Toledo Tech Events

ARTalk: Brett Leonard, Hollywood Director. Recently named by the Producers Guild of America, with Variety Magazine, as one of the "Digital 25" - innovators transforming storytelling through digital media, Brett Leonard is an award-winning film director, music video producer and producer of groundbreaking films.

"Revolution of the Digital Media Lifestyle: New Models on Business and Creation"

Sponsored by the Dorothy Bryan Residency

4:30 p.m. Eva Marie Saint Theatre, Wolfe Center for the Arts

ARTalk: Brian Harper, Dr. Brian Kennedy, and Brett Leonard. Current and prospective art students will want to get a glimpse of the future in the upcoming ARTalk where BGSU will host three professionals in a panel discussion on futures facing graduates.

"Where Next? The Future of Art (School/Work/World)"

Sponsored by the Dorothy and Ashel Bryan Residency

4 p.m. Eva Marie Saint theatre, Wolfe Center for the Arts

Nathan Hendricks’ experience has taught him that there is no excuse for a lousy brand. As chief creative officer at LPK, he holds the organization’s creative teams to this standard, working toward the vision that every brand has the potential to make a powerful and positive difference for the people it serves.

In his over ten years with LPK, Nathan has sought to understand and explain the intangible force behind creativity, cultivating its growth in others. It’s a pursuit that has benefitted some of the world’s most recognizable consumer brands. Whether restaging leading global shampoo brands or redesigning LPK’s collaborative experience, his leadership has transformed the company into more than a just a place where people go to work. It is an environment where designers’ talents and curiosities are nourished, and where clients can count on exceptional results.

Nathan is devoted to placing LPK at the front of design’s unfolding future and has enacted forums for creatives at all levels of LPK to collaborate on best practices and thought leadership. His contributions have ensured that LPK remains an unparalleled resource for creativity, a place where divergent thinking meets professionalism, and where designers can be prolific and dedicated to their craft. Nathan holds a bachelor’s degree in industrial design from The Ohio State University with a major in visual communications.

ARTalk is a lecture series sponsored by the School of Art that brings prominent artists or scholars to campus. Free and open to the public.

“Ecological Aesthetics:” Part performance and part presentation, Nathaniel Stern will discuss 15 years of collaborative and solo projects that span interactive installation, networked interventions, performative printmaking, large-scale public and ecological art, and hybrid forms of video, drawing, sculpture and text. Stern’s work amplifies the relationships between humans, nature, and politics. If designers define problems, and engineers solve problems, artists, he says, create problems. We make “propositions for what could be." What would happen if we engaged with the world - its media, concepts and materials - just a bit differently? Stern's talk will be followed by a participatory discussion surrounding ecological aesthetics and critical craft, and their place alongside / within digital media.

ARTalk is a lecture series sponsored by the School of Art that brings prominent artists or scholars to campus. Free and open to the public.

Nathaniel Stern has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Trinity College in Dublin, a MOS in Interactive Telecommunications from Tisch School of Arts at NYU, and a BS in Fiber Science and Apparel Design from Cornell University. He is currently an Associate Professor of Art and Design Global Studies, and Engineering at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, and a Research Associate at the Research Centre of the University of Johannesburg.

There will be a panel discussion with professional artists Nathan Hendricks (Graphic Design), Paul Beel (Two-Dimensional Studies), Nathaniel Stern (Digital Arts), followed by a casual reception with the artists. Light refreshments will be served.

ARTalk is a lecture series sponsored by the School of Art that brings prominent artists or scholars to campus. Free and open to the public.