Ä¢¹½´«Ã½

Fall 2025

September 12, 2025:  (Sculpture and Expanded Media)
Performative Bodies

September 26, 2025:  (Art History)
Sourcing the Ephemeral City at Chicago’s 1933–34 A Century of Progress World’s Fair

October 10, 2025:  (Print Media and Photography)
Visualizing the Invisible

November 7, 2025:  (Textiles)
Weaving Transgressions

November 14, 2025:  (Art History)
The Harbinger Is Home: Ambivalence and Accountability for Prospect New Orleans’s Local Community

Spring 2026

February 6, 2026:  (Ceramics)
Oscillation Between: Wishful Archiving

March 20, 2026:  (Painting)
Things That Happen While You Are Doing Other Things

April 10, 2026:  (Jewelry, Metals and Enameling)
A Consideration of Materials: Their Past, Present and Future

Fall 2024

September 27, 2024:  (Textiles)
Process Is the Metaphor

October 11, 2024:  (Drawing)
Navigation and Dislocation

November 1, 2024:  (Art History)
People and the Pigments: The Ethnobotany of Diné Weaving and the Colorado Plateau

Spring 2025

February 4, 2025: Maria Dávila and Eduardo Portillo (Textiles)
Weaving a World

February 7, 2025:  (Sculpture)
Anyone Can Make Art, Not Everyone Can Buy It

February 28, 2025:  (Ceramics)
In Search of a Clear Reflection

April 4, 2025: , featuring Mary Jenea Sanchez and Gabriela Muñoz (Art History and Print Media and Photography)
Fronterizx Collective: Building Power Through Transnational Collaboration

April 25, 2025:  (Painting)
Model American

Fall 2023

September 1, 2023: , interdisciplinary artist (Textiles)
Non-Visual Art: Why Materials Matter

September 8, 2023: , artist and activist (Art Education)
Presented in conjunction with the School of Art Galleries exhibition Holocaust Heroes: Fierce Females.
How Art Is a Catalyst for Gender Justice vs. Bullying and Oppression

September 22, 2023: , youth arts educator, and , art educator (Art Education)
Teaching Art as Social Engagement

October 13, 2023: , curator at the Cleveland Museum of Art (Art History)
How to Curate an Exhibition: China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures From the Lower Yangzi Delta at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Spring 2024

January 26, 2024:  and
Presented in conjunction with the School of Art Galleries.
Time Is a Waveform and As the Hour Turns Blue

February 2, 2024: , art historian (Art History)
Symbolic Violence and the Jew in Premodern Italian Art

February 9, 2024: , ceramicist (Ceramics)
The Struggle Is Real

March 1, 2024: , printmaking artist (Print Media and Photography)
In Plain Sight: Dark Histories Uncovered

April 5, 2024: , sculptor (Sculpture and Expanded Media)
Presented in conjunction with the School of Art Galleries.
Play Without Play

May 3, 2024: , painter (Painting)
Resistance and Resilience

Fall 2022

October 7, 2022: , writer and curator (Art History)
Curating the Tenth Berlin Biennale and The School of Anxiety

Spring 2023

January 20, 2023: , interdisciplinary artist (Textiles)
Hair as Praxis

February 3, 2023: , interdisciplinary artist (Art Education)
Printmaking as Installation and Sculpture

February 24, 2023: , curator at the North Carolina Museum of Art
Juror for the Student Annual.
Uncharted Histories

March 3, 2023:  and , printmaking artists (Print Media and Photography)
Nexo Entre Raíces: The Planting of a Seed in Mexican Printmaking

March 10, 2023: , artist and filmmaker (Sculpture and Expanded Media)
Seeing the Forest, Seeing the Trees

April 7, 2023: , Ph.D., art historian (Art History)
David Smith and Public Engagement

April 14, 2023: , painter (Painting and Drawing)
Various Forms of Trickery

Fall 2021

October 22, 2021: Curlee Raven Holton
Presented as part of A Collaboration of Creativity in the CVA Gallery.

November 1, 2021: Tali Weinberg (Textiles)

December 3, 2021: Dakota Mace (Art History and Print Media and Photography)

Spring 2022

January 21, 2022: Kira Dominguez Hultgren (Textiles)
Presented as part of the LINE BY LINE exhibition in the CVA Gallery.

February 25, 2022: Tabitha Ott (Jewelry, Metals and Enameling)
Presented as part of Ott’s solo exhibition, Imaginarium, at the KSU Downtown Gallery.

