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hotographer Margaret LeJeune will present the next Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture at 5:30 p.m. March 13 at the Sheldon Museum of Art’s Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public. 

The School of Art, Art History and Design’s Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series brings notable artists, scholars and designers to Nebraska each semester to enhance the education of students. The series is presented in collaboration with the Sheldon Museum of Art.

LeJeune’s creative practice explores the relationship between art, science and environmental studies. As a lens-based creator, she produces works that probe shifting landscapes, symbiotic relationships, and the nature of the photographic medium. In 2023, she was named the Woman Science Photographer of the Year by the Royal Photographic Society.

Her photographs, installations and video works have appeared in over 150 solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. She has been an artist-in-residence at several programs that promote collaboration between the arts and sciences including the Changing Climate Residency at Santa Fe Art Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison Trout Lake Research Station, University of Notre Dame Environmental Research Center, Ives Lake Field Station at Huron Mountain Wildlife Foundation and the Global Nomadic Art Project.

LeJeune’s work can be found in the permanent collection of Nevada Museum of Art Center for Art+Environment, Central Michigan University Galleries, Mercer Gallery at Monroe Community College, Nazareth University and many private collections. 

She has been the recipient of two Puffin Foundation Visual Artist Grants (2014/ 2022), Community Arts Foundation Grant (2018), and Arkansas Artist Council Sally A. Williams Artist Grant (2011). Her work has been published in Slate, Lenscratch, Oxford American, Urbanautica, Tatter Journal, and books from art.earth press including Culture, Community, and Climate: conversations and emergent praxis and Evolving the Forest.LeJeune received her MFA from Visual Studies Workshop.

She is a founding member of the Women’s Environmental Photography Collective and vice-chair of the Society for Photographic Education.