Ella Weber will present a Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture on Wednesday, Feb. 13 at 5:30 p.m. at Sheldon Museum of Art’s Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public.

The School of Art, Art History & Design’s Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & 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 Sheldon Museum of Art.

Weber, a University of Nebraska–Lincoln alumna (B.F.A. 2010), is a basement-based artist who uses humor, performance and storytelling within her practice. Her debut novel, “The Deli Diaries,” is published with Latah Books.

Playfully upending the existential fabrics of daily life, Weber transforms her minimum-wage day jobs into her studio. Across the counter and screen, Weber blurs the line between employee and customer, performance and reality, art and life. Trained in printmaking, Weber received an M.F.A. from the University of Kansas and her B.F.A. from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

She has attended residencies including MASS MoCA, The NARS Foundation, Rogers Art Loft, PrattMWP, Ox-Bow School of Art, The Wassaic Project, Signal Culture, PLAYA, Jentel, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts and Anderson Ranch.

Her recent solo exhibitions include the Plains Art Museum (Fargo, North Dakota), The Union for Contemporary Art (Omaha, Nebraska), and Munson (Utica, New York). Her recent group exhibitions include the Everson Museum (Syracuse, New York) Contemporary Art Center (Cincinnati, Ohio) IPCN! Y (New York, New York), among several others.

Most significantly, she accidentally completed a 10-week community college course, titled “How to Be a Stand-Up Comedian” with her dad.

View her work on her website at https://www.ellaweber.com.