Master of Fine Arts Lecture Series presents: Ann Magnuson

April 1, 2009
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
University Park Campus
Graduate Fine Arts Building
Lecture Forum

Ann Magnuson is a Los Angeles-based actress, singer, writer and performance artist working in a myriad of media including TV, film and on stage in theatres, festivals, cabarets and art spaces around the world. She has performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Whitney Museum of American Art (where she performed her 5-hour “Tribute to Muzak” in the museum’s elevator), the Museum of Modern Art, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, NYSF/The Public Theater and Joe's Pub; the Hammer Museum, REDCAT, LACE and The Steve Allen Theater; Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum; Walker Art Center, Andy Warhol Museum, and in theaters, clubs and art galleries worldwide. Her performance at The Ice Hotel in Sweden’s Arctic Circle, part of an arts festival curated by Jeffrey Vallance, was made into a short film titled “In Search of My Blonde Roots” (in collaboration with director Matthew Amato.)