March 4, 2022: April Bey (Art History)
Presented as part of the TEXTURES exhibition at the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ Museum.
Art and the Millennial Natural Hair Movement

March 11, 2022: Crystal Gregory (Textiles)
Presented as part of the LINE BY LINE exhibition in the CVA Gallery.

April 8, 2022: Kilolo Luckett, visiting curator (Art History)

April 15, 2022: Kelcy Chase Folsom (Ceramics)

April 20, 2022: Aimee Lee (Print Media)
The program also included a papermaking demonstration.

April 22, 2022: Luanne Redeye
Presented by the School of Art Galleries.

April 29, 2022: Jiha Moon (Painting and Ceramics)

All lectures during the 2020–21 academic year were presented virtually.

Fall 2020

September 25, 2020: Maria Elena Buszek, visiting scholar (Art History and Painting)

October 2, 2020: Stephen Saracino (Jewelry, Metals and Enameling)

November 6, 2020: Faisal Abdu’allah (Print Media and Photography)

December 4, 2020: Kevin Jenkins, Ph.D., visiting scholar (Art Education)
TMI: Giving an Account of a Trans Self

Spring 2021

February 5, 2021: Susan Zwirn, Ph.D., visiting scholar (Art Education)

February 12, 2021: Mehdi-Georges Lahlou
Curator conversation with Joseph Underwood, Ph.D., presented in connection with Into the Wind, the Veils in the Crawford and Payto galleries.

February 19, 2021: Jessalyn Boeke, co-founder of Rust Belt Fibershed (Textiles)

March 5, 2021: Lanisa Kitchiner, Ph.D., visiting scholar (Art History)

March 12, 2021: Ben Kinsley (Sculpture and Expanded Media)

April 2, 2021: Rachel Eulena Williams (Painting)

April 9, 2021: Glenn Adamson, visiting art historian and critic
Presented in partnership with the Cleveland Institute of Art.

April 23, 2021: Dawit L. Petros, juror for Import/Export
Artist talk presented by the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ Global Understanding Research Initiative.

April 30, 2021: Naeem Mohaiemen
Presented in partnership with moCa Cleveland.

Fall 2019

September 6, 2019: Henry Halem
The History of Ä¢¹½´«Ã½â€™s Glass Program

September 13, 2019: Marc Petrovic and Kari Russell-Pool (Glass)

October 4, 2019: Art Byte
Presentations by School of Art faculty members Shana Klein, Joseph Underwood, Davin Ebanks, J. Leigh Garcia, Michelle Summers and Marie Bukowski.

October 18, 2019: Melanie Yazzie (Print Media and Art History)

November 1, 2019: Wayne Gonzales (Painting and Drawing)

December 6, 2019: Salvador Jiménez-Flores (Print Media and Photography)

Spring 2020

February 7, 2020: Renee Zettle Sterling (Jewelry, Metals and Enameling)

February 21, 2020: Lenka Clayton (Sculpture and Expanded Media)

February 28, 2020: Holland Houdek (Jewelry, Metals and Enameling)

March 6, 2020: Marianne Fairbanks (Textiles)

Fall 2018

September 7, 2018: Erik Waterkotte (Printmaking)

September 28, 2018: Heather Lenz (Art History)

October 5, 2018: Scott Carter (Sculpture and Expanded Media)

November 2, 2018: Jonathan Juravich, visiting lecturer (Art Education)

December 7, 2018: Megan Holmes, visiting scholar and art historian

Spring 2019

January 25, 2019: Brett Binford (Ceramics)

March 1, 2019: Sharon Massey (Jewelry, Metals and Enameling)

April 5, 2019: Lauren Salazar (Textiles)

May 3, 2019: Austin Porter, visiting scholar and art historian

Fall 2017

September 1, 2017: Arron Foster, visiting professor (Printmaking)

October 6, 2017: Giselle Hicks (Ceramics)
Sponsored by Peter Johnson.

November 3, 2017: Mitchell F. Chan (Sculpture)
Sponsored by Jonas Sebura and Isabel Farnsworth.

December 1, 2017: Imin Yeh (Printmaking)
Sponsored by Arron Foster.

Spring 2018

January 26, 2018: Chalkie Davies (Art History)

February 2, 2018: John Paul Morabito (Textiles)

March 2, 2018: Joseph Lupo (Printmaking)

April 6, 2018: Shannon Stratton, chief curator at the Museum of Arts and Design

April 20, 2018: Deirdre Murphy
Stratosphere Lecture sponsored by the College of the Arts.

April 27, 2018: Heidi Hahn (Painting)