Season 3 :ELS MF9.v3.2024
Mark Owens

Maximilian Schachtner

Roxanne Gray



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Season Three of the Ellipsis Lecture Series invited a dynamic group of creatives whose work exemplifies innovation and collaboration at the intersections of design, performance, and community. Through their distinct yet interconnected practices, this season’s speakers—Mark Owens, Maximilian Schachtner, and Roxanne Gray—offered compelling perspectives on how creativity can drive meaningful connections and cultural transformation.

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Mark Owens

LECTURE ONEMark Owens, a designer, writer, and curator working between New York, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia. In addition to independent projects the studio creates publications, print materials, websites, identities, exhibition graphics, apparel, and motion design for clients, collaborators, artists, and institutions. Mark holds an MFA in graphic design from Yale University and an MA in English from Duke University. His work has been featured in IDEA (Tokyo), GRAPHIC (Korea), Phaidon’s Area 2, the Walker Art Center’s Gradient blog, Graphic Design: Now in Production, and included in the 2013 Typojanchi Typography Biennial.His essays have appeared in the pages of Dot Dot Dot, Visible Language, IDEA, GRAPHIC, PIN-UP, Bricks from the Kiln, and Experimental Jetset’s Statement and Counter-Statement. In co-edited with Zak Kyes the catalogue for the exhibition Forms of Inquiry at the Architectural Association, London, and in 2012 he was the recipient of a Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation. In 2016 he served as guest curator of the exhibition The Surface of Design at Purchase College, SUNY.
06.01.2022



Maximilian Schachtner
LECTURE TWOMaximilian Schachtner is the founder of Daily Dialogue—a design studio and creative consultancy providing guidance for people, institutions and brands of different scales. Additionally Maximilian is co-founder of Squama—a record label from Munich founded in 2019, releasing multi-layered musical and visual objects run alongside producer Martin Brugger.
06.15.2022





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Roxanne Gray


LECTURE THREERoxanne Gray is a Salt Lake City-based dance artist and curator working to build community through collaborative structures and curated experiences. She is the Director of 801 Salon, a multidisciplinary art and performance series and nonprofit organization that helps local artists present work in nontraditional spaces in Salt Lake City. Gray is also the Founder and Director of PlayGround Dance Project, a choreographic flash incubator providing local choreographers and dancers resources to produce a show of new works in under a week, previously funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Salt Lake City Arts Council. PlayGround promotes risk-taking, collaborative processes, and experimental dance making, while providing free resources for ethical and sustainable freelance practices.

06.29.2022





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