Two Atlanta artists to visit art department March 1-2

The USC Department of Art will host two prominent artists from Atanta March 1 and 2.

Susan Cofer and Kathy King will speak and exhibit their work at McMaster during their visit.

Cofer, well known for her sensitive and enigmatic organic form drawings, lives and works in Atlanta.

"My art doesn't have a political or social agenda. Rather, I feel it comes from a spiritual place," she said. Her drawings have been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the U.S., including the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington D.C., the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and the prestigious Heath Gallery in Atlanta. Her work is in the permanent collections of the High Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, and private collections around the country and abroad.

King, an assistant professor in ceramics at Georgia State University, creates drawn or carved forms that force the viewer to reflect on culture, ritual, and their own mortality. She received her MFA from the University of Florida. She has exhibited nationally and internationally at such venues as SPACE Lab, Cleveland, OH; Erie Art Museum in Erie, PA; World Ceramics Exposition, Seoul, Korea; Odyssey Gallery, Asheville, NC; and Blue Spiral Gallery, Asheville, NC.

Cofer's schedule while at USC includes:

• March 1, 4 p.m., lecture hosted by MFA Graduate Seminar, Room 329, McMaster College. Free and open to the public. Reception to immediately follow at 5:30 p.m.
• March 2, 9 a.m.-11 p.m., meet one on one with the graduate students. MA or MFA students can sign up on a first-come, first-serve basis with Dawn Hunter, Room 243, McMaster College.
• March 2, 1-2 p.m., meet in student gallery for informal dialogue with Cofer and King.

King's schedule while at USC includes:

• March 1, 10 a.m.-noon, Hands on Workshop, Part I, located ceramics. All students are welcomed to sign up on a first- come, first-serve basis.
• March 1, noon-1 p.m., Potluck, in ceramics
• March 1, 2 p.m.-4 p..m. Hands on Workshop, Part II
• March 2, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., meet one on one with the graduate students. MA or MFA students can sign up on a first come first serve basis with Hunter, Room 243, McMaster College.
• March 2, 1-2 p.m., meet in student gallery for informal dialogue with King and Cofer. Artists respond to ceramic student work on exhibit.
• March 2, 3:30-5 p.m., slide lecture of personal work. Free and open to the public. Room 239, McMaster College.
• March 2, 5-7 p.m., opening reception for "To Reproduce or not to Reproduce" exhibit, work by Kathy King.

The USC Department of Art is located in McMaster College, 1615 Senate Street.

For more information about these events, contact Dawn Hunter, assistant professor and foundations coordinator, by phone at 7-0087 or by e-mail at dawnhunterphelps@yahoo.com.

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