Gallery Talk with Mark Ruschmanfor the Jerald Jacquard: 3D Daydreaming Exhibition

Wednesday, Sept. 24 at 5 p.m.
Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center 115
L/P Credit Available
No registration required – seating is first come, first served.

Join the Department of Art & Design for this semester’s Art & Design Lecture Series! Each series is dedicated to the life and work of a different artist. This lecture is led by Mark Ruschman who is speaking on the work of Jerald Jacquard.

About Jerald Jacquard

Jerald Jacquard was born in 1937 in Lansing Michigan and received both his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Michigan State University. Jacquard had a distinguished career for close to sixty years, with seven museum retrospective exhibitions, eleven solo museum exhibitions and twelve public sculptures in high profile outdoor sculpture parks. Prestigious awards during his lifetime include a Fulbright Scholarship to study bronze casting in Florence Italy in 1963, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1974, and many other prestigious awards including a National Endowment for the Arts Grant in 1980, and a Lilly Research Fellowship in 1981.

His work is in numerous museum and private collections, including the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis, MO, The Tucson Museum of Art, and the Indiana University Eskenazi Museum of Art. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries across the country, including the Tucson Museum of Art, the Kalamazoo Institute of Art, and the Grand Rapids Art Museum among many others.