Lloyd Dobler Gallery is pleased to present the 2008 Summer Lecture Series. For three nights in June, Lloyd Dobler will host lectures by 3 emerging artists working in the Chicago art community today. We are looking forward to interesting conversations about their work as well as their lives here in the city. Questions are encouraged. Please join us for the following dates:

Thursday, June 12th, 7pm
Angee Lennard, Director of Spudnik Press
www.spudnikpress.com

Thursday, June 19th, 7pm
Cayetano Ferrer, Artist
www.cayetanoferrer.com

Thursday, June 26th, 7pm
John Opera, Photographer
www.johnopera.com

Thursday, July 10th, 7pm
TBA

Angee Lennard is an artist and educator, as well as the founder and director of Spudnik Press, a community print shop in Chicago. Spudnik is a work/live space that provides affordable access to etching, lithography, relief, and screen printing facilities as well as classes. Angee is also a teaching assistant at Marwen, a non-profit arts organization that offers free classes to underserved youth. Through this she shares her love of printmaking, comic book creation, and painting with youth from around the city. During the day, she works with elderly at a nursing home running brain fitness classes to help aging residents improve their cognitive abilities. And finally, she is the creator of "Mosdale Estate," a comic book about a fictional nursing home that addresses issues of aging and institutionalization. She received her BFA with an emphasis in Print Media from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Cayetano Ferrer is a graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Selected exhibitions include, "FAST-Future of Art Science and Technology," Daejeon, Korea at the Daejon Museum of Art; Brooklyn at 78 Dikeman Street; London, England at i-cabin; Chicago at The Plaines Project and Oakland at Lobot where he completed a residency in 2006. Ferrer was the recipient of The Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Visual Arts Award in 2006, a Worldstudio Foundation scholarship in 2004 and a merit scholarship from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2003. Ferrer had a recent solo show at Three Walls Solo and is attending USC in the fall for his MFA.

John Opera is a 2005 MFA graduate from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in photography. He teaches photography in the Early College Program at SAIC. Recent exhibitions include a two-person exhibition with Amir Zaki at Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, and group shows at Rowley Kennerk Gallery, Harold Arts, Bucket Rider Gallery, and McCormick Gallery. His recent solo shows include John Opera: Recent Photographs, Macalester College Art Gallery, St. Paul, MN; For Once, Then, Something, Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY; and The Project Room, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago.