April 19, 2008: Second Tuesday Lectures

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Image by Priscilla Briggs

Second Tuesday Lecure + Priscilla Briggs:
Photographing Consumerism

April 8   -  7:00 PM

In this Second Tuesday Lecture, Priscilla Briggs will discuss her work, Global Market on view through April 27 in the Minnesota Projects Gallery. Briggs' work examines identity and human desire in the context of a capitalist society. Her images are of shopping malls and tourist markets from various regions of the world, focusing on cultural identity, the nature of merchandise for sale, and advertising images.

Briggs is a photo and video artist living in Minneapolis. She earned her M.F.A. in Photography and Digital Imaging from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2000 and her B.A. in Graphic and Language Arts from Carnegie Mellon University in 1989. Briggs currently works as a Professor of Studio Art at Gustavus Adolphus College.

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