Visiting Artists Series features entertainment and music industry icon Rocky Schenck

Christine Davis Mantai

Rocky in his studio
Rocky Schenck in his studio, with assistant.

Visiting Artist Program:

  • Kathy Sully, Fredonia alumna whose work has been used in dozens of Hollywood blockbusters, including the Chronicles of Narnia, for which her company won an Oscar; Oct. 8
     
  • Rocky Schenck, music video director/writer and photographer; Oct. 15
     
  • Gerald Mead, award-winning mixed media artist and leading figure in the Buffalo artistic community; Nov. 5

All lectures are on Thursdays at 8:30 p.m. in 209 McEwen Hall.

Rocky Schenck, a world renowned photographer and music video director and writer, will be appearing in the Visiting Artist Program of the Fall 2009 series sponsored by the Visual Arts Department at SUNY Fredonia.

The Los Angeles-based artist will talk to the campus and community at an open lecture Thursday, Oct. 15, at 8:30 p.m. in 209 McEwen Hall. The event is free and open to the public, as space permits.

Mr. Schenck has produced music videos for Nick Cave & PJ Harvey ("Henry Lee"), Seal & Joni Mitchell ("How Do You Stop"), The Cramps ("Bikini Girls with Machine Guns" and "Creature from the Black Leather Lagoon)", Alice in Chains ("We Die Young", "Them Bones", "What the Hell Have I", and "Grind"), Annie Lennox & Rod Stewart ("If We Fall in Love Tonight"), and Van Halen ("Humans Being" and "Fire in the Hole"), among others.

In addition, he has photographed some of the biggest names in movies and music, including Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Uma Thurman, Babyface, Lawrence Fishburn, Neil Diamond, Counting Crows, Melissa Ethridge, Alice in Chains, and countless others.

The largest collection of his work is located at the Wittliff collections, Texas State University.

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