Josh Winkler focuses on environmental issues connected to history and place. By combining personal experience with historic investigation, he builds landscape narratives that ask viewers to engage the social, political, and environmental contexts of their surroundings. Winkler is currently completing his second Artist Initiative Grant from the MN State Arts Board, and was recently selected for an artist residency at the University of Minnesota’s Bell Museum of Natural History.

The Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture Series brings notable artists, scholars and designers to the University of Nebraska; enhancing the education of our students and enriching the culture of the state by providing a way for the public to interact with luminaries in the fields of art, art history and design. All lectures in this series are free and open to the public.