Cornell hosts artist Tom Bamberger for lecture, unveiling of work May 24-25

MOUNT VERNON — Artist Tom Bamberger will lecture at Cornell College and preside at the campus unveiling of his digital work, “Spring Corn,” a gift from a Cornell alumnus.

The lecture is Thursday, May 24, at 8 p.m. in McWethy Hall Room 222. “Spring Corn,” presented to Cornell by trustee and 1967 Cornell graduate Richard Ryan of Wisconsin, will be unveiled in the Peter Paul Luce Gallery of McWethy Hall on Friday, May 25, at a reception from 4-6 p.m. Both events are open to the public and admission is free.

Bamberger is a Cornell Distinguished Visiting Artist appearing as part of the interdisciplinary initiative Kaleidoscope: The Cornell Program in the Arts. He has received National Endowment for the Arts and Wisconsin Arts Board fellowships. His photographs have been shown at the Center for Photography at Woodstock; the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; and the International Center for Photography and the Burden Gallery in New York City. Recently his work was included in the “Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort” exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Bamberger is adjunct curator of photography at the Milwaukee Museum of Art.