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Visiting Artist Series
About the Visiting Artist Series
The College of DuPage Visiting Artist Series provides opportunities for the community to interact with leaders in the field of contemporary art, design and culture. Through lectures, conversations and workshops, a diverse range of art professionals provide students with new perspectives on contemporary artistic practices.
The series is a collaboration between the Cleve Carney Museum of Art and the Fine Arts, Architecture and Photography programs. All lectures are free and open to the public. Times and Locations are subject to change.
Past lectures are available to view in our video library.
Speaker Schedule 2023-24
INDIA JOHNSON
COD Visiting Artist in Residence, Sept 1-30
Lecture Sept 20, 2023, 1-2pm — CHC 1020
FUTURE FIRM
COD Visiting Architect
Lecture Oct 18, 2023, 11am-12pm — Playhouse Theatre
ALANA FERGUSON
Visiting Artist
Lecture Nov 15, 2023, 11am-12pm — Belushi Auditorium
DYLAN MINER
Visiting Artist
Lecture Feb 13, 2024, 11am-12pm — Belushi Auditorium
CHRIS SANCOMB
Visiting Artist in Residence, March 2-16
Lecture Mar 6, 2024, 1-2pm —Playhouse Theatre.
JAPHETH ASIEDU-KWARTENG
Visiting Artist
Lecture April 17, 2024, 1-2pm — Belushi Auditorium
Upcoming Speakers 2023-24
Past Speakers 2023-24
JAPHETH ASIEDU-KWARTENG
Visiting Artist
Lecture:
4/17/24, 1-2pm — Belushi Auditorium
Japheth Asiedu-Kwarteng works primarily in ceramics to make an imminently contemporary statement that exemplifies an approach which transcends form and questions the relationship between tradition and modernity, cultural exchange, and tension. He has exhibited extensively locally and internationally, including 2022 and 2021 NCECA Annual. He is a member of NCECA, IAC and Artaxis. Among several publications and other scholarly works, Japheth was a presenter at 2021 and 2023 NCECA Conferences respectively. Japheth holds a BA Industrial Art (Ceramics option) from KNUST, Ghana, and an MFA in Ceramics from Illinois State University, USA. He has works in the permanent collections of the University Galleries, Normal, Illinois and other private collectors in the United States.
CHRIS SANCOMB
Visiting Artist in Residence, March 2-16, 2024
Lecture:
3/6/24, 1-2pm — Playhouse Theatre
Chris Sancomb is an interdisciplinary artist, designer and educator who explores the intersections of creative practice through a wide range of media. His socially engaged design practice is focused on creating inclusive, interactive, and hands-on community based design collaborations that support varied learning styles, promote empathy, and help develop creative confidence. His studio research is focused on creating visual experiences that represent unobservable phenomena within the architecture of the universe. This work represents an expression of wonder at the elusive magnitude of Space, and serves as a way of obtaining knowledge and understanding through inquiry, synthesis, material exploration and making.
DYLAN MINER
Visiting Artist
Lecture:
2/13/24, 11am-12pm — Belushi Auditorium
Dylan AT Miner is an artist, activist, and scholar. He holds a PhD in Arts of the Américas from The University of New Mexico. He is currently Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan. Previously, he served as Dean and Professor in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities (RCAH) at Michigan State University. As an artist, he has hung nearly 30 solo art exhibitions, as well as participated in more than 115 group exhibitions. He is a founding member of the artist collective Justseeds. His book Creating Aztlán: Chicano Art, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Lowriding Across Turtle Island (2014) was published by the University of Arizona Press. Born and raised in Michigan, Miner is a citizen of the Métis Nation of Ontario.
Visiting Artist Lectures Video Library
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As part of the "Hooking Up: Meet The Collection" exhibition artist Britni Mara discusses her work. Filmed in the museum during the reception for the exhibition.
As part of the "Hooking Up: Meet The Collection" exhibition artist Britni Mara discusses her work. Filmed in the museum during the reception for the exhibition.
Muralist Jeffrey Swider-Peltz talks about the inspiration for his work and leads a drawing exercise at Common Good Cocktail House.
