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<p style="float:right; font-weight:bold; margin-bottom: 75px; font-size: 120%; text-align:right;">CONTACT: Sarah Dresser
<br />City of Columbia Office of Cultural Affairs
<br />573-874-6387
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<br />Alex Barker
<br />MU Museum of Art & Archaeology
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<br />Mike Sleadd
<br />Columbia College Department of Visual Arts & Music
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<br />Ann Mehr
<br />Lee Expressive Arts Elementary School
<br />573-214-3530</p>
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<div style="font-size: 110%; line-height:200%;"><h3 style="clear:both; margin-top: 75px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 170%;">Noted contemporary artist Willie Cole visits Columbia this week</h3>
<div class="content"><span style="padding-left: 50px;">(COLUMBIA, MO)</span> - <p style="display:inline;">Noted contemporary artist Willie Cole will visit Columbia this week to give a public lecture and work with students at Lee Expressive Arts Elementary School. Cole will also meet and work with students from the University of Missouri and Columbia College.</p>
<p>Part of the Museum of Art & Archaeology's Museum Lecture Series, Cole will deliver a lecture, titled "Transformer," on Tuesday, Feb. 21 at 5:30 p.m. in Leadership Auditorium, on the second floor of the MU Student Center. The lecture is free and open to the public.</p>
<p>Cole's work examines both African-American history and American consumerism, combining discarded appliances and everyday objects into complex metaphorical assemblages; he is probably best know for his use of irons, iron scorch marks and ironing board to simultaneously reference scarification, slave ships, African art and consumer culture. Cole has received many awards, including the 2006 David C. Driskell Prize, the first national award to recognize and honor contributions in African American art and history. His works hang in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art and others. MU's Museum of Art & Archaeology has six of Cole's artworks in its permanent collection.</p>
<p>On Wednesday, Feb. 22, Cole will spend the day working with students in all grade levels at Lee Expressive Arts Elementary School. Cole is this year's all-school artist of study at Lee. During his visit, Cole will work with the students to create a sculpture made entirely of recycled materials. The collaborative sculpture will be installed at Columbia City Hall on Thursday morning, on view through April.</p>
<p>Cole's visit is sponsored by MU's Museum of Art & Archaeology, MU Lectures Committee, and MU Departments of Art, Art History and Archaeology; Columbia College's Department of Visual Arts and Music; Lee Expressive Arts Elementary School; and the City of Columbia's Office of Cultural Affairs.</p></div>
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