Pat Benincasa is an adjunct faculty member at the College of Visual Arts and is Artist In Residence at Hill-Murray School in Maplewood, MN. In addition to her teaching commitments, she gives talks at colleges, universities, groups and conferences. Guest Lecturer & Speaking Highlights American Institute of Architects Minnesota Conference, Talk Title: "Windows like the Earth, Were Once Thought to be Flat" 6 Part Lecture: Public Art: Redefining Art, Artist and Spectator. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota Guest faculty at Minneapolis College of Art & Design Practicing Criticism In The Visual Arts Panel Discussion, Cosponsored by the Center For Arts Criticism and the Minnesota Arts Experience Minneapolis College of Art & Design Graduate Seminar Minnetonka Center For The Arts, "Contemporary Artists Lecture Series," Wayzata, Minnesota Fine Arts Seminar, Bethel College, Arden Hills, Minnesota "Women In the Arts Lecture Series," Saint Catherine University, Saint Paul, Minnesota "Power of the Arts: A New Vision of Our Children, Communities and the Arts" workshop and luncheon with Jane Alexander, National Endowment for the Arts Chairwoman Minnesota Art Educator's Fall Conference, River-On-The-Water Conference Center, Elk River, Minnesota E.L. Boyer Conference: "Rebuilding The Partnership," sponsored by the Minnesota Center for Arts Education, Golden Valley, Minnesota "Culture Talks: A Community and Cultural Planning initiative," Office of the Mayor, Minneapolis, Minnesota Guest Speaker at University of Minnesota School of Art Arnold Flaten Memorial Lecture Series at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota Center for Arts Criticism and the Minnesota Arts Experience, Saint Paul, Minnesota Guest Juror at the University of Minnesota School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Guest Speaker at Hamline University, Saint Paul, Minnesota University of Wisconsin-Superior, Superior, Wisconsin Self Portrait, MFA Final Project, 4'x5,' 4H-9H Pencils on paper   all images copyright ©