MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
Department of Art, Art History, and Design
2023-2024 STANLEY & SELMA HOLLANDER VISITING ARTIST, DESIGNER, AND SCHOLAR LECTURE SERIES
Please join the MSU Department of Art, Art History, and Design for our annual Stanley & Selma Hollander Visiting Artist, Designer, and Scholar lecture series. All of our events are free and open to the public. Please plan to bring your MSU ID as many MSU campus buildings lock at 6pm. Someone will watch the door for community members to ensure they are able to continue to join us for these inspiring talks.
FALL 2023
ANDREW CULP | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12 | 105 S. KEDZIE | 6:30PM
Andrew Culp, PhD, serves as the Director of the MA Aesthetics and Politics program at CalArts, where he teaches Media History and Theory in the School of Critical Studies. Culp’s work intersects media, technology, politics, and philosophy, his research has been published in journals such as Radical Philosophy, parallax, symplokē, and boundary 2 online. He has contributed to various books and actively engages contemporary thought through interviews, essays, and dialogues. He has published two books; Dark Deleuze (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) and A Guerrilla Guide to Refusal (University of Minnesota Press, March 2022) and he is currently working on a new book titled Antinomia.
In addition to his lecture, Culp will be offering a film screening of Machine in Flames with the Broad Underground Film Series on Friday, October 13 at 7pm in B122 Wells Hall.
For more information about Culp and the film screen, please use the links below.
http://www.andrewculp.org/
https://broadmuseum.msu.edu/events/202310130-broad-underground/
HILLARIE M. SHEETS | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2 | 107 S. KEDZIE | 6 PM
Hillarie M. Sheets is a New York-based journalist and critic focused on visual art and culture. Her writing has been published in the New York Times, the Art Newspaper, Galerie Magazine, W Magazine, Elle, Artnet News, The Design Edit along with many other publications and she has been a contributing editor for ARTnews, Sheets is the 2023-2024 Critic-in-Residence and will be writing essays about the 2024 MFA Exhibition.
JOHNNY ADIMANDO | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6 | 108 KRESGE ART CENTER | 6 PM
Johnny Adimando is an artist and Senior Academic Technologist and Senior Critic in Printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design. His work is predicated on the harmonious mixture of multiple print processes on a single surface. His work often combines screenprinting and copper plate etching into large scale free standing sculptural forms. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is in public and private collections including the Philadelphia Free Library, the Samek Gallery at Bucknell University, Tower Investments Gallery, the Lyman Allan Museum and various flat file collections. His recent awards include a Merit Fellowship from Zea Mays printshop, where Adimando completed a non-toxic intaglio-based print project in summer 2023 and many more.
http://www.johnnyadimando.com/
ANNE H. BERRY | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8 | 146 GILTNER | 6 PM
Anne H. Berry is a writer, designer, and Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Design at Cleveland State University (CSU). Her research focuses on race and representation in design, and ethnic and racial disparities within the field of graphic design. She was interviewed for designer Maurice Cherry’s award-winning podcast Revision Path and was featured in the recently published book Black, Brown + Latinx Design Educators: Conversations on Design and Race by Kelly Walters and many others. Berry is also a 2018 Design Incubation Fellow and managing editor of The Black Experience in Design: Identity, Expression, and Reflection which was published in February 2022 and included in Fast Company’s “Best Design Books of 2022” and the 2022 Non-Obvious Book Awards Long List. Finally, she was recognized as a designer to watch in the “2023 GD USA People to Watch”.
ANNA JORDAN | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14 | 107 S. KEDZIE | 6 PM
Anna Jordan is a graphic designer and educator based in Rochester, NY., who focuses her creative practice in book cover design. Her work has been internationally recognized by many of the most respected peer-reviewed competitions in the design field. Her client list also demonstrates the reach of her work, and include Princeton University Press, Penguin Random House, W. W. Norton & Company, and Stanford University Press. She is Assistant Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology’s MFA Visual Communication Design program.
ULRIKE KROTSCHECK | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30 | 107 S. KEDZIE | 6PM
Dr. Ulrike Krotscheck is an archaeologist of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds, who also teaches global archaeology and heritage ethics. her primary research focuses on the ancient Greek diaspora from southern France to the Black Sea, Greek ceramics, cross-cultural trade, and mortuary archaeology. For over 25 years, she has participated in archaeological fieldwork in France, Greece, and Turkey, at a variety of different archaeological sites, dating from the Neolithic to the Byzantine. Her current book project is The West Cemetery at Isthmia: A Contextual Approach, to be published by the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. She has also published articles in Archaeometry, Archaeology of Anatolia, Ancient East & West, the online journal Antigone, and several book chapters in edited volumes. She teaches at Evergreen State College in Tacoma, Washington. Krotscheck will serve as the 2023 Art History and Visual Culture Undergraduate Symposium Keynote Speaker.
SPRING 2024
KEITH KNIGHT | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2 | MSU MAIN LIBRARY | 7PM
COMICS FORUM CREATOR KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Keith Knight is many things–rapper, social activist, father and educator among them. He is also one of the funniest and most highly regarded cartoonists in America. For nearly three decades, this multi-award-winning artist has brought the funny back to the funny pages with a uniquely personal style that’s a cross between Calvin & Hobbes, MAD, and underground comix. Keith Knight is part of a generation of African-American artists who were raised on hip-hop, infusing their work with urgency, edge, humor, satire, politics and race. His art has appeared in various publications worldwide, including the Washington Post, the New Yorker, San Francisco Chronicle, the Nib, Ebony, ESPN the Magazine, MAD Magazine, and the Funny Times. In 2020, the world was introduced to Knight’s work in a whole new way–as the inspiration for the live-action streaming television series, Woke, courtesy of Hulu. Knight serves as a co-creator, writer, and executive producer on the show.
REBECCA WANZO | SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3 | MSU MAIN LIBRARY | 12 PM
COMICS FORUM SCHOLAR KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Rebecca Wanzo is a professor and chair of the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis.
She is the author of The Suffering Will Not Be Televised: African American Women and Sentimental Political Storytelling (SUNY Press, 2009), which uses African American Women as a case study in exploring the kinds of storytelling conventions of people must adhere to for their suffering to be legible to various institutions in the United States. Her most recent book, The Content of Our Caricature: African American Comic Art and Political Belonging (NYU Press, 2020) examines how Black cartoonists have used racialized caricatures to criticize constructions of ideal citizenship, as well as the alienation of African Americans from such imaginaries. It was the recipient of the Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Prize from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, the Charles Hatfield Book Prize from the Comics Studies Society, and the Best Scholarly/Academic Work from the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards.
https://www.rebeccawanzo.com/
WENDY WHITE | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7 | MSU BROAD ART MUSEUM | 6PM
Wendy White is a visual artist whose work encompasses painting, sculpture, and installation and often references symbols and iconography of contemporary advertising, branding, American pop culture, and twentieth-century art history. Through juxtaposing gestural mark-making and fabricated elements, White uses sculptural and spatial interventions to defy and expand the boxed-in limitations of the traditional canvas. This lecture is offered alongside Resistance Training: Arts, Sports, and Civil Rights. On view through February 18, 2024, the exhibition explores the shared values between artists and athletes in the advancement of social justice-related issues.
* POSTPONED ESMAA MOHAMOUD | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6 | WHARTON PASANT THEATRE | 6PM *POSTPONED
This lecture has been postponed by the MSU Broad Art Museum, as soon as a new date has been set our calendar will be updated.
Esmaa Mohamoud is an African-Canadian sculptor and installation, conceptual artist who describes her studio practice as an examination of “the monolithic versus the multitude.” Her work is a visually stunning and profound examination of the gap between contemporary culture’s oversimplification and diminishment of Black people, compared to the complexity, richness, and diversity of their actual lived experiences. This lecture is being hosted by the MSU Broad Art Museum in anticipation of major commission coming to the museum in 2024.
