[Peace-discuss] This Sunday, a talk with Nicolas Lampert

[Jason Pitzl-Waters]

:::please forward to any interested parties:::

This Sunday, January 19th at 12pm, join us for a special talk and 
presentation by artist, activist, and Drawing Resistance co-founder Nicolas 
Lampert.

Nicolas Lampert is one of the co-organizers of the Drawing Resistance art 
show. He views the Drawing Resistance show as a valuable resource for 
artists and activists to find each other throughout North America and help 
build a community of resistance culture. While living in Oakland, 
California, he helped set up shows from 1995-1999 at the 40th St. 
Warehouse. An underground space that has provided community based art, 
film, music, theater and puppet shows on a monthly basis since 1995.

Primarily, Nicolas Lampert is known for his collage art. He began working 
with the collage medium in 1991 and has shown locally and internationally 
in art spaces, political magazines (Z magazine, Food and Water, Black 
Thorn, What If? A Journal of Radical Possibilities, Rethinking 
Globalization), record covers and various slide show tours. Examples of his 
art can be found at www.machineanimalcollages.com

Musically, he plays guitar in the experimental-noise band, Beneath the Lake 
which has a debut release of "The Inside Passage" on the Seattle 
independent label, Glass Throat Recordings www.crionicmind.org/gtr . From 
1995-1999, he played guitar in the Oakland based experimental noise/punk 
band, Noisegate. Recordings by Noisegate can be found on the San Francisco 
independent label, Tumult. www.tumult.net . His experiences touring the 
United States and Canada in the D.I.Y. underground music scene helped to 
develop the idea of a traveling art show.

Outside of the art studio, he teaches art history classes on "Contemporary 
Political Art History" and "A People's History Of the US" at the Milwaukee 
Institute of Art and Design. As well, he teaches Basic Drawing in the 
Foundations Department He has volunteered in the past for Free Radio 
Berkeley, Food Not Bombs, The Wireless Virus (Milwaukee) and the 
Independent Media Center. He participated in the anti-globalization 
protests against the W.T.O. in Seattle (November, 1999) and the protests 
against the F.T.A.A. in Quebec City (April, 2001). He currently lives in 
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

The talk will be held at the Middle Room Gallery @ The Urbana-Champaign 
Independent Media Center, 218 W. Main Street in downtown Urbana IL.

Don't miss out on this unique opportunity!

Jason Pitzl-Waters
The Middle Room Gallery
@ The Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center
http://www.gallery.ucimc.org/