Presently a professor of art at the University of Ulster at Belfast, MacLennan studied at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee, Scotland and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Hilary Robinson , an English critic and art historian now living and working in Belfast, will address the aspects of context and meaning in the work of contemporary artists in Ireland. Robinson has written extensively on sexuality, body-image and feminist art, including articles published in Alba, Feminist Review and Circa. Home to an internationally significant public art movement, Belfast has numerous partisan murals that undergo continual development to address topical issues. The documentation will include slides, sketches and photographs.
Admission is free to all lectures.
Support for this exhibition is provided by the Instructionally Related Student Activities Fund, Irish Arts Foundation of San Francisco, and The British Council through its Northern Ireland Program. Several events are planned to celebrate the anniversary, including presentations by industry leaders, the department's alums and other broadcasting professionals. Considered one of the outstanding programs in electronic communications in the US, BECA's curriculum continues to adapt to meet the needs of this dynamic medium. In recent years the department has introduced new courses in several areas, including digital audio production, desktop video production, multimedia design and new communication technologies. In the best tradition of college radio, the format at KSFS 100.7, the student-run cablecast radio station at SFSU, is avowedly experimental.