Judith Linhares, a visiting artist in the painting and drawing area of the University of Iowa School of Art and Art History, will present a free lecture at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 5, in Room 116 of Art Building West.

Linhares came of age in the socially turbulent "take-it-to-the-streets" days of feminism, underground comics, and poetic reverie in Northern California. She graduated from California College of the Arts, and in 1975 she received the Adeline Kent Award in recognition for her contributions to the art of the region.

After participating in Marcia Tucker's seminal exhibition "Bad" Painting and receiving the first of three National Endowment for the Arts grants, Linhares moved to New York and later won a Guggenheim fellowship, an award in visual arts from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and many other honors.

Her résumé includes 40 one-person exhibitions, and her work is in collections including the U.S. State Department, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Learn more at her website.