Walsh, who has led the school’s Multimedia Arts and Sciences department for the past five years, was invited to speak at the Museum on January 31, 2008 as part of the ongoing Up for Discussion series.

“Today more than ever, artists are pushing the boundaries of what drawing is,” Walsh said in her talk to Museum guests inside the WNC Resource Center. “Drawing is no longer just pencil and paper or preparing a sketch. Digital media has energized the visual art since the 1980s and 1990s to open everything up to include more software art and animation. In general, it’s made everything more dynamic.”

As an artist and designer, Walsh’s work has been exhibited internationally in Germany, Yugoslavia, Cuba, Mexico, Spain and Malaysia. She has also had work published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Newsday, Time Out New York and The New York Observer.

Walsh’s lecture was one of the Museum’s programs associated with the exhibition Lines of Discovery: American Drawings , which will remain on view in the Appleby Foundation Gallery through Sunday, February 10, 2008.

“Lorraine gave us some interesting connections and paths about where drawing is today and where it is going,” said Asheville Art Museum Adult Programs Manager Nancy Sokolove. “We were happy to have her here.” 

The next Up for Discussion lecture at the Asheville Art Museum will begin at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, March 14 in the Museum’s WNC Resource Center when UNC - Chapel Hill Wilson Library photo archivist Stephen Fletcher will showcase several previously unseen images by Nace Brock during his presentation “Nace Brock Photos Revealed.”

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Chair of Multimedia Arts and Sciences
at UNC-Asheville Lorraine Walsh talks
to students and Museum guests on
January 31, 2008 during her “Drawing
Today” lecture.