Designer to speak at KU campus

Designer and North Carolina State University graphic design professor Denise Gonzales Crisp will visit Kansas University on Monday as part of the Hallmark Design Symposium Series.

Gonzales Crisp is principal of the itinerant studio SuperStove! and associate professor of graphic design at the College of Design at North Carolina State University.

Her design and writing have appeared in the Russian KAK, Graphis, Ãmigre, Metropolis, Eye, Print, Step and I.D. magazines. Her design work was featured in the 2002 Paris exhibition “East Coast/West Coast Dreams” and more recently in the 2005 anthology “All Access: The Making of Thirty Extraordinary Graphic Designers.”

The presentation will be at 6 p.m. in Wescoe Auditorium, Room 3140 Wescoe Hall. It is free and open to the public. For more information, call 864-4401.

KU professor to exhibit sculptures in K.C.

Matthew Burke, assistant professor of art in Kansas University’s School of Fine Arts, will feature his wood forms in a sculpture exhibition titled “Da Birdies,” showing Friday through Nov. 29 at the Zone Gallery and Outdoor Sculpture Park in Kansas City, Mo.

Burke will exhibit large works in wood inspired from war shields of Oceania, as well as personal themes of family and home.

The show will open during Kansas City’s First Fridays event from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. It also will be on display during regular gallery hours, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday, through the duration of the exhibit.

The exhibition is free and open to the public. Zone Gallery and Outdoor Sculpture Park is located at 1830 Locust St.

Painter to give gallery talk, workshop

Painter James Winn, whose work currently is part of the exhibit “Views from the Heartland” at Signs of Life, will give a gallery talk at 7:30 p.m. Friday.

Winn has been making his mark on the American art scene for nearly three decades. His art is included in more than 35 of the world’s premier art collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, Omaha’s Jocelyn Art Museum and the Hallmark Corporate Art Collection.

The event will be at the gallery, located at 722 Mass. It is free and open to the public.