Dr. Nöellie Roussel
When: September 13, 2012 @ 6 p.m.
Where: Building 36, room 191

Mike Kelly (1954 – 2012) was a multimedia American artist whose practice encompassed drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, video, photography, music and performance. Dr. Nöellie Roussel will examine how the artist used complex visual strategies based on an in–depth knowledge of popular culture and art history; to trace a unique path in contemporary art from the late 1970s until his passing in 2012. Work examined will include appropriation–influenced stuffed animal series and the large–scale installations based on teenage social rituals.

Hydeia Broadbent
When: November 29, 2012 @ 6:00 p.m.
Where: Building 36, room 191
"Knowing Your HIV/AIDS Status"

At birth, Hydeia Broadbent was abandoned at the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas where Patricia and Loren Broadbent adopted her as an infant. Although her HIV condition was congenital, she was not diagnosed as HIV-positive with advancement to AIDS until age three. The prognosis was that she would not live past the age of five. Now at the age of 28, Hydeia spends her time spreading the message of HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention.

"People think because I was born with HIV my story does not apply to them. Well this same disease I am living with is the same disease you can get if you don't know the HIV status of the person you are considering becoming sexually active with before hand, I ask people to use my testimony as a warning of what you don't want to go through."
–Hydeia Broadbent