Date/Time
Date(s) - March 4, 2025
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location
Iris & Michael Smith Alumni Center
Categories
Free and open to the public. Click here to register.
Please join us for a public lecture by designer, activist, trained architect, and author Professor Ronald Rael. As this year’s Scott Artist, Rael gained national recognition in 2020 for his Teeter-Totter Wall that demonstrates the delicate balance of the United States and Mexico’s trade and labor relationship.
Professor Ronald Rael is the Eva Li Memorial Chair in Architecture in the Department of Architecture in the College of Environmental Design, and is also a member of the art faculty in the Department of Art Practice at the University of California Berkeley. His research interests connect indigenous and traditional material practices to contemporary technologies and issues and he is considered to be a design activist, author, and thought leader within the topics of additive manufacturing, borderwall studies, and earthen architecture.
He is distinguished as being both a Bakar and Hellman Fellow, and directs the printFARM Laboratory (print Facility for Architecture, Research and Materials). His past leadership roles have included serving as Department Chair, Director of the Masters of Architecture, and Director of the Masters of Advanced Architectural Design programs.
The Hatton Gallery will be hosting an exhibition featuring Rael’s work from February 20 – March 14, 2025.
Funded by Alumni Shaesby Scott (’97, Art), and his wife, Catherine Scott (’98, History), the Scott Artist Series, the Scott Artist Series supports the exchange of ideas among artists from multiple disciplines, various places, and diverse backgrounds. Inspirational speakers and artists are invited to the CSU campus to share creative and innovative ideas aimed at broadening the horizons of art students. Guest artists in the series are art influencers who have national and international exposure. Their involvement with our community is critical to the long-term impact that art has on society.
Sponsored by the Lilla B. Morgan Fund, the Department of Art and Art History, and the Hatton Gallery.