On Tuesday, April 3, Arthur Ganson will deliver the Malloy Lecture, presented by the Skidmore Art Department. The event will be held in Filene Recital Hall at 6:00 PM.

Arthur Ganson thinks of himself as “a cross between a mechanical engineer and a choreographer.” He is interested in “gestures” — physical actions that express feelings and ideas. Ganson’s exquisitely designed kinetic sculptures have been exhibited in galleries and museums across the United States and Europe. He has held residencies at the Exploratorium in San Francisco and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and has maintained an ongoing exhibition of his work at the MIT Museum since 1995. Besides making and exhibiting sculpture, he occasionally teaches classes in mechanics and wire bending. For the past 18 years he has been the ringleader of the MIT Museum’s Friday After Thanksgiving Chain Reaction, a community event in which families and students of all ages assemble a giant chain reaction.

About the Malloy Lecture Series

Artist Susan Rabinowitz Malloy earned a B.S. in art from Skidmore in 1945. In 1991 Malloy endowed Skidmore Art Department’s Malloy Visiting Artist Lecture series, which annually brings to campus distinguished contemporary artists of international stature.