Exhibitions : Visiting Artist Program : Rickert-Ziebold

Bill Conger
October 26-27, 2006
Public Lecture - Thursday, October 26, 6 p.m.
Lawson Hall 131

Bill Conger has been Curator at University Galleries at Illinois State university in Normal, Illinois Since August 1998.  He has an MFA in Painting from Illinois State University (1993).  Selected curatorial projects include Sad Songs (2005), Slab (2003), new Angeles (2001), Pixerina Witcherina (2001), The UFO Show (2000), Growing Up (Post) Modern (1999), and OTHER-VILLE (1999).  His artwork has been included in selected exhibitions at the Tipperary Arts Center in Clonmel Ireland, Galeria Sztuki Wspolczesnej in Olsztyn, Poland, and Limner Gallery in New York as well as numerous group exhibitions around the Midwest.  He was recently included in Think Small, a two-year traveling exhibition at the Illinois State Museum Springfield Gallery (2005) and From the Forest to the Cavern at The Guest Room Project in Chicago (2006).  He also in the past year has been a visiting artist at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Link program and Brigham Young University.  His most recent curatorial publication, Sad Songs, includes an essay by poet/writer, Richard Hell. 

See more information about Bill Conger on his personal website.

An exhibition of the work of Benjamin Gardner and Bill Conger, "This Moment," will be in Vergette Gallery, November 16-20, 2006.

Contact David Linneweh for more information on Bill Conger's visit.

The School of Art & Design gratefully acknowledges the funding and sponsorship provided primarily by the SIUC student-paid Fine Arts Activity Fee, and by Harris Deller, Director, School of Art and Design; Interim Dean Alan Vaux, College of Liberal Arts; and the generosity of our community sponsors.

For more information contact the Visiting Artist Program office at 618 453-7792. There will also be visiting artists additional to this published roster. Watch for announcements and flyers throughout the 2006-07 academic year.

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