Oct 29 11:30 am

School of Art Visiting Speaker Series

Jessica L. Horton is an associate professor of modern and contemporary Native North American art at the University of Delaware. Her first book,  Art for an Undivided Earth: The American Indian Movement Generation (2017), traces the impact of Native American land-based struggles on artists working internationally since the 1970s. Her second book, Earth Diplomacy: Indigenous American Art and Reciprocity, 1953–1973 (2024) examines how artists mobilized Indigenous cultures of diplomacy to place the earth at the center of Cold War international relations. Her scholarship has been supported by the Clark Art Institute, the Getty Research Center, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Book Award, among other honors.  

Oct 29 3:00 pm

School of Art Visiting Speaker Series

Teresa Baker (Mandan/Hidatsa, b.1985) currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Through a mixed media practice combining artificial and natural materials together, Baker creates abstracted landscapes that explore vast space, and how we move, see and explore within them. The materials, texture, shapes, and color relationships are guided by Baker’s Mandan/Hidatsa culture to explore how identity can relate to innate objects. Baker has had recent solo exhibitions at de boer, Los Angeles, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ; Halsey McKay, East Hampton, NY; Pied-à-terre, San Francisco; and Interface Gallery, Oakland. Group exhibitions include, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, Nerman Museum, Overland Park, KS, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX, and Marin MOCA, Marin, CA. Baker is a 2022 Joan Mitchell Fellow, and was an artist-in-residence at Fogo Island Arts in Newfoundland in 2022. Baker was the 2020 Native American fellow at the Ucross Foundation in Ucross, WY. She was a Tournesol Award artist-in-residence at Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA as well as an Headlands Affiliate artist in residence. Baker received her B.A. from Fordham University, and MFA from California College of the Arts. 

Oct 31 11:30 am

School of Art Visiting Speaker Series

Please join the Sculpture program at the School of Art for a public conversation between Shahzia Sikander and Dr. Paul M. Farber. Born in Lahore, Pakistan, Sikander earned a B.F.A. in 1991 from the National College of Arts (NCA) in Lahore. The artist moved to the United States to pursue an M.F.A. at the Rhode Island School of Design from 1993 to 1995; from 1995 to 1997, she participated in the CORE Program of the Glassell School of Art at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Sikander’s multimedia work Havah… to breathe, air, life is currently installed on the University of Houston campus. Paul M. Farber is a curator, historian, and educator. He is Director of Monument Lab. He also serves as Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Public Art & Space at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design.

Jan 23 3:00 pm

School of Art Visiting Speaker Series

Samantha Box is a Jamaican-born, Bronx-based photographer. She holds an MFA in Advanced Photographic Studies from Bard College. Most recently, her work has been exhibited at Light Work, the Silver Eye Center of Photography, and at Le Rencontres d’Arles; it is currently in exhibition at the Bronx Museum of Art, with upcoming solo shows at the Des Moines Art Center, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts (DC). Box has been an artist-in-residence at the Center of Photography at Woodstock, the Visual Studies Workshop and at Light Work. She has been awarded a NYFA/NYSCA Fellowship in Photography twice: in 2010 and in 2022, an En Foco Fellowship, and a Silver Eye Fellowship. In 2023, she was shortlisted for the Aperture Portfolio Prize, the Louis Roederer Discovery Award, and the Prix De La Photo Madame Figaro. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Art, Houston and of the Harvard Art Museums. 

Feb 06 6:30 pm

School of Art Visiting Speaker Series

Helen Armstrong is a Professor of Graphic & Experience Design and the Director of the MGXD Program at NC State University. Her research focuses on digital rights, human-machine teaming, and accessible design. Armstrong authored Graphic Design Theory; Digital Design Theory; and co-authored Participate: Designing with User-Generated Content. Her current book, Big Data, Big Design: Why Designers Should Care About Artificial Intelligence, demystifies A.I.—specifically machine learning— while inspiring designers to harness this technology and establish leadership via thoughtful human-centered design. Armstrong is a past member of the AIGA National Board of Directors, the editorial board of Design and Culture, and a former chair of the AIGA Design Educators Community. NC State named her a University Faculty Scholar in 2018. Her research partners have included IBM, Redhat, REI, Advance Auto Parts, SAS, Sealed Air, Department of Defense, and the Laboratory for Analytic Sciences

Mar 27 3:00 pm

School of Art Visiting Speaker Series

Brian Crabtree creates objects, music, and objects that make music. In 2005 with Kelli Cain he founded monome, pioneering the grid-based performance interface. This open-source tool encourages people to envision and build their own musical systems, fostering an international community where people share code, sounds, and ideas.
Brian and Kelli’s work has shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in addition to numerous international performances. They live in upstate New York where time is shared with apple orchards, shiitake stacks, and birds of all size and color and song.