Artist Talk and Closing Reception on April 11, 2025 at 5:30pm
Free and Open to the Public

Artist Lecture By Maggy Rozycki Hiltner:

Why So Serious? 

“Humor is both an artistic and life strategy toward understanding and relating to the world. A sense of humor that started off as a schoolyard defense mechanism can end up as artistic empowerment.  Some questions that came to mind in researching and writing this presentation were: Does art have to be serious to be taken seriously? Can humor be considered a universal and ahistorical phenomenon or do we project our own current tastes on our predecessors? And what makes something funny? This presentation is a brief visual survey of humor in art that includes contemporary and historical art images as well as images of the artist’s own work.” -Maggy Rozycki Hiltner