Michigan State University’s Department of Art, Art History, and Design will welcome 10 artists, designers, and scholars to campus during the 2026-27 academic year as part of its annual Stanley and Selma Hollander Visiting Artist, Designer, and Scholar Lecture Series.

This year’s series brings internationally recognized leaders in art, design, and scholarship to MSU to share their creative and scholarly research and explore how visual representation in its many forms can serve as a mode of inquiry. The series kicks off Tuesday, Sept. 29, with American Artist. All lectures and events in the series are free and open to the public.

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The 2026-27 lineup spans a wide range of disciplines and perspectives, with visiting speakers whose work explores technology, race, memory, art history, literature, conservation, design, and the relationships between art and society.

Beyond their public lectures, visiting artists, designers, and scholars engage with the MSU community through a variety of activities such as workshops, class visits, panel discussions, exhibitions, studio visits, and group critiques. These opportunities allow students and the public to interact directly with leading professionals and scholars while gaining new perspectives on their own creative and academic work.

The series is named for the late Stanley and Selma Hollander, its primary benefactors. Their generosity and longstanding support for the arts and humanities at Michigan State University can be seen across campus. Their legacy continues to provide the Department of Art, Art History, and Design with a sustained opportunity to bring artists, designers, and scholars from around the world to MSU each year.

This year’s series also is sponsored by the Department of Art, Art History, and Design along with generous support from MSU’s College of Arts and Letters, Office of the Provost, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Department of English, Department of History, Department of Anthropology, Digital Humanities Program, Department of Theatre, and Beal Botanical Gardens and Arboretum.

The following are the 2026-27 Stanley and Selma Hollander Visiting Artists, Designers, and Scholars:

Fall 2026

A young man wearing a black beanie with white lettering, a dark blue plaid shirt over a black T-shirt, and a silver chain necklace, looking directly at the camera with a neutral expression. The background is an indoor setting with softly blurred details. — American Artist

American Artist

Date and Time: Tuesday, Sept. 29, 6 p.m.
Location: 107 South Kedzie Hall

American Artist makes thought experiments that mine the history of technology, race, and knowledge production, beginning with their legal name change in 2013. Artist’s work is in the permanent collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Museum of Modern Art.

Jonathan Springer

Date and Time: Tuesday, Oct. 6, 6 p.m.
Location: 107 South Kedzie Hall

Jonathan Springer is a Creative Director at REI Co-op, helping redefine what it means to be “outdoorsy” through bold and inclusive marketing campaigns. With more than 20 years of design experience, he has created award-winning campaigns for USPS, Target, Whole Foods, Moncler, AT&T, and many other global brands.

Close-up portrait of Juan Cortes with a dark beard, wearing a black zip-up hoodie with the hood pulled up against a warm yellow-and-orange backdrop — Juan Cortés

Juan Cortés

Date and Time: Tuesday, Oct. 13, 6 p.m.
Location: 107 South Kedzie Hall

Juan Cortés is a Colombian artist, educator, and co-founder of the editorial project Otros Presentes. He leads technology for the Museum of the Centro Nacional de Memoria Histórica de Colombia, developing decentralized digital platforms that explore memory, politics, ecology, and the intersections between art and technology.

Seph Rodney

Date and Time: Tuesday, Nov. 17, 6 p.m.
Location: 107 South Kedzie Hall

Seph Rodney, Ph.D., is a regular contributor to The New York Times and a former senior critic and opinions editor for Hyperallergic. In 2020, he won the Rabkin Arts Journalism Prize, and in 2022, he received an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. He also is a curator of contemporary art exhibitions.

David Young Kim

Date and Time: Thursday, Dec. 3, 6 p.m.
Location: 107 South Kedzie Hall

David Young Kim, Professor of History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania, is an art historian of the early modern period. His research focuses on theories of art, historiography, and film. His books on the traveling artist and on groundwork in the Renaissance have opened new fields of inquiry, while his current project examines translations of Vasari’s famous 16th-century biographies of artists in Korea.

Spring 2027

A smiling woman with curly brown hair tied up, wearing a blue denim jacket and a nose ring. She is photographed outdoors in bright sunlight, with a field of pumpkins, green trees, distant hills, and a clear blue sky in the background. — Kelly Clare

Kelly Clare

Date and Time: Thursday, Feb. 4, 6 p.m.
Location: 107 South Kedzie Hall

Kelly Clare is an artist and writer based in western Massachusetts who explores digital materiality through multimedia installation, sculpture, drawing, and poetry. The author of three poetry chapbooks, Clare also is an editor at Ghost Proposal. Clare has an MFA from the Sculpture and Intermedia Department at the University of Iowa.

Jen Wang

Date and Time: Friday, Feb. 26, 7 p.m.
Location: MSU Library Green Room

Jen Wang is this year’s Comics Forum keynote speaker. She is a New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of several graphic novels, including Ash’s Cabin; Stargazing; The Prince and the Dressmaker; In Real Life, co-written with Cory Doctorow; and Koko Be Good. Wang is a co-founder and organizer of Comic Arts LA.

Isla Hansen

Date and Time: Tuesday, March 23, 6 p.m.
Location: 107 South Kedzie Hall

Isla Hansen is an artist who works in sculpture, interactive installation, performance, video, and play objects. Her work explores cultures surrounding play, personal technologies, labor, work, children’s media, fantasy, and the relationship between bodies and technological progress. Hansen teaches sculpture at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

A woman with long, straight brown hair and a fair complexion, wearing a black turtleneck sweater. She faces the camera with a neutral expression. The background features a white brick wall and a dark window or doorway. — Michelle Segre

Michelle Segre

Date and Time: Tuesday, April 6, 6 p.m.
Location: 107 South Kedzie Hall

Michelle Segre lives and works in New York City. She has had solo exhibitions at the lumber room in Portland, Oregon, and the University Art Museum at SUNY Albany, among others. Her work also has appeared in group exhibitions at the deCordova Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts, and MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, New York.

Angeliki Kandri

Date and Time: Tuesday, April 27, 6 p.m.
Location: 107 South Kedzie Hall

Angeliki Kandri is a conservator of antiquities and works of art in Greece. She has collaborated with Greek and international archaeologists on projects that include the restoration of works at Kenchries, Poseidonia, and other sites in the Corinthia. Her current research focuses on the use of 3D-printing technology in conservation.