Discover the latest developments in fine arts, craft, and design at free public lectures by some of the most prominent artists, critics, and gallery and museum directors!
The Visiting Artist Colloquium, hosted by the School of Education’s Art Department, is held on Wednesdays from 5 – 6:15 p.m. during the academic year, and is free and open to the public. The lectures are available online via Blackboard.
Lectures coming up include:
- Linda Christianson (Feb. 10), an independent studio potter who lives and works in rural Minnesota, searching for qualities that are fairly straight forward yet elusive in her work. She is interested in a pot that does its duty well yet can stand on its own as a visual object. Woodfiring offers the forms a quiet surface that hopefully retains the essence of the clay itself. These pots are not sculpture; they seem to act more like engaging tools than anything else. One of her goals is to make a better cup each day.
- Kevin J. Miyazaki (Feb. 17), an artist and photographer based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His artwork focuses on issues of ethnicity, migration and place, often addressing family history and the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War ll.
- Jes Fan (Feb. 24), an artist born in Canada and raised in Hong Kong, currently based in Brooklyn. Speculating on the fraught intersection between biology and identity, Fan works with biological substances such that of estrogen, testosterone, melanin or blood, as well as more traditional sculptural materials such as glass, silicone, and resin, to create expanded sculptures that emerge from a haptic inquiry into the concept of otherness, kinship, queerness, and diasporic politics. They navigate the slippery complexities of identity as guided by the signifiers embedded in their mediums.
- Peter Burr (Mar. 3), an artist from Brooklyn. A master of computer animation with a gift for creating images and environments that hover on the boundary between abstraction and figuration, Burr has devoted himself to exploring the concept of an endlessly mutating labyrinth. His practice often engages with tools of the video game industry in the form of immersive cinematic artworks.
Learn more — including about other artists who will be featured during the spring 2021 semester — here.