Visiting Artist Lecture: Mark Dorf

Oct. 19 at 4:30 p.m. in the Fine Arts Auditorium (FA 5062)

Mark Dorf is a New York based artist whose creative practice employs a mixture of photography, digital media, and sculpture. In his most recent work, Dorf explores society’s perceptions of and interactions with the digital domain, urban and architectural environments, and the “Natural Landscape”. With an interest in technology and science, he scrutinizes and examines the influence of the information age in order to understand our curious habitation of the 21st century world.

Dorf has exhibited internationally at Postmasters Gallery, New York, 2017, 2015; Galerie Philine Cremer, Dusseldorf, DE, 2016; Division Gallery, Toronto, 2015; Outlet Gallery, Brooklyn, 2015; The Lima Museum of Contemporary Art, Lima, 2014; Mobile World Centre, Barcelona, 2014; Harbor Gallery, New York, 2014; SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, 2013; and Phoenix Gallery, New York, 2012. Dorf’s work is included in the Fidelity Investments Collection, the Deutsche Bank Collection, and the permanent collection of the Savannah College of Art and Design.

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Mellon Foundation awards $1.5 million grant to WSU’s Mukurtu platform

April 19, 2024

The grant will help sustain the digital platform that helps Indigenous communities manage and protect their cultural and linguistic heritage, intellectual property, and traditional knowledge.

By Nella Letizia, WSU Libraries