Artist Addoley Dzegede will deliver an online lecture titled The Weight of History as part of the MFA Lecture Series.

Dzegede (b. 1983) earned a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art, and an MFA in Visual Art from Washington University in St. Louis. She is currently a fellow at the Tulsa Artist Fellowship. She has most recently been an artist-in-residence at The Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach (2020), Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris (2019), Osei Duro in Accra, Ghana (2019), and Thread: a project of the Albers Foundation in Senegal (2018).

Solo exhibitions include millefiori at KSMoCA in Portland (2020) and Ballast at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (2018). Awards include a 2018 Great Rivers Biennial award and a 2018 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant.