Peter Eudenbach, ODU Art Faculty and artist featured in Message in a Bottle: Picturing Maritime Culture in Hampton Roads, will speak about his works in the exhibition and the ongoing inspiration he finds in the sea.

Bio: Peter Eudenbach uses sculpture, video, installations, and curatorial projects to explore the relationship between function and absurdity while challenging our expectations of the commonplace. A 2007 recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship, Eudenbach’s work has been shown nationally and internationally at venues such as Exit Art in New York; the Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim in Neuenhaus, Germany; the Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, Virginia; the Hermitage Museum and Gardens, and the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in Charleston, SC. He lives in Norfolk, Virginia, where he is a Professor in the Art Department at Old Dominion University.