William King, Visiting Artist Lecture 1967

William King gives a lecture at Skowhegan where he talks about his vast interdisciplinary practice. King draws on autobiographical narratives, his travels, and examining the world around him to create his work. King shows a series of slides of his past work which span a wide range of sizes and materials including drawings, paintings, glazed terracotta sculpture, wax, brass and bronze casting, mahogany and woodcarving. In his later practice, King starts heavily experimenting with vinyl, due to the shapes he can create with it and the way he manipulates how light interacts with the vinyl. King ends the lecture telling participants that what continues to drive his desire to experiment with different mediums is through constantly maintaining a drawing practice and treating all of his projects as a drawing.