An Artist Talk with Laurin Notheisen will be held on Tuesday March 29 at 7:00 p.m. in the Ivan Wilson Fine Arts Center Recital Hall with a reception to follow in the FAC Art Gallery 2nd Floor.  The event is free and open to the public.

Born in 1951, Laurin Notheisen grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and attended children’s classes on Saturdays at the Art Institute.  She received her B.F.A. degree in painting and her M.F.A. degree in lithography from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana.  In 1975, she was hired as an instructor by Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, where Professor Notheisen continues to teach basic design, drawing and printmaking.

Recent juried shows include the 34th Annual Art on Paper National Juried Exhibition, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD, to be held this March 2011; Boston Printmakers 2011 North American Biennial, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA, February 2011; and International Drawing Annual 5, exhibition-in-print, Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2010.  In 2009, the Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science presented Reinventing the Real: The Art of Laurin Notheisen a retrospective exhibition as part of The Martha and Merritt deJong Memorial Artist-in-Residence.

Notheisen’s work can be found in the collections of the Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science, Bristol-Myers, Brown-Forman, Louisville Gas and Electric, Mammoth Cave National Park, Arkansas State University and Austin Peay University. She can be seen in the KET video production Looking At Painting, Part 1, Realism, by Robert Tharsing.