Associate Professor of Art Craig Hill will give the first Mesaros Visiting Artist Lecture of the year with painter/printmaker Duane Slick.
Born in Waterloo, Iowa, Duane Slick earned his BFA from the University of Northern Iowa and his MFA from the University of California, Davis. He began teaching painting and printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1995 and has also lectured at colleges and universities across the U.S. and taught at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe.
Slick's work has been exhibited widely — recently in the spring of 2022 at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut, titled "The Coyote Makes the Sunset Better” organized by the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis and “Stretching the Canvas: Eight Decades Of Native Painting at the National Museum of the American Indian. His work is included in collections at Forge Project, The Horseman Foundation, The Tia Collection, the Des Moines Art Center and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston among many others. Titles for his most recent shows are "There are No Endings" in Santa Fe and "An Utterance and its Echo" in Provincetown, Massachusetts.