Artist Riva Lehrer will deliver a lecture titled "Mirror Shards: Animals & Metaphor." Riva Lehrer is a Chicago artist whose work is regularly exhibited in Chicago Galleries including the Chicago Cultural Center. Riva was born with spina bifida and she speaks and writes about her drawing and painting that addresses the disabled human body.
Lehrer's current work is an exploration of the way that we learn to be empathetic through imagining ourselves as other beings, both animal and human. She will explore the role of animal symbols and concepts in understanding our connection to other beings, and discuss how disability raises specific issues in visual narrative.
This free lecture is co-sponsored by Wheaton College's Center for Applied Christian Ethics (CACE) and is part of CACE's 2011-2012 eMBODY series focusing on issues related to embodiment and our understanding of identity.
