Also known as ART220 Professional Lecture Series
Each year, the Art Department hosts the Visual Voices Lecture Series, bringing distinguished artists, designers, and critics to campus. All lectures are free and open to the public. The Visual Voices Lecture Series forms a vital link that connects the Bradley community with regional, national and global perspectives on art. The visiting speakers inspire Fine Art students by sharing their own creative research and other experience that is relevant to building a career in the field.
Fall 2024
August 29: Ann M Tartsinis Art Historian/Educator, “After Mondrian’s Dress: Yves Saint Laurent, Pop Art and the Ebony Fashion Fair”
September 19: Nina Gospodin, Interdisciplinary Artist, Podcaster and Writer, “Uninsulated Connections”
September 26: Julie Chen, Book Artist and Book Educator, “Experiencing the Artists Book”
October 24: Andy Slater, Media Artist, Writer, Performer, Disability Advocate “Ocular Centrism is for Sellouts”
December 3 (*Tues), Justin Ahrens, Creative Strategist, “See Different. Do Different”
Fall 2023
Thursday, September 21st
Kat Liepins (mixed media artist, illustrator, and YouTuber)
https://www.katliepinsart.com/
“I Can’t Do Anything Else”
Monday, September 25th – IN HEUSER GALLERY
SCHOLAR PANEL:
PGOBA, Intersectionality, and Diaspora: A Conversation
September 25, 5pm
Reception to follow, 6-7pm
Panelists:
Dr. Darius Bost, scholar of Black studies and Gender and Women’s Studies with a focus on LGBT visual and literary culture at the University of Illinois, Chicago
Dr. Hermann von Hesse, scholar of early modern art of the Black diaspora and its contemporary legacy at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Alexander Martin, MFA, interdisciplinary artist alum of the Bradley University Art and Design Department Master of Fine Art program, and her work activates various aspects of Queer, Black, and Trans culture, her own personal history, and stories from within her communities.
Tyanna Buie, MFA is a printmaker and juror for the 38th Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition. Currently, Buie is an Associate Professor at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Thursday, October 19th
Catherine J. Morris
(curator at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum)
“A Shove in the Right Direction: Elizabeth Catlett and 20th Century Feminism”.
*Part of the MWA Symposium
Thursday, November 9th
MaryAnne Arntzen
(Baltimore-based painter)
https://www.maryannearntzen.com/
Thursday, November 16th
Gaylord Schanilec
(wood engraver, printer, designer, poet, and illustrator)
https://www.midnightpapersales.com/
Spring 2023
March 9, 2023
Tyanna Buie (Juror, 38th Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition)
https://tyannajbuie.com/home.html
March 30, 2023 (postponed from February 16, 2023)
Zachary Lifton (Founding Director, The Bindery, Milwaukee WI)
https://www.binderymke.com/
April 6, 2023
Brian Morris (Graphic Designer)
https://www.mrbrianmorris.com/
April 20, 2023
Kerry Grady (Graphic Designer)
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