CLINTON HILL — Artist Mary Kelly will speak at Pratt Institute about her influences, artwork, and career as part of the 2009-2010 Visiting Artists Lecture Series, from 12:45 to 1:45 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 10, in the Engineering Building, Room 371, on Pratt’s Brooklyn Campus. The lecture is free and open to the public.

The Pratt Visiting Artists Lecture Series is an annual yearlong series organized by the Department of Fine Arts in the School of Art and Design at Pratt Institute to welcome nationally and internationally recognized fine artists to share their experiences with the Pratt community.

Kelly has contributed extensively to the discourse of feminism and postmodernism through her large-scale narrative installations and theoretical writings.

Her recent exhibitions include “Documenta XII,� Kassel; WACK! “Art and the Feminist Revolution,� Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in 2007; the 2004 Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the 2008 Biennale of Sydney. She is the author of Post-Partum Document (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983) and Imaging Desire (MIT Press, 1996).

Kelly is a professor of art at the University of California at Los Angeles.

Kelly is the fourth artist of eight invited to speak as part of the fall program of the 2009-2010 Visiting Artists Lecture Series. The series is coordinated by graduate students Yael Rechter and Elizabeth Stehling under the supervision of Professor Dominique Nahas in the Department of Fine Arts.

Visitors can enter Pratt Institute’s campus on DeKalb or Willoughby Avenue between Hall Street and Classon Avenue. The closest subway stop is the Clinton-Washington station on the G line. For directions to campus or parking information, visit www.pratt.edu/directions. Founded in 1887, Pratt Institute is one of the largest independent colleges of art and design in the United States, offering undergraduate and graduate degree programs in the schools of architecture, art and design, information and library science, and liberal arts and sciences.

Pratt is located on 25 landscaped acres in the Clinton Hill section of Brooklyn and has a Manhattan campus in a large, eight-story building on West 14th Street.

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