Dustin Hunt is a multi-disciplinary creative and teacher with over ten years of experience working in traditional and alternative schools.
Dustin Hunt is a multi-disciplinary creative and teacher with over ten years of experience working in traditional and alternative schools. Before obtaining his Bachelors of Fine Art from Michigan State University, Dustin spent years exploring graffiti culture as a student and practitioner. After graduating with his BFA and Teaching Certification, armed with a pedagogy shaped by hip-hop, Hunt spent years working in public schools across the country, engaging learners in relevant, creative ways. In 2017 Hunt launched Muralmatics to bridge his creative skillset with his commitment to service. He began facilitating community-based, student-centered, and commissioned mural projects for public, private, and corporate organizations. Hunt continues to develop and paint large-scale murals that beautify communities as an act of service.
Instagram, Facebook, Twitter @muralmatics
Artist Ayanah Moor discussing her work during an artist talk at the College of DuPage. This talk was presented in conjunction with Moor's exhibition "I Wish I Could Be You More Often" at the Cleve Carney Museum of Art.
Artist Ayanah Moor discussing her work during an artist talk at the College of DuPage. This talk was presented in conjunction with Moor's exhibition "I Wish I Could Be You More Often" at the Cleve Carney Museum of Art.
Rooted on the West side of Chicago, Jon Veal has forged a Transdisciplinary practice that utilizes installation, writing, painting, drawing, and performance.
Rooted on the West side of Chicago, Jon Veal has forged a Transdisciplinary practice that utilizes installation, writing, painting, drawing, and performance.
Primarily focused on the capacity of symbolic gesture as a means of strategic tool; Veal uses his artistic agency as a platform for social engagement and discourse. Veal has exhibited and performed at Chicago Artist Department, Silent Funny, William Hill Gallery, Homewood Science Center, Chicago Cultural Ball, and the Terrain Biennial.
Veal holds the honor of being the first African American Artist in Residence at Oak Park Public Library. In 2019 Jon also held the Field/Work Artist in Residence at Chicago Artist Coalition. In 2020 he became a recipient of the 3Arts “Make A Wave" grant. In 2021 Veal was invited to join the Resource Global Chicago Cohort in addition to being the 2021 Latham Fellow at IIT institute of Design.
Nyugen E. Smith is a Caribbean-American interdisciplinary artist based in Jersey City, NJ. Through performance, found object sculpture, mixed media drawing, painting, video, photo and writing, Nyugen deepens his knowledge of historical and present-day conditions of Black African descendants in the diaspora. Trauma, spiritual practices, language, violence, memory, architecture, and climate change are primary concerns in his practice.
Nyugen holds a BA, Fine Art from Seton Hall University and an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has been presented at the Museum of Latin American Art, Peréz Art Museum, Museum of Cultural History, Norway, Nordic Black Theater, Norway, Newark Museum, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, among others. Nyugen is the recipient of the Leonore Annenberg Performing and Visual Arts Fund, Franklin Furnace Fund, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship, and Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant.
Vladimir Radutny was born in Nikolayev, Ukraine in 1978. In 1989, his family arrived in Chicago as part of an immigration wave of Russian Jewish refugees from the former Soviet Union
Vladimir Radutny was born in Nikolayev, Ukraine in 1978. In 1989, his family arrived in Chicago as part of an immigration wave of Russian Jewish refugees from the former Soviet Union. He earned his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Architecture from The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. In 2008, Vladimir founded his Chicago-based architecture and design studio, during which time he has held teaching appointments at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture where he continues to teach. Vladimir’s multi-disciplinary architecture practice focuses on innovative design solutions that challenge the conventional interpretations of space, function, and material use. He believes in Architecture as an art form with capacity to not just alter space, but to change perceptions, feelings and habits, transcending the workplace, home, or in-between.
