This spring the University of Minnesota Morris will welcome Mara Adamitz Scrupe as its Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Liberal Arts.
Scrupe serves as dean and professor emerita, University of the Arts, Philadelphia in addition to writing poetry and essays, making artist books, drawings, environmental public art installations and documentary films, and she teaches and lectures in creative writing and the visual arts.
Scrupe will read from her new book Reap: a flora on Tuesday, Feb. 6 at 7 p.m. in the Briggs Library basement. The lecture is open to all and will be followed by a question and answer session. The lecture will also be available via Zoom: https://z.umn.edu/DVPLALecture.
Additionally, Scrupe will deliver two public lectures as well as participate in other campus events including classroom visits and discussions. She also has plans for a series of book-making workshops on select Saturdays throughout the spring semester.
ABOUT SCRUPE
Mara Adamitz Scrupe is an interdisciplinary artist, an award winning poet and a published writer, essayist and critic on topics in the contemporary visual arts. She has had extensive international exhibitions of her site installations, projects about place, and artist books, and she has received national and international recognition for her art installations, performances, interventions, drawings, and artist-made books and projects about place. In past projects designed for exhibition in museums, galleries and public spaces, Mara Adamitz Scrupe has engaged interdisciplinary research strategies to explore plant science and biodiversity, seed saving and preservation of native plant species.
She has been the recipient of many grants, awards, and artist fellowships including the District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities Individual Artist Fellowship, Washington, DC; The Sirius Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland; The National Endowment for the Arts/CEC International Partners/ArtsLink Collaborative Grant; The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Artists Work Programme Fellowship, Dublin, Ireland; the Kulturhuset USF International Artist Residency Grant, Bergen, Norway; the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation Professional Artist Fellowship; the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Collaborative Residency Grant; the Virginia Commission for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship, and the Artists Space Grant, New York, NY.
ABOUT THE DISTINGUISHED VISITING PROFESSORSHIP
The University of Minnesota Morris Distinguished Visiting Professorship in the Liberal Arts was established through the generous support of a private donor.