Guest Artist Andrew Raftery to Lecture at SCC on March 31

Published: 02/28/2010

Raftery’s morning lecture and evening gallery talk are part of SCC’s Printmaking Invitational

The 7:15 p.m. gallery talk will take place during the 6-8 p.m. reception for the artists in SCC’s Printmaking Invitational Art Exhibition and will include Raftery and the other participating artists. The exhibition, titled “New Perspectives,” will feature artwork from seven printmakers who challenge the parameters of their medium. Artists participating in the exhibition are Gina Alvarez, Cameron Fuller, Angela Malchionno, Roxanne Phillips, Travis Russell, Amy Thompson and Amanda Verbeck. The exhibition is free and open to the public and will be on display March 8-April 8. Gallery hours are 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. on Fridays, and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on Saturdays.  

Raftery’s work is included in numerous public collections, including the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. His work also has been included in many exhibitions, including the “183rd Annual Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art” at the National Academy of Design Museum in New York in 2008; the New Prints/Fall 2007 International Print Center in New York; the 2006 “Drawn Exposed & Impressed: Recent Works on Paper from the Cleveland Museum of Art,” Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, in Cleveland, Ohio and the 2006 Invitational Exhibition for the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York.

Raftery currently teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design in the Department of Printmaking and has lectured to groups at Wellesley College, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Carnegie Mellon University. He has a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Yale University School of Art and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Boston University College of Fine Arts, and is the recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, the Boston University Distinguished Alumni Award and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award.

St. Charles Community College is a public, comprehensive two-year community college with associate degrees and certificate programs in the arts, business, sciences, and career-technical fields. SCC provides workforce training and community-based personal and professional development as well as cultural, recreational, and entertainment opportunities. For more information, visit www.stchas.edu.