Oakland, CA - Catherine Wagner, internationally acclaimed artist and art professor at Mills College, will present a “Lecture in Photography” at Columbia College (Chicago, IL) on Thursday, March 16, 2006 at 6:30 pm. Her visiting artist lecture is part of a series presented by the College’s Photography Department to enliven the contemporary cultural discourse with presentations by nationally and internationally recognized artists/photographers.

A faculty member at Mills since 1978, Wagner works with archetypes of society and transforms them into conceptual images investigating the construction of culture. She has been a keen observer of the built environment for more than 20 years. Her work is represented in significant public collections worldwide, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), Bibliotheque National de Paris, and the Victoria and Albert Museum (London).

Wagner is the recipient of many prestigious awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. In 2001, she was named one of Time magazine’s “Fine Arts Innovators of the Year.”

Mills College is a nationally renowned, independent liberal arts college offering innovative degree programs for undergraduate women, and graduate degree and certificate programs for women and men. Consistently ranked among the top 75 liberal arts colleges in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, Mills is also recognized as one of the country’s 20 most diverse liberal arts colleges. The Princeton Review selected Mills as one of 11 colleges for first-time inclusion in its Best 361 Colleges–2005. Nestled in the foothills of Oakland, California on 135 lush acres, Mills provides a dynamic liberal arts education fostering women’s leadership, social responsibility, and creativity.

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