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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2022–23 Visiting Artist Lecture Series
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:
Tuesday, October 11: Natasha Ginwala, “Between Waves and Sea Change”
Thursday, October 13: Carmen Winant, Co-sponsored by UO Libraries
Thursday, October 20: Jen Stark
Thursday, October 27: Liz Magor, George and Matilda Fowler lecture
Thursday, November 10: Marie Watt, Co-sponsored by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
Thursday, November 17: Kate McNamara, Made possible by the Gilkey Foundation
Winter Term Lectures:
Thursday, January 19: Margaret Lee, "Untethering"
Thursday, February 9: Edie Fake, "An Impossible Place," Davis Family Lecture
Thursday, February 23: Elissa Auther, "Queer Maximalism"
Thursday, March 2: Salvador Jiménez-Flores, "Nepantla"
Thursday, March 9: Alex Da Corte, "Fun World"
Spring Term Lectures:
Thursday, April 13: Naama Tsabar, "Artist Talk"
Thursday, April 20: Jim Drain, "Making Time: Craft-Based Sculpture," Made possible by the Gilkey Foundation
Thursday, May 11: Yoonmi Nam, "Generally Meant to Be Discarded"
Thursday, May 25: Julia Fish, "home / work: paintings, picture-thinking & notes in progress"