Artist Catie Newell employs former living spaces as a medium to explore the reconfiguration of material. She will discuss three recent projects in a free public lecture entitled “Once Residences,” Thursday, January 26, at 7 p.m., in room 115, LeBel Building.

Newell is a founding principal of Alibi Studio and an assistant professor of architecture at the University of Michigan. She received the $50,000 SOM Prize for Architecture, Design and Urban Design in 2006.

Her appearance Thursday is part of the Alone+Together Speaker Series, a collaboration between the School of Visual Arts and the Art Gallery of Windsor.