PhotographerWilliam Wegman Guest In Creative Life Series in February
ALBANY — Artist William Wegman, best known for his portraits of his Weimaraner dogs, will be the next guest in The Creative Life conversation series at UAlbany.
The event takes place 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 27 at the UAlbany Performing Arts Center on the uptown University at Albany campus located at 1400 Washington Ave. The event is free and open to the public.
William Wegman is a beloved American artist known throughout the world for photographs, videos and calendars that feature his Weimaraner dogs in a variety of costumes and poses. His work is held in the permanent collections of major museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art and Smithsonian American Art Museum. The author of numerous books for children, Wegman is also the creator of short segments featuring his dogs for Sesame Street. His new book is William Wegman: Writing by Artist (2022), his first collection to focus on his multifaceted and deeply funny relationship to language, spanning the early 1970s to the present.
The Creative Life series is a major arts initiative of the University Art Museum, New York State Writers Institute and UAlbany Performing Arts Center in conjunction with WAMC Northeast Public Radio.
Previous guests in The Creative Life series have included, among others, fiction writer Joyce Carol Oates, Broadway star Patti LuPone, Warhol film star Bibbe Hansen, high-wire artist Philippe Petit, art critic Lucy Sante, actress/comedian Jane Curtin and singer/guitarist Susanna Hoffs. Additional guests in the series will be announced for the spring of 2024.
More information can be obtained by contacting the UAlbany Performing Arts Center at 518-442-3995 or pac@albany.edu.