Contact: John Natale at 617-373-2802

What: Northeastern’s Department of Visual Arts will host artist Pam Longobardi as a guest speaker for the University’s second annual visiting-artist lecture series. Longobardi employs several genres, including painting, photography, and installations, and her work is known for addressing the psychological relationship between humans and the natural world.

When: Tuesday, March 13 at 6:00 p.m.

Where: Northeastern’s Shillman Hall, located on 115 Forsyth Street.

About the Artist: Since 1990, Pam Longobardi has had over 25 solo exhibitions and 65 group exhibitions in galleries and museums in the United States, Italy, Spain, Finland, Poland, and Japan. Her paintings are included in corporate and private collections across the nation, and she has been commissioned to create works for Benziger Winery, the Hyatt Corporation, the Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport, and the First Tennessee Bank in Memphis. Her 1993 installation entitled “1614-1914 (A Disappearance of Wings)” was included in the 2004 exhibition Birdspace, shown at the New Orleans Contemporary Art Center, the Norton Museum of Art, and the Hudson River Museum. Her large-scale digital photographs were featured in “Skin: Contemporary Views of the Body” at the Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art where she had a solo exhibition of paintings in 2004. Awards include residency fellowships at the Franz Masereel Center in Belgium and Red Cinder in Hawaii

This event is free of charge. For more information, please contact Judy Ulman at j.ulman@neu.edu.

About Northeastern: Founded in 1898, Northeastern University is a private research university located in the heart of Boston. Northeastern is a leader in interdisciplinary research, urban engagement, and the integration of classroom learning with real-world experience. The university’s distinctive cooperative education program, where students alternate semesters of full-time study with semesters of paid work in fields relevant to their professional interests and major, is one of the largest and most innovative in the world. The University offers a comprehensive range of undergraduate and graduate programs leading to degrees through the doctorate in six undergraduate colleges, eight graduate schools, and two part-time divisions. For more information, please visit www.northeastern.edu.