Emily Schroeder Willis received her BFA from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and her MFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Emily Schroeder Willis received her BFA from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and her MFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She has been an artist-in-residence/visiting artist at the Archie Bray Foundation in Montana, the Zentrum für Keramik in Berlin, Germany, the Alberta College of Art and Design in Canada and Watershed Center for the Ceramics Arts in Maine. Her work has been exhibited in the Dubai Design Fair in the UAE, the Kansas City Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, the Ohio Craft Museum in Wooster, the Ralph Arnold Gallery in Chicago, and many others. Currently, she lives in Chicago where she is an Assistant Professor, Adjunct at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Tony Fitzpatrick is a Chicago-based artist best known for his multimedia collages, printmaking, paintings, and drawings. Fitzpatrick's work is inspired by Chicago street culture, cities he has traveled to, children's books, tattoo designs, and folk art. Fitzpatrick has authored or illustrated eight books of art and poetry, and is a regular columnist for NewCity Magazine.
Tony Fitzpatrick is a Chicago-based artist best known for his multimedia collages, printmaking, paintings, and drawings. Fitzpatrick's work is inspired by Chicago street culture, cities he has traveled to, children's books, tattoo designs, and folk art. Fitzpatrick has authored or illustrated eight books of art and poetry, and is a regular columnist for NewCity Magazine. Fitzpatrick's art appears in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and the National Museum of American Art in Washington, DC. The Neville Brothers' album Yellow Moon and the Steve Earle's albums El Corazon and The Revolution Starts Now also feature Fitzpatrick's art. Before making a living as an artist, Fitzpatrick worked as a radio host, bartender, boxer, construction worker, and film and stage actor. Fitzpatrick can be seen in the Amazon original series “The Patriot” as well as his studio and art space the Dime On Western Ave in Chicago
D Rosen is an interdisciplinary artist who exhibits and publishes their work nationally and internationally. They operate from the position that questions of animality are not binary but rather a tangle of ecologies and richly complicated identities, framed by culture.
D Rosen is an interdisciplinary artist who exhibits and publishes their work nationally and internationally. They operate from the position that questions of animality are not binary but rather a tangle of ecologies and richly complicated identities, framed by culture. Rosen received a BFA from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design in 2011, an MFA from the University of Chicago in 2013, and was an artist in residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2018. Upcoming shows include Exgirlfriend (Berlin,Germany), Roots & Culture (Chicago, IL), and UNCC Rowe Galleries (Charlotte, NC). This fall, Rosen’s essay on interspecies scent rituals will be published in Olfactory Art and the Political in an Age of Resistance edited by Gwenn-Aël Lynn and Debra Riley Parr for Routledge (New York + London).
Jennifer Newsom and Tom Carruthers are architects, artists, and principals of Dream The Combine. They have produced numerous site-specific installations in the U.S. and Canada that explore metaphor, perceptual uncertainties, and the boundary between real and illusory space.
Jennifer Newsom and Tom Carruthers are architects, artists, and principals of Dream The Combine. They have produced numerous site-specific installations in the U.S. and Canada that explore metaphor, perceptual uncertainties, and the boundary between real and illusory space. They are winners of the 2020-2021 J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize and the 2018 Young Architects Program at MoMA PS1 for their installation Hide & Seek. Jennifer and Tom are both graduates of the Yale School of Architecture.
Dream the Combine has exhibited at MoMA and MoMA PS1 in New York, NY, and in Seattle WA, East Haddam CT, Vancouver BC, Rome Italy, Minneapolis MN and St. Paul MN. Their work has been published widely, including Metropolis Magazine, Architect Magazine, Log, Architectural Record, The Architects Newspaper, and Dezeen. They are currently at work on upcoming installations in Minneapolis MN, Philadelphia and Wilkinsburg PA, and Columbus IN.
Erin Wiersma's artistic practice focuses on the body's capacity to absorb and respond to an environment. Based in the Flint Hills of Kansas, she is creating works on paper with the land at the Konza Prairie Biological Station, one of the few remaining protected grasslands in the world. This body of work has fostered recent interdisciplinary and community-based collaborations. Erin is represented by Robischon Gallery in Denver, Colorado and Galerie Wehlau in Munich, Germany. Her work has been featured in Minding Nature at the Center for Humans & Nature, OnVerge at the CUE Foundation, Art21 Online Magazine, and Two Coats of Paint. Erin received her BA from Messiah College and completed her MFA at the University of Connecticut. She is an Associate Professor of Art at Kansas State University.
