Join us Wednesday, April 9, at 6 pm, for the Studio Art Department’s annual Raab Lecture, this year delivered by artist Mark Newport. Newport uses textiles, performance, print, and photography to reveal the vulnerability inherent in traditional western ideals of masculinity.

The Raab Visiting Artist Lecture is sponsored by Rosanne Brody Raab ’55 and the Skidmore Department of Studio Art.

This event is free and open to the public.

About Mark Newport

Mark Newport’s work was included in the prestigious Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art 2019, China; the 2019 Rijswijk Textile Biennial, The Netherlands; as well as in group exhibitions at the Textile Museum of Canada, The Mint Museum, and The Museum of Arts and Design. He has had solo exhibitions at The Arizona State University Art Museum, The Cranbrook Art Museum, and The Chicago Cultural Center. Newport was included in the American Craft Council’s College of Fellows in 2024. His work has been recognized with a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation fellowship, a 2011 Artist Fellowship from the Kresge Foundation, and a 2005 Creative Capital Foundation grant. His work is in several museum collections including The Whitney Museum of American Art; The Renwick Gallery; The St. Louis Art Museum, The Racine Art Museum. Materia in Detroit and Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle represent his work.