Photographer, Sculptor, Oct. 19

Photographer Tommaso Lesnick and sculptor Elena Rakochy, featured in this year's Knox College Alumni Art Show, will discuss their works at 7 p.m., Friday, October 19, in the Round Room, Ford Center for the Fine Arts on the Knox campus in Galesburg, Illinois. The lecture is free and open to the public. Their works will be on display through November 12.

The lecture and exhibit are free and open to the public. They are part of Knox's Homecoming Weekend 2007.

Rakochy, a 1995 Knox College graduate, recently completed a master of fine arts degree, with a concentration in ceramics, at Indiana State University. Earlier this year, she was one of three artists who participated in the Studios Midwest Program, an artist's residency hosted by Knox and sponsored by the Galesburg Civic Art Center. Originally from Evanston, Illinois, Rakochy majored in Spanish at Knox and received the 1995 Anna E. Young Award in Ceramics.

Lesnick received his bachelor's degree from Knox in 1992, cum laude and a master of fine arts degree at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1995. An interdisciplinary major at Knox, he also was co-winner of the 1992 Matthew Dale Gunther Award in Drawing. Originally from Homewood, Alabama, Lesnick is an artist and advertising consultant in Berwyn, Illinois, where he has served on the Berwyn Arts Council. He also has been active in the "Save the Spindle" campaign to preserve a landmark sculpture -- eight cars impaled on a 50-foot steel spike -- located in the Cermak Plaza in Berwyn.