Visiting Artists & Scholars
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.
Fall Semester Lectures
John Knight
- Friday, August 30th
- 12:30-1:50pm
- Aronoff Room 5401
John Knight (b. 1986) is based in London and Montana. Recent exhibitions include Final Hot Desert, London; Monaco, St. Louis; Apparatus Projects, Chicago; BSMNT Gallery, Leipzig; Julius Caesar, Chicago; The American Institute of Thoughts and Feelings, Tucson; and Muscle Beach, Portland. Selected group exhibitions include Final Hot Desert; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Utah; and As It Stands, Los Angeles. Knight co-directed the curatorial projects: Williamson Knight Gallery, Portland; Cherry and Lucic, Portland; H. Klum Fine Art, Portland; and THE PINK HOUSE [Jan. 19, 1995] at Bad Reputation, Los Angeles. He received an MFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland and a BFA from the University of Cincinnati. Knight is represented by Final Hot Desert.
Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series with assistance from the Agnes Croll Blackburne Visiting Artist and Scholars fund and the Elise Zeller Sauer Fund for Fine Arts.
Caroline Tompkins
- Friday, September 30th
- 12:30-1:50pm
- Aronoff Room 5401
Caroline Tompkins received a BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, with her work featured on the BBC, Vogue, and The New York Times among others. Caroline has worked as a photo editor at Bloomberg Businessweek, Vice Magazine, and New York Magazine. She has worked as a professor at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. In 2022, she published her first monograph, Bedfellow with Palm* Studios. Caroline works as a photographer with editorial and commercial clients in New York City.
Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series with assistance from the Agnes Croll Blackburne Visiting Artist and Scholars fund and the Elise Zeller Sauer Fund for Fine Arts.
Migiwa Orimo
- Friday, October 18th
- 12:30-1:50pm
- Aronoff Room 5401
Migiwa Orimo is a Tokyo-born interdisciplinary artist whose practice straddles the fields of art and activism. Orimo primarily engages in installations comprising disparate elements such as text, drawings, photographs, objects, and textiles. As a social justice activist, Orimo facilitates the People's Banner Workshop and collaborates with social justice activists across various causes.
A five-time recipient of the Ohio Arts Council Creativity Excellence Award for her interdisciplinary art projects, Orimo was awarded residencies at the Headlands Art Center (2012) and SPACES Gallery's World Artist Project (2014). Her work has been shown extensively, including at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, DC), San Bernardino Art Museum (CA), apexart (NYC), UNC-Chapel Hill's Allcott Gallery (NC), University of Northern Colorado’s Mariani Gallery (CO), and in Ohio at the Springfield Art Museum, OSU's Urban Arts Space, Riffe Gallery (Columbus), Oberlin College's Baron Gallery, Wave Pool and Weston Art Gallery (Cincinnati).
Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series with assistance from the Agnes Croll Blackburne Visiting Artist and Scholars fund and the Elise Zeller Sauer Fund for Fine Arts.
Harris Rosenblum
- Friday, November 1st
- 12:30-1:50pm
- Aronoff Room 5401
Harris Rosenblum is a sculptor based in New York, NY. He received his MFA from Kent State University in 2022. Recent solo presentations include NADA Miami, Sara’s, Miami, FL; Inorganic Demons, Sara’s NY, NY; and Relics of the Corrupted Blood, Blade Study, NY, NY.
In addition to his own practice, Harris is a founding member of Transcendence Creative, the first creative agency and 360 corporation with a historical materialist approach to brand identity, marketing, and logistics. He is also a contributor and moderator of Do Not Research, a digitally native platform for creative work and research centering contemporary political trends
Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series with assistance from the Agnes Croll Blackburne Visiting Artist and Scholars fund and the Elise Zeller Sauer Fund for Fine Arts.
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. The booklist for 2024-25 will be available soon.
- Glitch Feminism – Legacy Russel
- Ecofeminism - Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva
- Queer Phenomenology - Sarah Ahmed
- 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.
Fall dates will be available soon.
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
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.