In order to attend this lecture you must register in advance, please use the link below:
https://broadmuseum.msu.edu/events/artist-talk-03262024/
LISA CORINNE DAVIS | TUESDAY, MARCH 12 | 107 S. KEDZIE | 6 PM
Lisa Corinne Davis is a Brooklyn-based painter best known for paintings and works on paper that resemble multilayered maps with encoded narratives. Her “inventive geography” prompts a wide range of interpretations; its open-endedness is a stance she actively cultivates. The resultant mix of eclectic form and content is surprising as well as stimulating. Davis, who is African American, says her practice explores the complex relationship between “race, culture and history” and, with it, ideas about classification and contingency, the rational and irrational, chaos and order. A renowned professor, having taught at the Yale University School of Art, and currently as Professor of Art, and Co-Director of the MFA, at Hunter College.
http://www.lisacorinnedavis.com/
CHIE FUEKI | TUESDAY, MARCH 19 | 107 S. KEDZIE | 6PM
Visually-striking and intricate, Fueki’s paintings picture contemporary life in spectacular motion. Created through a complex system of painting, drawing, cutting, and collaging onto wood panels, her practice is centered around the depiction of figures, symbols, and abstract spaces using multi-layered ornamental surfaces and fields of color. Drawing on her experience as a Japanese-born artist growing up in Brazil and later practicing in the United States, Fueki’s work embraces the visual language from these three distinct cultures. As Fueki explains: “I consider myself a mixed-language painter with interest in eastern and western perspectival systems, architectural graphics, pop animation, pre-Renaissance European painting, and exuberant color.”
https://www.dcmooregallery.com/artists/chie-fueki
DR. ALLYSON MCDAVID | TUESDAY, MARCH 26 | 107 S. KEDZIE | 6PM
Dr. Allyson McDavid is Assistant Professor of Ancient Material and Visual Culture at Parsons in New York. Her research interests include architectural history and theory from antiquity to the present, with specialization in the archaeology of renovation in monuments and cities of the ancient world. With over a decade in contemporary architectural practice in the United States and archaeological fieldwork on sites of antiquity across the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions, Allyson integrates theory, practice, and social histories in her focus on the ways in which cultural ideologies influence architectural patronage, resilience, and circular practices of the built environment. Her publications include the forthcoming monograph, The Hadrianic Baths of Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity (Wiesbaden); chapters in Economic Circularity in the Roman and Early Medieval Worlds (Oxford, 2023), Classical New York: Discovering Greece and Rome in Gotham (New York, 2018), Masons at Work: Architecture and Construction in the Pre-Modern World (Philadelphia, 2012), EGERIA: Mediterranean Medieval Places of Pilgrimage (Athens, 2009); and articles in the Journal of Roman Archaeology (2016) and the European Architectural Histories Network (2019).
KAYLA MATTES | THURSDAY, APRIL 4 | MSU BROAD ART MUSEUM | 6PM
Kayla Mattes is interested in the narrative, feminist, and technological history of tapestry weaving and its ability to act as a material archive of our times. With each woven thread they slow down fleeting moments from screen-culture that flood through our feeds at a frenetic pace that is difficult to retain. Humor also plays a big part in the work, similar to the way memes operate. Comedy and tragedy intersect with the digital and physical, forming icon-heavy tableaus that simultaneously act as jokes and social commentary. This lecture is being hosted by the MSU Broad Art Museum in association with their exhibition Kayla Mattes: DOOMSCROLLING, on view through August 18, 2024, and offered in partnership with the MSU Science Festival.
AARON S. COLEMAN | TUESDAY, APRIL 9 | 107 S. KEDZIE | 6PM
Aaron S. Coleman is a mixed media artist and printmaker creating works focused on political and social issues. He combines imagery from comic books and stained-glass windows to raise questions concerning misconstrued belief systems and twisted moral values in our society. Aaron’s background in hip-hop culture and street art remains as a major influence in his fine art practices. Coleman has participated in international residencies and exhibitions and received numerous awards for his work in printmaking, sculpture, and installation. He is the 2021 recipient of the Black Box Press Foundation Art as Activism Grant and was nominated for a 2022 Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship. Coleman is the Kenneth E. Tyler Chair, and an Associate Professor in Printmaking at the Herron School of Art & Design at Indiana University.
https://aaroncolemanprintmaking.com
