The Visiting Artist Lecture Series, presented by the Department of Art and the Center for Art Research, introduces students and the community-at-large to a broad range of international interdisciplinary practitioners including artists, curators, critics, designers, and historians. The department is committed to inviting innovative and prominent professionals to speak about their influences and processes within their current practice as part of the public lecture series and also to engage with students in small groups or individual studio critiques.
Lectures are live streamed and the videos are archived on YouTube.
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University of Oregon 2023–24 Visiting Artist Lecture Series
Presented by the Department of Art and Center for Art Research
Lectures begin at 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time in Lawrence Hall, Room 115, 1190 Franklin Boulevard, Eugene, OR 97403 and are also live-streamed and archived on YouTube.
Fall Term Lectures:
Thursday, October 5: Aurora Tang
Thursday, October 19: Motomichi Nakamura
Thursday, October 26: Gracelee Lawrence
Thursday, November 16: Leslie Jones
Winter Term Lectures:
Thursday, January 18: Ari Melenciano
Thursday, February 15: Sandy Rodriguez, Policing Justice Lecture Series
Wednesday, February 21: Alfredo Jaar, Policing Justice Lecture Series
Thursday, February 22: Jesse Harrod
Monday, February 26: Robert Trafford, Policing Justice Lecture Series
Thursday, March 7: Julian Watts
The Policing Justice Lecture Series is co-presented by the Department of Art and the Department of the History of Art and Architecture and is co-sponsored in part by the Oregon Humanities Center Endowment for Public Outreach in the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities, The Mark Sponenburgh Endowment, The Sally Claire Haseltine Endowed Fund in Art History, and the Davis Family Art Endowment.
Spring Term Lectures:
Thursday, April 11: Kahlil Robert Irving
Thursday, April 18: Tallmadge Doyle, Laverne Krause Lectures and Exhibitions Endowment
Thursday, May 2: Angela Hennessy, George and Matilda Fowler Lecture
Thursday, May 9: Dionne Lee
“Exploring Fear, Curiosity, and Shared Connections across Artistic Media”
October 19
“Sculpting Consciousness: Mythopoesis, AI, and the Symphony of Cultural Metacognition”
January 18
"Forensic Architecture: Art and Activism Against State Violence"
February 26
"Exploring the Intersection of Art, Craft, and Design Through Contemporary Woodcarving”
March 7
