UIMA's annual Levitt Lecture will trace artist's career transition from ceramics to works on paper

March 31, 2011

University of Iowa News Release

A University of Illinois professor of ceramics and drawing who draws inspiration for his work from Tom Waits lyrics will be the guest speaker at this year's Jeanne and Richard Levitt Lectureship: American Crafts in Context. Presented by the University of Iowa Museum of Art (UIMA), Ron Kovatch's lecture will be offered at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 14, in Room W151 of the Pappajohn Business Building.

After receiving his bachelor's degree from the Kansas City Art Institute and his master's degree from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Kovatch had a long career in ceramics before reinventing himself as an artist of works on paper. In his lecture, "He's Balancing a Diamond on a Blade of Grass," Kovatch will talk about this transition. Through an overview of his works, which have been shown in more than 15 solo exhibitions and many group exhibitions, he will link the issues of creativity and its conceptual process to studio methods.

For more information on this and other events, please visit the UIMA's website, http://uima.uiowa.edu.

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