Terry Conrad is interested in the community aspects of printmaking and the trace materials found within the landscape. In 2014, he was awarded a grant to develop the Adirondack Forum, a collapsible venue made of old printing blocks and other found wood that functioned as a meeting place, performance space and classroom. In 2018, he joined a Scientific Research Cruise on the Robert Gordon Sproul, to sample benthic foraminifera in the Santa Barbara Basin on a trip funded by the National Science Foundation.
Conrad is a recipient of the 2017 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Drawing, Printmaking and Book Arts, the 2015 and 2016 Grant Wood Fellowship in Printmaking, residencies at The Elizabeth Murray Residency (New York), Frans Masereel Centrum (Belgium), Penland School of Craft (North Carolina) and the Vermont Studio Center. He received his BFA from Alfred University and his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Conrad is an Assistant Professor in Printmaking at the University of Iowa.
Artist, activist, and environmentalist, John Sabraw was born in Lakenheath, England. Sabraw’s paintings, drawings and collaborative installations are produced in an eco-conscious manner, working toward a fully sustainable practice.
Sabraw works with environmental engineer and Ohio University Professor Guy Riefler to remediate streams polluted by abandoned coal mine seepage, in southeastern Ohio. At the lab, they extract iron oxide from the toxic acid mine drainage (AMD) and neutralize the water’s acidity. They then return the resulting clean water to the streams. The team creates pigment from the iron oxide, ranging in hues from yellow to brown to red to black.
Sabraw’s art is part of numerous collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Honolulu, the Elmhurst Museum in Illinois, Emprise Bank, and Accenture Corp. He has most recently been featured in TED, Smithsonian, New Scientist, London, and Great Big Stories. Sabraw is a Professor of Art at Ohio University where he chairs the Painting + Drawing program.
Terry Conrad: Object Permanance
Panel moderated by David Ouellette.
Krista Franklin is a writer and visual artist, the author Too Much Midnight (Haymarket Books, 2020), the artist book Under the Knife (Candor Arts, 2018), and the chapbook Study of Love & Black Body (Willow Books, 2012).
Krista Franklin is a writer and visual artist, the author Too Much Midnight (Haymarket Books, 2020), the artist book Under the Knife (Candor Arts, 2018), and the chapbook Study of Love & Black Body (Willow Books, 2012). She is a Helen and Tim Meier Foundation for the Arts Achievement Awardee, and a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant. Her visual art has exhibited at Poetry Foundation, Konsthall C, Rootwork Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Studio Museum in Harlem, Chicago Cultural Center, National Museum of Mexican Art, and the set of 20th Century Fox’s Empire. She has been published in Poetry, Black Camera, The Offing, Vinyl, and a number of anthologies and artist books.
Paola Aguirre Serrano is founder of BORDERLESS — a Chicago-based urban design and research practice focused on cultivating collaborative design agency through interdisciplinary projects. With emphasis on exchange and communication across disciplines, Borderless explores creative civic design and engagement interventions that address the complexity of urban systems and social equity by looking at intersections between architecture, urban design, infrastructure, landscape, planning and community participatory processes. Paola is an active educator, currently teaching architecture at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
She has been acknowledged by Next City Vanguard and Impact Design Hub’s 40 Under 40, Newcity Design 50: Who Shapes Chicago, Field Foundation Civic Leader for Racial Equity, Chicago United for Equity Fellow, and recently appointed by the City of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot as Commissioner of Chicago Landmarks and member of the Cultural Advisory Council. Paola received a Masters of Architecture in Urban Design from the Harvard School of Design.
Misty Gamble’s life-size fragmented figurative, ceramic sculptures and installations focus attention on issues surrounding femininity and challenge conventional standards of morality, normalcy, and propriety.
