Visiting Artists & Scholars

2023 visiting artist Arantxa Araujo

2023 visiting artist Arantxa Araujo, shown in a neon-colored costume, performing “Dar A Luz” at the Brooklyn Museum

Each year the School of Art invites contemporary artists and scholars to present their research to the public, and conduct studio visits with our Fine Art students. These presentations are co-organized by faculty, staff and students in the Fine Arts Program, with the goal of sharing inspiring work by interdisciplinary practitioners at all stages of their careers, providing exposure to members of our community, and opportunities for kinship and connection. We welcome all members of the public to engage. All our lectures are free and open to the public. 


Experiments in Glitch 

For 2023/24 academic year, the School of Art Visiting Artists and Scholars committee created a topical focus for the presentations. Experiments in Glitch is a yearlong symposium that includes visiting artists, classroom workshops, faculty presentations, and a book reading list that encompasses queer performance art, science and technology in the arts, and nature in the arts through liminal processes, experiences, identities, and spaces. Join us for an inspiring lecture series celebrating new aesthetics. 


Glitch Feminism by Legacy Russell

 

Our community favorite, “Glitch Feminism” (2020), by curator, writer and author Legacy Russell, nominated by Assistant Professor Neil Daigle Orians, has our hearts racing!

We dedicate this year’s Lecture Series in her honor. Inspired by Glitch Feminism, we examine “fault lines, ruptures, places to hide, shifting media, fantastic landscapes, home, safety, and hopeful possibilities.” 

In solidarity,

Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series Committee Members 

“The imaginative architecture of utopia remains ever present in glitch feminism. It gives us home and hope.”

Legacy Russell, Glitch Feminism

Collective Futures Book Presentations

This year, expanding upon our traditional program, we asked our faculty and students to share a selection of their favorite books, in a collective meditation on futurity. We welcome you to visit the DAAP library to read our selections and share in our collective efforts to envision shared futures. View our selections here!

  1. Glitch Feminism – Legacy Russel
  2. Ecofeminism - Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva
  3. Queer Phenomenology - Sarah Ahmed
  4. Ornamentalism – Anne Anlin Cheng

Have a book you swear by? Share it with us!


Faculty Lunch Talks

Join our faculty lunch talks twice each semester to learn about the active and inspiring research and creative work undertaken by our own faculty. Bring your lunch with you – these talks are free and open to the public. 

Artists and Assistant Professors Xia Zhang and Neil Orians presented their latest work in an informal discussion on October 19th.


Artists at Work, Workshop Series

Shane Hatfield  in the Patina Workshop

 

 

Each semester, we invite artists to engage with our students through small and mid-sized workshops on themes as diverse as collective drawing, metal working, new materials, and bioplastics. Sometimes these are organized months in advance, and sometimes just a few days in advance, so stay posted! 

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Past Lecture Recordings

2023-2024 Academic Year

View the recorded lecture in its entirety by clicking on an artists image below.

View the recorded lecture in its entirety by clicking on an artists image below.

View the recorded lecture in its entirety by clicking on an artists image below.