Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Visiting Artist Lecture: Marie Lorenz
New York-based artist Marie Lorenz will deliver the Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Visiting Artist Lecture. Her work is rooted in the exploration and narrative of New York City’s waterfronts. Combining psycho-geographic exploration with highly crafted, material forms, Lorenz uses boats to create an uncertain space and bring about a heightened awareness of place. In 2005, she started her Tide and Current Taxi project, taking people around the New York Harbor in a boat built from salvaged materials, using the tide to guide her navigation. Solo exhibitions include Waterways, at the Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery at Bennington College (Bennington, Vt.); Tide and Current Taxi, at the Rib Gallery (Rotterdam, Netherlands); and Graybelt, a multimedia project funded by the Bridging Barriers research initiative, at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the recipient of many awards and residencies, including the Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. Lorenz earned an MFA from Yale.
This lecture is also part of the NCAA 50th annual conference hosted by WashU’s Sam Fox School.
Upcoming Public Lectures
Nov 18 at 5:30pm • Steinberg Auditorium
Anda French, AIA, and Jenny French | Eugene J. Mackey Jr. Lecture
Anda French, AIA, and Jenny French, partners of Boston-based French 2D, will deliver the 2024 Eugene J. Mackey Jr. Lecture as part of the Sam Fox School’s Public Lecture Series at WashU.
French 2D is an award-winning Boston studio founded by Jenny French and Anda French, AIA. Their work centers collaboration across multiple scales, from participatory events/installations to urban-scale textiles and buildings for collective living.
French 2D was internationally recognized as a 2023 Finalist for the Architectural Review’s Emerging Award. The firm received a 2020 P/A (Progressive Architecture) Award from Architect Magazine, and a Design Vanguard award from Architectural Record, and has been featured in Domus, Metropolis, The Architect’s Newspaper, and in the solo show “House Clothes” at UMASS Amherst. Anda is a visiting lecturer at the Princeton School of Architecture. Jenny is an assistant professor in the practice of architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.