Nacho Zamora—entrepreneur, curator of public art, and director of the Solar Artworks Project based in Dubai—will give a guest lecture at 6 p.m. Friday, Feb. 8, in Room 240 of Art Building West on the University of Iowa campus.

The lecture is free and the public is welcome to attend.

Zamora received a master's degree in artistic production with a focus on public art at the Polytechnic University of Valencia and is completing his Ph.D. In 2009, Zamora started the Solar Artworks Project to promote works of solar art as a clever investment in public art and the urban landscape. These projects combine art, architecture, design, and science with a common objective to create new aesthetic spaces within urban landscapes while promoting ecological global awareness.

“I believe in a change of the model of society inspired by renewable energies,” Zamora says. “This change can take part in our daily lives through works of solar art. These projects demonstrate that solar power can be beautiful and integrated within architecture.”

Zamora was a speaker at the European Union Sustainable Energy Week (Brussels) in 2010 and an organizer in 2012 (he has an agreement with the European Commission to participate again in 2013). Zamora's most recent project is a collaboration with the Great Lakes Bay Regional Alliance in Michigan to create the first international exhibition of works of solar art in October.