Iowa Printmaker is Visiting Artist Nov. 6 to 9

Date: 10/27/06
Contact: Marc Lebovitz

Robert Glasgow, a veteran printmaker and educator from the University of Iowa, will be a visiting artist in the printmaking program at Illinois State University's School of Art from Nov. 6 to 9. He will present a free lecture on his work at 3:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 6, in room 149 of the Center for the Visual Arts.

Glasgow will be in the printmaking studios in the CVA working on a suite of monoprints that involve lithography, intaglio and woodcut. He will be working with printmaking faculty Jim Butler, Richard Finch and Sarah Smelser. Glasgow will print on paper that he made himself, and use the help of printmaking students to execute his work.

An active artist and dynamic teacher, Glasgow received his BFA degree from Wittenburg University and his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His work has been shown in over 150 individual and group exhibitions and is included in 50 public and corporate collections.

Glasgow's interests in print media encompass traditional, photomechanical and digital applications and result in both editioned and unique works, with a special focus on a grey area of activity in between - serial monoprinting. He has been at Iowa since since 1985, after teaching at Bradley University.

Anyone interested in observing Glasgow at work with Butler, Finch and Smelser can visit rooms 123 and 127 in the Center for the Visual Arts during the day through Nov. 9.