Artist and educator Stephen Lacy will speak about his work during a visiting artist lecture at noon Wednesday, March 18, in the University Galleries at Uptown Circle. Lacy will be an artist-in-residence at Illinois State from March 15 to 27.

Living and working in Chicago and Providence, Rhode Island, Lacy produces, performs and exhibits under the name Academy Records. Academy Records produces live performances, recorded events, drawings, installations, film works and printed ephemera. Lacy received his master’s in fine arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2000.