LITERATURE + LECTURES

Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts presents an Artist Talk with Deborah Stratman, Friday, April 29, 2011, 7:00- 8:00pm, University of Houston, Dudley Recital Hall, room 132.

Deborah Stratman is a Chicago-based artist and filmmaker interested in landscapes and systems. Her films, rather than telling stories, pose a series of problems - and through their at times ambiguous nature, allow for a complicated reading of the questions being asked. She has exhibited internationally at venues including the Whitney Biennial, MoMA, the Pompidou, Hammer Museum and many international film festivals including Sundance, the Viennale, Ann Arbor and Rotterdam. She is the recipient of Fulbright and Guggenheim fellowships and she currently teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Stratman is an Artist in Residence at the University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts this Spring and is the Guest Curator of the Tex Hex: Pop Up Cinema event that will be held along the Buffalo Bayou on May 21 in conjunction with the Buffalo Bayou Partnership.

About the Mitchell Center:
The University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts cultivates interdisciplinary collaboration in the performing, visual and literary arts. From its base at the University of Houston, the Mitchell Center offers public events, residencies and courses that fuse artistic disciplines, ignite dialogue and present new ways of experiencing the arts in contemporary life. The Mitchell Center forms an alliance among five units at the University of Houston: The School of Art, Creative Writing Program, Moores School of Music, School of Theatre and Dance, and Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston. For general inquiries, please call 713.743.5548, or visit the Mitchell Center online at www.mitchellcenterforarts.org.

Photo: Czech surveillance horns.