UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The College of Arts and Architecture’s School of Visual Arts will kick off its annual Anderson Lecture Series by welcoming documentary photographer Rebecca Kiger on Tuesday, March 3, at 11:30 a.m. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be held in Foster Auditorium located in the Paterno Library.
The lecture series is supported by the John Muller Anderson endowment, which was named in honor of the professor emeritus who was an Evan Pugh research professor of philosophy and the first director of Penn State’s Institute for the Arts and Humanities.
Kiger is a documentary photographer, a Center for Contemporary Documentation fellow and an artist-in-residence at high schools in the Rust Belt of Appalachia. She is a frequent contributor to Time, the New Yorker, the New York Times and the Washington Post.
She recently received awards from the Society of Environmental Journalists, Pictures of the Year, and World Press Photo for her year-long-project covering the toxic train derailment that took place in East Palestine, Ohio, in 2023.
Kiger, who lives in Wheeling, West Virginia, is currently the 2025–26 Visual Communications Knight Fellow at Ohio University.