Each summer, we invite visiting artists, curators, and scholars to participate in MFA curriculum. In addition to critiques and studio visits with students, Visiting Artists deliver a lecture that is free and open to the public. Lectures are held in Osher Hall and begin at 6:30pm.
Summer 2013
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William Wegman is the author of numerous books for children, including New York Times bestseller Puppies. Working with his cast of Weimaraners, Wegman has created projects for Saturday Night Live, Nickelodeon, and Sesame Street, where his videos have appeared regularly since 1989. Wegman’s movie The Hardly Boys in Hardly Gold was screened at the Sundance Film Festival. He has appeared on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and with Jay Leno, David Letterman and, most recently, The Colbert Report. Wegman currently lives in New York and Maine. >> Read More
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MONDAY, JUNE 24ALIX LAMBERTWriter, Producer, Filmmaker & Artist 
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Alix Lambert is a filmaker, author and artist living in New York City. She was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for her work on the HBO drama Deadwood and was also an associate producer and staff writer for the HBO "surf noir" series John From Cincinnati. Her feature-length documentary The Mark of Cain was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and aired on Nightline. In 2013 she will be the Kennedy Fellow Visiting Artist at the School of Art at the University of South Florida. >> Read More |
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MONDAY, JULY 1JIM DRAINSculpture, Textile, & Installation-Based Artist |
Jim Drain is a Miami-based artist who creates hyperactive, chaotic art, fashion and furniture, using an abundance of materials from chains to yarn to costumes. He graduated from Rhode Island School of Design and was involved in the highly influential Fort Thunder community in Rhode Island, and was also a former member of Forcefield, a performance art collective who collaborated on videos, comics, totems, experimental music, kinetic sculptures covered in textiles, and more. His work has been collected by the Museum of Modern Art. >> Read More
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MONDAY, JULY 8KATE GILMOREInstallation, Video & Performance-Based Artist |
Kate Gilmore's performance videos feature often feature herself as a female protagonist struggling to overcome a self-imposed obstacle. Her live "Through the Claw" performance piece at The Pace Gallery in New York in 2011 featured five women in yellow flower print dresses tasked with dismantling a giant cube of clay. Her themes of displacement, female identity, and the body's relationship to systems of power are reflected in her artful and occasionally absurd critiques of sex and gender. >> Read More |
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MONDAY, JULY 15JENNIFER GROSSCurator at Yale University Art Gallery  |
Jennifer Gross is the Seymour H. Knox, Jr., Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Yale University Art Gallery. She recently organized a retrospective on the American artist Richard Artschwager at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Recent curatorial projects at the Yale University Art Gallery includeContinuous Present, showcasing the work of eleven contemporary artists, and the traveling exhibitionThe Société Anonyme: Modernism for America. >> Read More |
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MONDAY, JULY 22SPENCER FINCHSculpture, Drawing & Installation-Based Artist |
Spencer Finch works in a variety of media, including watercolor, photography, glass, electronics, video and flourescent lights. His light installations play with ideas of memory and perception and he is known for reconstructing the luminosity of locales through the use of a colorimeter to measure natural light at specific places and times. His public projects include "The River that Flows Both Ways," a site-specific installation at New York's High Line public park in New York City, which features glass designed from photographic pixel points to create an effect of watery translucence linked to the river and the former rail line.>> Read More
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MONDAY, JULY 29LAYLAH ALIPainter
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Laylah Ali lives and works in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Her small, figurative gouache paintings take her many months to complete, as she meticulously plots out every aspect of her work in advance, from subject matter to choice of color and brushes. Her meticulous paintings resemble comic-book serials, but they also contain stylistic references to hieroglyphics and American folk-art traditions, producing a high level of emotional tension as a result of juxtaposing brightly colored scenes with dark, often violent subject matter that speaks of political resistance, social relationships, and betrayal. >> Read More |
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MONDAY, AUGUST 5WILLIAM VILLALONGOPainter, Printmaker & Mixed Media Artist
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William Villalongo redefines racial and sexual politics in his mixed media compositions that reference art history through the use of mythological and religious figures placed in a variety of African-American and American contexts. His work sparks conversations about the nature of art history, exoticism, and culture. Through appropriating iconic and mass culture imagery, he creates colorful narrative relationships "in which the cry of many voices melds the events of today into the mythologies of tomorrow." >> Read More |
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2012 Lecture Series
View a list of our Past Visiting Artists
Michael Kimmelman
Thursday, June 21
“From New York to Europe and Back Again”
Michael Kimmelman’s talk is an intimate and story-filled reflection on his path from The New York Times’s Chief Art Critic, trawling the world’s museums and galleries to Foreign Correspondent (based in Berlin), reinventing cultural reporting from Marseille to Gaza to Berlin and Istanbul, all of which prepared the way for his current post as Architecture Critic, writing about issues facing us at a time when society and cities are rapidly changing.
Beth Lipman
Monday, June 25
Beth Lipman lives and works in Sheboygan Falls, WI. She has exhibited her work widely and received numerous awards including a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, Wisconsin Arts Board Fellowship, and a Ruth Chenven Foundation Grant. Lipman has exhibited her work internationally at such institutions as the ICA at MECA, the RISD Museum, the Milwaukee Art Museum, and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Radcliffe Bailey
Monday, July 2
Radcliffe Bailey creates his mixed media paintings by piecing together ancestral photographs, collected objects, and painted words and maps. Born in 1968 in New Jersey, Bailey now lives and works in Atlanta. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Atlanta College of Art in 1991. His work is permanently installed in the Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and in numerous permanent collections including The Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The High Museum of Art, and The Art Institute of Chicago.
Amze Emmons
Monday, July 9
Amze Emmons is one of the co-founders of Printersting.org. He is an artist, illustrator, curator, living and working in Philadelphia, PA. Currently, he teaches art at Muhlenberg College in Allentown. Emmons and his partners at Printeresting are organizing a zine and small press exposition at Space Gallery from July 20 - August 23 featuring work from 60 talented artists, designers, and publishers from around the world.
Stanya Kahn
Monday, July 16
California-based Stanya Kahn is an interdisciplinary media artist. Working primarily in video, with a practice that includes performance, writing, and photography, Kahn's work inhabits a space between fiction and document, and stems from an extensive background in live performance. Kahn has worked in a collaborative team with artist Harry Dodge, and her work has shown in numerous venues nationally and internationally, including the Whitney Biennial, the California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art, and The Museum of Modern Art.
Francis Cape
Monday, July 23
Francis Cape was trained as a woodcarver before receiving his MFA from Goldsmiths College, University of London. He has exhibited his work extensively in the US, including shows at the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art. Cape is represented by Murray Guy in New York City. He lives and works in Narrowsburg, NY.
Denise Markonish
Monday, July 30
Denise Markonish is the curator at MASS MoCA where she has curated the exhibitions of Nari Ward, Petah Coyne and Inigo Manglano-Ovalle. Markonish also co-edited with Susan Cross the book Sol LeWitt: 100 Views. Previous to her work at MASS MoCA, Markonish was the curator at Artspace in New Haven, CT.
Anne Wilson
Monday, August 6
Anne Wilson is a Chicago-based visual artist who creates sculpture, drawings, performances and video animations that explore themes of time, loss, private and social rituals. Wilson is the recipient of grants from the Driehaus Foundation, Artadia, the Tiffany Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Wilson's work is represented by Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago and Paul Kotula Projects, Detroit. She is a Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.