Visiting Artists/Critics Program
The primary goal of the Visiting Artists/Critics Program is to educate and foster a greater understanding and appreciation of contemporary art through dialogue. Artists of national significance, working in all media, are invited to the Department of Art to present a public lecture and meet with graduate students in seminars and for individual critique. Undergraduate and graduate students are welcome to attend workshops and lectures and may receive credit for participation through enrollment in ( ArtS 3420) Visiting Artist Workshop or (Arts 8420 ) Visiting Artists Program .
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures are held in the In-Flux space, room E110, Regis Center for Art. All events are free and open to the public.
Visiting Artists/Critics Programming 2007-2008
- HOCK E AYE VI Edgar Heap of Birds, Visiting Artist
- Visiting artist whose work frequently draws upon language in form and content, history, and memory. His work engages audiences in a conversation about forgotten or subversive relationships.
- Lecture 7 pm, Thursday, September 13, In-Flux, Regis
- Lowery Stokes Sims, Visiting Scholar
- Visiting scholar who is the former Executive Director of the Studio Museum in Harlem. Prior to 2000, she was the Curator of Modern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she worked since 1972.
- Lecture 7 pm, Wednesday, September 19, In-Flux, Regis
- New Ethnic Notions: Race and Identity in a Global Arena
- Nikki S. Lee, Visiting Artist
- Korean-born, New York City-based artist, photographer and filmmaker who has made it her project to infiltrate and mimic the subcultures of American life.
- Lecture 7 pm, Thursday October 18, In-Flux, Regis
- Michael Krueger, Visiting Artist
- Visiting artist who works in different media, including printmaking, drawing, and digital arts. His lithographs and colored pencil drawings have been described as existing someplace where naivety meets genius.
- Lecture 7 pm, Thursday, November 1, In-Flux, Regis
- Lisa Lapinski, Visiting Artist
- Visiting artist who makes elaborate sculptures that embody a kind of cognitive dissonance. Artforum critic Bruce Hainley credits Lapinski with "providing new thought about what a sculpture might be."
- Lecture 7 pm, Thursday, November 8, In-Flux, Regis
- Lowery Stokes Sims, Visiting Scholar
- Lecture 7 pm, Wednesday, December 5, Weisman Art Museum
- Aesthetics or Utility? Art Engaging the Environment
- Tony Hepburn, Visiting Artist
- Artist-in-Residence and head of the Ceramics Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Hepburn was educated at the Camberwell College of Art and London University. Before coming to Cranbrook he was Professor of Ceramics and head of the Division of Art and Design at the New York College of Ceramics at Alfred University. He has also taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Carnegie Mellon University, and was the Principle Lecturer at Lanchester University in Coventry, England.
- Lecture 7 pm, Thursday, February 14, In-Flux, Regis
- Amy Youngs, Visiting Artist
- An artist using electronics, kinetics, sound, insects, plants, and pixels to create art about the complex relationship between technology and our changing concepts of nature and self.
- Lecture 7 pm, Wednesday, March 12, In-Flux, Regis
- Matt Ryle, Visiting Artist
- Visiting artist will be giving a lecture titled "from mud, a blade." There will be a screening of Matthew Barney's film, De Lama Lamina. Ryle is Matthew Barney's production designer for the Cremaster Cycle and on current projects. He is in charge of developing and executing all of Barney's work.
- Lecture 7 pm, Thursday, April 10, In-Flux, Regis
Recent Visitors:
- Doug Aitken
- Siah Armajani
- Xu Bing
- Christopher Brown
- Larry Brown
- Squeak Carnwath
- Sue Coe
- Cora Cohen
- Matt Coolidge
- Betsy Damon
- Arthur Danto
- Mark Dion
- Kelly Dobson
- Rochelle Feinstein
- Bill Fick
- Harrell Fletcher
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Suzi Gablik
- Lauren Greenfield
- Harmony Hammond
- Mark Harris
- David Hickey
- Gary Hill
- Alfredo Jarr
- Bill Jensen
- Eduardo Kac
- Gwendolyn Knight
- Susan Lacy
- Cay Lang
- Robert Lawlor
- Jacob Lawrence
- Catherine Murphy
- Wangechi Mutu
- Saul Ostrow
- Kosen Ohtsubo
- Sabina Ott
- Judy Pfaff
- Adrian Piper
- Dario Robleto
- Harry Roseman
- Annabeth Rosen
- Stephen Rosenberg
- John Scott
- Sandy Skoglund
- Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
- Richard Tsao
- Hamza Walker
- Patti Warshina
- Barbara Westman
- Bill Witherspoon
- Linda Yablonsky
Contact:
- Christine Baeumler
- Visiting Artist Committee
- Department of Art
- Regis Center for Art
- baeum002@umn.edu
