Aaron Hughes speaker thursday

Hello faculty,

Just a reminder, the Aaron Hughes lecture is tomorrow (thursday) at 12:15 in Alfond Auditorium in the MFA.

Please encourage your students to attend. Aaron is a very smart, powerful speaker and a young artist students may be able to relate to. I've talked to some of you who have students who are vets. Aaron requested that we reach out to any students vets as he would like to work with them.

It's free and open to the public, but students do need to grab a free ticket at the Fenway entrance on their way in.

Thank you so much,

Steve

Text and Image Arts welcomes:

Aaron Hughes

Aaron Hughes is an artist, Iraq War veteran, and lead organizer with Iraq Veterans Against The War.

Aaron is available to meet with students and do a workshop during his visit. He asked us to specifically welcome any students who may be veterans or family of veterans. If you are interested, please email steve.lambert@smfa.edu

Aaron Hughes served in the Illinois Army National Guard from 2000 to 2006 and was deployed for fifteen months to "Operation Iraqi Freedom" in 2003/2004 with the 1244th Transportation Company from North Riverside, IL. On his return he began to use art as a tool to confront issues of dehumanization, militarism, and occupation. In 2009 he received an MFA in Art Theory and Practice from Northwestern University. Today Aaron is the curator and chair of the Art Committee at the National Veterans Art Museum and Organizing Team Leader for Iraq Veterans Against the War, where he has worked on such projects as Warrior Writers, Combat Paper, Drawing For Peace, Operation First Casualty, Winter Soldier, the Demilitarized University, and Operation Recovery.

Thursday, December 1, 2011
12:15 pm - 2:00 pm
Alfond Auditorium, G36

tickets are limited and available at the Fenway entrance the day of the event