Misty Gamble’s life-size fragmented figurative, ceramic sculptures and installations focus attention on issues surrounding femininity and challenge conventional standards of morality, normalcy, and propriety. Misty is the recipient of a number of awards, grants, and fellowships including awards from the National Conference for the Education of Ceramic Arts, the Ellice T. Johnston Foundation, Ruth Chenven Foundation, Martin Wong Foundation, Marin Community Foundation, Windgate Foundation, Byrdcliffe Fellowship, Ansley Park Fellowship. Misty has been awarded residencies and fellowships at Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, New Harmony Clay Project, the Armory Art Center, Watershed, SACI Florence, Woodstock Byrdcliffe, Hambidge Center for Arts and Sciences, and Vermont Studio Center among others. Gamble is the co-founder of Studio Nong: International Sculpture Collective and Residency Program which travels to China and the US, focusing on clay figurative sculpture. Misty was a full time Assistant Professor at the Kansas City Art Institute for nearly a decade and has taught throughout Italy.
Taking on New roles, Kansas City Star
A World of Abject Beauty, Kansas City Star
Femininity Seen Through Ceramics, Darkly. Rebecca Dubay
Darby English is the Carl Darling Buck Professor of Art History and Director of the Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture at the University of Chicago. He is also associate faculty in the University’s Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture.
His scholarship focuses on ways that fine art and popular culture produced since 1964 have prepared us to welcome—or reject—the passing of difference as we have known it. English is author or coeditor of six books, including three monographs: To Describe a Life: Notes from the Intersection of Art and Race Terror (Yale, 2019), 1971: A Year in the Life of Color (University of Chicago, 2016), and How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness (MIT, 2007).
Ayanah Moor (b 1973, Norfolk, VA) is an artist living and working in Chicago. Through her paintings, prints, drawings and performance, Moor operates within a visual field where notions of blackness and gender identity take shape. She utilizes existing material and cultural artifacts to generate alternative histories, often repositioning the subject as a corrective gesture or to create counter narratives. Vintage advertisements, athletic competition, reimagined slogans, and healing practices have fueled recent projects. Her work engages subversive and demonstrative displays of blackness that locate love, fear, myth and desire.
Moor received a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and MFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University. Her exhibitions include the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the DePaul Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; the Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives—USC Libraries; Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles; Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Auckland; and Proyecto ‘ace, Buenos Aires.
Based in New York, Mary Mattingly studies public partnerships for water infrastructure, commons management, mobile architecture, and has built floating eco habitats. In 2016, she launched a floating food forest on a barge called “Swale”, a social sculpture where people are invited to pick food from an edible landscape in order to circumvent public land laws in New York City that disallow public foraging. Mattingly recently transplanted a group of edible palm trees from agricultural zone 10 to zone 5 in upstate New York; the introduced flora accounts for predictions in climatological shifts and how that may affect agricultural zones. Mattingly’s artwork has been featured in The New York Times, Le Monde, New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and on CBS, BBC, NBC, and PBS's Art21.
MacArthur Fellowship winner Trevor Paglen is an artist whose work spans image-making, sculpture, investigative journalism, writing, engineering, and numerous other disciplines. Among his chief concerns are learning how to see the historical moment we live in and developing the means to imagine alternative futures. He has launched an artwork into distant orbit around Earth in collaboration with Creative Time and MIT, contributed research and cinematography to the Academy Award-winning film Citizenfour, and created a radioactive public sculpture for the exclusion zone in Fukushima, Japan. Trevor Paglen’s work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Smithsonian American Art Museum; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York among others. Paglen holds a BA from UC Berkeley, an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in Geography from UC Berkeley.
Alice Hargrave in conversation with Gavin Van Horn from Center for Humans and Nature and Stephanie Touzalin from Willowbrook Wildlife Center, moderated by David Ouellette
Alice Hargrave in conversation with Gavin Van Horn from Center for Humans and Nature and Stephanie Touzalin from Willowbrook Wildlife Center, moderated by David Ouellette
Alice Hargrave, a photo based artist working in Chicago, IL, incorporates sound and video within layered installations of her photographic imagery in space. Her work reflects on the notion of impermanence: environmental insecurity, habitat loss, and species extinctions. Hargrave recently collaborated with The Cornell Lab of Ornithology NY, to create her widely exhibited project Last Calls/Pink Noise— portraits of threatened birds and other species using sound waves of their calls in the wild. Hargrave’s work is included in permanent collections such as The Museum of Contemporary Photography, The Art Institute of Chicago Artist Book Collection, and The Ruttenberg Collection. Her work has been exhibited at The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Yale University Art Gallery, The Smart Museum, The Tweed Museum of Art, Lanzhou China Foto Festival, The Griffin Museum of Photography, among others. Her work has appeared in Huffington Post, BBC News, and ARTNET. Formerly a full time professor at Columbia College Chicago, Hargrave has decided to teach part time while pursuing commissions and conservation work.
