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GOSHEN — Goshen College’s annual Eric Yake Kenagy Visiting Artist program will host Maria Tomasula, professor emerita at Notre Dame.

Tomasula is a Latinx studio artist who specializes in prints, paintings and drawings. With her speech, “Giving Visual Form to a Sense of Self,” she will speak about her work at 7 p.m. Sept. 18 in the Music Center’s Rieth Recital Hall, which will be followed by a reception. Both events are free for the public.

Maria Tomasula

Before her speech, Tomasula will visit classes at the college and give guest workshops to students in drawing and painting classes. The following morning, she will attend a brunch and discussion open to students from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

Tomasula has held exhibitions and lectures in places like the Zolla/Lieberman Gallery in Chicago and at the Forum Galleries in New York and Los Angeles. Her work resume includes a variety of group exhibitions as well, with her artwork shown at the Palmer Museum of Art, Nassau County Museum of Art, the National Museum of Mexican Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

Tomasula’s work has also been featured in publications such as The New Yorker, ARTnews and The New York Times. She earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago and her MFA from Northwestern University.

As Tomasula puts it, her artwork “draws on her lived experiences as a cultural hybrid to create images that resonate with themes of memory, history, spirituality and embodiment.”

This lecture is part of Goshen College’s new lecture series. For more information and other speakers, visit the website.