Plymouth State University to host lecture on using art to spark curiosity

PLYMOUTH — The Plymouth State University Saul O Sidore Lecture Series will host the second lecture in its year-long examination of how curiosity and creativity feed passion for life on Tuesday, Oct. 17, at 7 p.m.

Award-winning multidisciplinary artist and author Shanta Lee will present, “Internal Alchemy and External Play Birth the Curiously Engaged Life: How Self-Creation and Inquiry Come Together in Shanta Lee’s World of Images, Words and Life Practice.” The lecture will be held in the Smith Recital Hall at the Silver Center for the Arts on the PSU campus.

In this lecture, Lee will discuss how to engage with the unknown, unseen and intangible to create artistic mediums such as writing, photography and film, to experience internal alchemy and to lead a curious life. She will share images, words and life practices that have sparked curiosity throughout her life and will explain her experiential journey to inspire society to think about their own version of living a curiously engaged life.

Lee is a lecturer and scholar with the Vermont Humanities Council Speakers Bureau and is the author of "GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA: Dreamin of Mama While Trying to Speak Woman in Woke Tongues and Black Metamorphoses." She also has a current multimedia exhibition at the University of Vermont’s Fleming Museum of Art and the Southern Vermont Arts Center called Dark Goddess: An Exploration of the Sacred Feminine, featuring a short film, interviews and photography.

The Saul O Sidore Lecture series is free and open to the public, but reservations are recommended. Unless otherwise noted, lectures take place in the Smith Recital Hall in the Silver Center for the Arts in Plymouth. A reception with the artist will follow the lecture.

For more information and to register to attend in-person or online, visit campus.plymouth.edu/sidore/