Emilee Lord is a visual and performing artist. She investigates the multiple ways through which a drawing can be made, performed, and defined. She creates quiet, sparse, and repetitive or ritualized long durational performances, installations, works on paper, and dance films. Her current research explores ideas of accumulation, solitude, memory, and drawing as a performative act. At the core of this research is the following question: When is a drawing?
She received her BA from Bennington College, in sculpture and dance - 2004 and her MFA in Fiber from Cranbrook Academy of Art - 2007. She has been an artist in residence at Vermont Studio Center, Santa Fe Art Institute, Jentel Artist Residency, and SIM in Reykjavik, Iceland. As a Visiting Artist, she has taught and lectured at the College of DuPage, and Pratt Institute of Art.
She has performed and exhibited both nationally and internationally including Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Reykjavik, Reggio Emilia, Santa Fe, and Toronto.
She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Born in Bogotá, Colombia, Paola Cabal has lived in Chicago since 2001. A site specific installation artist, Cabal is best known for her rigorous observational studies of daylight over time-- movements the artist photographs on site, then paints directly into spaces trompe l’oeil-style, using spray paint. As an artist and educator, Cabal is interested in the intersection between physics and perception and co-teaches a course called “Articulating Time and Space” alongside astrophysicist Kathryn Schaffer at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Cabal has received a fellowship from the Illinois Arts Council, an Individual Artist award from the Richard H Driehaus Foundation, a joint commission for the Chicago Transit Authority and the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, and a residency at the Chicago Cultural Center. She has been featured in articles for Chicago Woman Magazine, F News Magazine, and the Chicago Sun Times; recent reviews of her work can be found in the Chicago Tribune, Art News Online, and NewCity Art.
Aden Kumler is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Art History and Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago and an affiliated faculty member of the University of Chicago’s Medieval Studies program, Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality, and Divinity School.
Aden Kumler is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Art History and Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago and an affiliated faculty member of the University of Chicago’s Medieval Studies program, Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality, and Divinity School. She earned a BA degree from the University of Chicago, an MA from the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, a PhD in the History of Art & Architecture at Harvard University, and a Licentiate in Mediaeval Studies from the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto.Her first book, Translating Truth: Ambitious Images and Religious Knowledge in Late Medieval France and England, was published by Yale University Press in 2011. With Christopher Lakey, she co-edited a special 2012 issue of Gesta devoted to materiality and meaning in medieval art. She is the inaugural co-editor of the International Center of Medieval Art’s new “Viewpoints” book series, a new forum for experimental books on medieval art history, co-published by the International Center of Medieval Art and Penn State University Press.
Mie Kongo grew up in the outskirts of Tokyo, Japan and now lives and works in Evanston, IL, where she makes multidisciplinary work including ceramic sculptures, installations, 2D work, and porcelain designed objects.
Mie Kongo grew up in the outskirts of Tokyo, Japan and now lives and works in Evanston, IL, where she makes multidisciplinary work including ceramic sculptures, installations, 2D work, and porcelain designed objects. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including recent exhibitions at the Arts and Literature Laboratory in Madison, WI, 4th Ward Project Space in Chicago, Grunwald Gallery of Art at Indiana University Bloomington, Cleve Carney Art Gallery in Glen Ellyn, IL, and the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago. Her residencies include Shigaraki Ceramics Cultural Center in Japan, the European Ceramic Work Centre in the Netherlands, and Intonation Deidesheim in Germany. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA in Ceramics from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the ceramics department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Nick Cave is a Messenger, Artist, and Educator working between the visual and performing arts through a wide range of mediums inclusive of sculpture, installation, video, sound, and performance. His solo exhibitions have expanded globally from the United States through France, Africa, Denmark, Asia, South America, and the Caribbean. He has been described as a Renaissance artist and says of himself "I have found my middle and now ... working toward what I am leaving behind." Cave received his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute; he also works as a professor at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Edra Soto is a Puerto-Rican born artist, curator, educator, and co-director of the outdoor project space, The Franklin.
