news & events : visiting artists

Visiting Artist lectures are free and open to the public.  The Visiting Artist lecture series is made possible thanks to the support of the Gene R. Cohen Charitable Foundation, the Isabel K. Pease Trust, the Robert Lehman Foundation and the David Educational Foundation.

Sarwar Khan and his Rajasthani Folk Musicians : May 11
Porteous Building
Following a performance at the Merrill Auditorium for the MECA Commencement, the musicians will play in the Porteous Building.

MFA Visiting Artist Summer Lecture Series Summer 2008

Each summer, the Master of Fine Art in Studio Art program invites visiting artists to work with students and offer free public lectures.
For more information, call 207.775.3052.

Location and times to be announced.

June 19: Brian Conley
Brian Conley is Chair of the Fine Arts Department at California College of the Arts. In work ranging from large-scale sculpture to live-radio broadcasts and interactive sound installations, his projects focus on the relationship between art installation and scientific display, mixing fact and fiction to explore the human experience within a continuum bounded by technology and nature.

June 23: Jason Lewis
Jason Lewis is a digital artist and technology researcher whose work revolves around experiments in visual language, text and typography. His other interests include computation as a creative material, emergent media theory and history, and methodologies for conducting art-led technology research. Lewis was trained in philosophy and computer science at Stanford University and in art and design at the Royal College of Art and is currently an Assistant Professor of Computation Arts at Concordia University in Montreal, where he founded and directs Obx Laboratory for Experimental Media.

June 30: Caroline Jones
Caroline Jones teaches Architecture for MIT's Women's and Gender Studies Department. Her particular focus is on the technological modes of production, distribution, and reception of modern and contemporary art. She co-edited Picturing Science, Producing Art (1998), and has published on subjects ranging from Francis Picabia to John Cage to new media art in journals such as Critical Inquiry, Res, Science in Context, caareviews online, and Cahiers du Musée national d'art moderne.

Mark Wethli

The A. LeRoy Greason Professor of Art at Bowdoin College, Mark C. Wethli is a painter inspired by the tension between ideal platonic forms and creative origins. His latest work continues his investigation into the interplay of color, light, and geometry. Unlike his previous work of straight-edged grids comprised of various colors and defined by straight edges, his new work, influenced by fabric design and decorative art, has a hand-hewn quality that tempts the boundary between the organic and the geometric.

July 14: Karyn Olivier
Karyn Oliver was born in 1968 in Trinidad, raised in Brooklyn and educated at Dartmouth where she studied psychology and the Cranbrook Academy of Art where she studied ceramics. She mines subjects such as childhood play, furniture and billboards to explore complex psychological and cultural riches in the form of disorienting sculptures and installations. She currently teaches at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard.

July 21: Amy Yoes
After years dedicated to painting, artist Amy Yoes has begun exploring multimedia environments in the form of otherworldly environments and idiosyncratic interiors created through photography, sculpture and video. A native of Texas who studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she is currently working on "50,000 Beds," a collaborative film project. A Village Voice critic described one of her installations as "a cross between a skateboard ramp and a fashion-show catwalk.".

July 28: Nina Katchadourian
Nina Katchadourian spends a part of each year on a small island in the Finnish archipelago where she summered as a child. Her work exists in a wide variety of media including photography, sculpture, video and sound. Her projects include "The Mended Spiderweb" series, comprised of using red sewing thread to repair broken spiderwebs and "Natural Car Alarms," in which she replaced car alarms with similar ones made only of bird calls. She currently teaches sculpture at Rhode Island School of Design.