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Warren Lehrer is a designer, writer, and multimedia artist known internationally as a “pioneer of visual literature and design authorship.” His interdisciplinary practice fuses writing and typography and attempts to capture the shape of thought and speech, and reunite oral and pictorial traditions of storytelling in books, animations, installations, and performance. His solo and collaborative books and multimedia projects explore the vagaries and luminescence of character, the relationships between social structures and the individual, and the pathos and absurdity of life. Honors include the Ladislav Sutnar Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Design, Center for Book Arts Honoree, the Brendan Gill Prize, a Special Recognition Award from the Society of Typographic Arts, the International Book Award for Best New Fiction, the IPPY Outstanding Book of the Year Award, three AIGA Book Awards, two Type Directors Club awards, two Design Incubation Awards, the Innovative Use of Archives Award, a Media That Matters Award; Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts; and grants from the Rockefeller, Ford, Greenwall, and Furthermore Foundations. His books are in many collections including MoMA, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Getty Museum, Walker Arts Center, Georges Pompidou Centre, and Tate Gallery. The author of fourteen books, Lehrer is also a performer and has co-written four plays and one opera. He is a frequent lecturer, keynote speaker, performer and presenter at universities, conferences, art and literary centers, and bookstores throughout the US and internationally. Lehrer is a founding faculty member of the Designer As Author/Entrepreneur MFA program at the School of Visual Arts (SVA), Distinguished Professor Emeritus at SUNY Purchase, and co-founder of EarSay, a non-profit arts organization in Queens, New York.Fall 2024 Visiting Artist Colloquium
Wednesdays @ 5 – 6:15pm
Elvehjem L160
Online at Zoom:
uwmadison.zoom.us/my/artcolloquium
The Art Department Colloquium is a series supported by the Anonymous Fund and the Brittingham Trust. Visiting Artist lectures are held every Wednesday during the academic year, and are free and open to the public.
Discover the latest developments in Fine art, Craft, and Design at our free public lectures by some of the nation’s most prominent artists, critics, and gallery and museum directors.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, 408 N Lake St, Madison, WI 53706, United States,Madison, Wisconsin