Edra Soto is a Puerto-Rican born artist, curator, educator, and co-director of the outdoor project space, The Franklin. Soto has exhibited extensively at venues including El Museo del Barrio, NY; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art's satellite, The Momentary, AK; Albright-Knox Northland, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago, IL; Smart Museum, IL and the Abrons Arts Center, NY. Recently, Soto completed a large-scale public art commission titled “Screenhouse”, currently on view at Millennium Park in Chicago. The artist has attended residency programs at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Beta-Local, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Residency, Headlands Center for the Arts, Project Row Houses and Art Omi, among others. Soto has been awarded the Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship, the Illinois Arts Council Agency Fellowship, the inaugural Foundwork Artist Prize and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, among others. Between 2019-2020, Soto exhibited and traveled to Brazil, Puerto Rico, and Cuba as part of the MacArthur Foundation’s International Connections Fund. Soto holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree from Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Diseño de Puerto Rico. The artist lives and works in Chicago.
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Sampada Aranke (PhD, Performance Studies) is an Assistant Professor in the Art History, Theory, Criticism Department at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. Her research interests include performance theories of embodiment, visual culture, and black cultural and aesthetic theory.
Sampada Aranke (PhD, Performance Studies) is an Assistant Professor in the Art History, Theory, Criticism Department at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. Her research interests include performance theories of embodiment, visual culture, and black cultural and aesthetic theory. Her work has been published in e-flux, Artforum, Art Journal, ASAP/J, October, and Trans-Scripts: An Interdisciplinary Online Journal in the Humanities and Social Sciences at UC Irvine. She has written catalogue essays for Sadie Barnette, Rashid Johnson, Faith Ringgold, Kambui Olujimi, Sable Elyse Smith, and Zachary Fabri. She is the recipient of the 2021 Art Journal award for her article Blackouts and Other Visual Escapes. She's currently working on her book manuscript entitled Death's Futurity: The Visual Life of Black Power.
Tyler Lotz’s sculptures and vessels have been shown in solo and group exhibitions at venues including the Elmhurst Art Museum – Elmhurst, Illinois, Harvey/Meadows Gallery - Aspen, Co, Dubhe Carreño Gallery - Chicago IL, Cervini Haas Gallery/Gallery Materia - Scottsdale, AZ, Cross-Mackenzie Gallery - Washington DC, Franklin Parrasch Gallery - NYC, Santa Fe Clay – NM, The Clay Studio – Philadelphia, PA, and SOFA Chicago. His work has been presented abroad at The First World Ceramic Biennale Korea and 2010 Vallauris Biennale Internationale in Vallauris, France. Tyler’s work has been acquired by collections including the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, in Missouri, and the Icheon World Ceramic Center in Korea. Publications including Ceramics Monthly, American Craft, Studio Potter and the Clay In Art International Yearbook have featured his work. He has been an artist in residence at the Archie Bray Foundation and the Red Lodge Clay Center in Montana, as well as the Watershed Center for Ceramics in Newcastle, Maine. In 2010, he was one of 12 international artists invited to make and exhibit work in Walbrzych, Poland as a member of the XXXIV International Ceramics Symposium “Porcelain Another Way.” Having received his BFA from Penn State and his MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Tyler is currently a Professor teaching at Illinois State University.
Katherine is an architect, educator and founder of Latent Design, a practice at the intersection of architecture and community development creating social, economic and environmental impact beyond the building.
Katherine is an architect, educator and founder of Latent Design, a practice at the intersection of architecture and community development creating social, economic and environmental impact beyond the building. Leveraging design as a tool to make the invisible forces impacting a project visible through architecture, the firm’s collaborations range from small-scale tactical interventions, new construction community buildings, adaptive reuse, neighborhood master plans and design speculations. She is winner of the 2013 American Institute of Architects Young Architects Honor Award, 2014 Crain's Chicago 40 Under 40, teaches at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Northwestern University.
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