tour of Capitalism Works For Me! True/False – a 9 x 20 ft. sign allowing people to vote on whether capitalism worked for them. He has collaborated with groups from the Yes Men to the Graffiti Research Lab and Greenpeace. He is also the founder of the Center for Artistic Activism,<https://artisticactivism.org/> the Anti-Advertising Agency, Add-Art (a Firefox add-on that replaces online advertising with art) and SelfControl<https://selfcontrolapp.com/> (which blocks grownups from distracting websites so they can get work done).

For more information contact tlcooper at uwaterloo.ca

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Tara Cooper
Assistant Professor
Associate Chair of Graduate Studies
Department of Fine Arts

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