MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
Department of Art, Art History, and Design
2024-2025 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 2024
ESMAA MOHAMOUD | SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2–3PM | MSU Broad Art Museum
Join multi-disciplinary artist Esmaa Mohamoud as she talks about her exhibition COMPLEX DREAMS. She will share the inspiration and process behind her work, including the groundbreaking commission of 6,000 steel butterflies that explores the transformative power of art to express the perseverance, strength, and joy of Black girlhood.
https://broadmuseum.msu.edu/events/artist-talk-09152024/
For more information on Mohamoud’s exhibition: https://broadmuseum.msu.edu/exhibition/complex-dreams/
KELLY HOLTON | TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 6PM | 105 S. KEDZIE
Kelly Holton is the Senior Principal Brand Activation Director at Populous. Her approach to wayfinding and branded environments is driven by an understanding of human behavior and a desire to enhance experiences for fans, students, athletes, staff and visitors throughout the entire user journey.
https://populous.com/team/kelly-holton
STEVE SANDSTROM | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2:30PM | 147 CAS
Steve Sandstrom is a Designer and founder of Sandstrom Partners, a leading brand design firm in the US. He has been involved in the creation and revitalization of iconic brands and was recently elected to the 2024 Creative Hall of Fame of The One Club.
JESS LARSON | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 6PM | 107 S. KEDZIE
Jess Larson is a Minnesota-based artist whose work explores feminist themes via deconstructing messaging related to women’s bodies and cultural expectations. She currently teaches at UMM and is the Director for the Edward J and Helen Jane Morrison Gallery on campus.
http://jesslarson.com/wordpress/
SAMIA HALABY, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 7PM | RCAH THEATER
Samia Halaby is a distinguished MSU alumna whose work spans nearly seven decades of painting. On view June 29–December 15, 2024, Samia Halaby: Eye Witness follows Halaby’s creative journey to experiment with the ways painting conveys her experiences and reflects how she sees the world around her.
https://broadmuseum.msu.edu/events/artist-talk-10162024/
For more information on Halaby’s exhibition: https://broadmuseum.msu.edu/exhibition/samia-halaby-eye-witness/
WILLIAM CARAHER | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 6PM | 107 S. KEDZIE
Dr. Caraher is a historian and archaeologist of the Roman and later Roman Mediterranean. He is a prolific author, prominent figure in the digital archaeological community, and the Director of Digital Press at the University of North Dakota where he is an Associate Professor of History and Native American Studies.
https://mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com
JESSICA KEATING | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 6PM | 107 S. KEDZIE
Jessica Keating is Associate Professor of Art History at Carleton College. Her first book, Animating Empire: Automata, the Holy Roman Empire and the Early Modern World was published by Penn State University Press in 2018. She is in the process of writing, Impossible Nature: The World of Giuseppe Arcimboldo, with Reaktion Books.
https://www.carleton.edu/directory/jkeating/
JALEH MANSOOR | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 6pm | 107 S. KEDZIE
Jaleh Mansoor is a writer and Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Her current project is Philosophic and Economic Manuscripts of 1844, is Universal Prostitution: A Counter History of Abstraction Crossing Modernism, 1888-2008. Mansoor will serve as the 2024 Art History and Visual Culture Undergraduate Symposium Keynote Speaker.
https://ahva.ubc.ca/profile/jaleh-mansoor/
SPRING 2025
AMOS KENNEDY JR. | TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 6PM | 107 S. KEDZIE
Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. is an American printer, book artist and papermaker best known for social and political commentary, particularly in printed posters. One critic noted that Kennedy is “…unafraid of asking uncomfortable questions about race and artistic pretension.” https://www.kennedyprints.com
HANNELINE RØGEBERG | FEBRUARY 18, 6PM | 107 S. KEDZIE
Hanneline Røgeberg is an internationally exhibiting painter whose work engages material processes to override the representational and knowable. She is a professor at Mason Gross School of the Art, Rutgers University. Her next solo exhibit opens this August at Galleri Riis in Oslo. https://galleririis.com/artists/124
HANNAH BATSEL | THURSDAY, March 13, 6PM | 107 S. KEDZIE
Hannah Batsel is a book artist, writer, and illustrator based in Chicago, IL. Her award-winning handmade artist book work is represented in library and museum collections around the country, and she is currently working on her third mass-market illustrated book. http://www.hannahbatsel.com/about
BEATRIZ LOZANO | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 6PM | 107 S. KEDZIE
Beatriz Lozano is a designer, typographer, and educator exploring how technology can push typography to exist at the intersection of the physical and digital world. She currently teaches interaction design at Parsons and is working as an independent design director.
JENNIFER ANGUS | THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 6PM | 107 S. KEDZIE
Jennifer Angus was described by Art Daily as “one of the top contemporary installation artists in the country.” Her work has been shown internationally, as well as the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery and the Museum of Art and Design among many others. Angus is also serving as the Juror for the Art, Art History, & Design Undergraduate Exhibition at SCENE Metrospace.
ANGELIKI KANDRI | MONDAY, APRIL 14, 6PM | 107 S. KEDZIE
Angeliki Kandri is a conservator who has worked at numerous archaeological sites in Greece including the Finnish Institute’s excavations at Thesprotia in Epirus, the Greek Ephorate of the Corinthia on the restoration of the western terminus of the famous diolkos, and the rescue excavations at Loutraki on the Corinthian Gulf.
