2025-2026: Archive: McKinney Visiting Artist Series: Speaker Series: Events: Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design: Indiana University Bloomington

Friday, September 05, 2025

5 p.m.

The McKinney Visiting Artist Series kicks off its 2025-26 season with a panel discussion among three artists who have been guests of the series over the past decade and whose artwork is on view in the Grunwald Gallery in the exhibition "Re:Visit | Celebrating a Decade of McKinney Visiting Artists": Cappy Counard, Yvonne Osei, and Martin Venezky.

Amir H. Fallah

Friday, September 19, 2025

5 p.m.

Amir H. Fallah explores identity, memory, and the layered narratives embedded in objects and images in his painting, sculpture, and large-scale installation. Born in Tehran and based in Los Angeles, the multidisciplinary artist whose work belongs to the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art was the founder and longtime creative director of the art publication Beautiful/Decay.

Glenn Adamson | Soundings: Toshiko Takaezu in Context

Monday, October 06, 2025, 6:30 p.m.—Monday, October 06, 2025, 8 p.m.

Please note special time for this McKinney lecture. Co-curator of “Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within,” Glenn Adamson will explore the renowned ceramic artist’s work, putting her into the context of postwar craft and painting. The exhibition debuted at the Noguchi Museum in New York and is currently on view at the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Marlene True | Upcycling with Purpose: Transforming Materials, Creating Narrative

Friday, October 24, 2025, 5 p.m.—Friday, October 24, 2025, 6 p.m.

In this lecture, jewelry artist and educator Marlene True will share her creative process fueled by a commitment to sustainability and a curiosity about the overlooked. True explores the expressive possibilities of discarded items by transforming them into bold, wearable art that challenges ideas of beauty and value while carrying subtle traces of the materials’ former life.

Miguel Rivera | Graphic Fusion: Mapping and Migration

Friday, November 14, 2025, 5 p.m.—Friday, November 14, 2025, 6 p.m.

In this lecture, artist and educator Miguel Rivera shares the evolution of his artistic practice as it has intersected with his cultural identity. Rivera is Associate Professor and Chair of Printmaking at the Kansas City Art Institute, where he has taught since 2008.

Elana Herzog | Unfolding

Friday, December 05, 2025, 5 p.m.—Friday, December 05, 2025, 6 p.m.

Elana Herzog’s work can be described as a form of domestic archaeology, often engaging architecture and other more intimate forms of material culture to consider aspects of ephemerality, entropy, pleasure and pain. The New York-based artist’s work has been exhibited around the world and reviewed in major publications including Art in America, Artforum, The New York Times, and Hyperallergic.

Ian van Coller | Naturalists of the Long Now

Friday, February 20, 2026, 5 p.m.—Friday, February 20, 2026, 6 p.m.

A talk by Ian van Coller, whose photo-based project “Naturalists of the Long Now” challenges viewers to think about the vast scales of geologic time through scientific analysis of various planetary archives, such as glaciers, trees, sediments, and fossils. A professor of photography at Montana State University, van Coller is a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow whose work belongs to the Philadelphia Art Museum, the Getty Research Institute, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, among other collections.

Roopa Vasudevan | Opening the System

Friday, March 06, 2026, 5 p.m.—Friday, March 06, 2026, 6 p.m.

In this talk, media artist and researcher Roopa Vasudevan will discuss how, through her technologically-engaged practice—spanning creative coding, artistic self-publishing, drawing, printmaking, and more—she investigates the stories we tell ourselves about digital systems,

Ethan Philbrick | Soup Dripping from a Frame: Defacement and the Politics of Art

Thursday, March 26, 2026

6 p.m.

Please note that this McKinney lecture, unlike most in the series, takes place on a Thursday. While defacement is widely discounted as a political tactic for being too individualistic and indirect, this lecture pays close formal attention to recent acts of defacement in order to think some new thoughts for our times about the relationship between art and politics, symbolic action and material action, impotence and intervention, sabotage and strategy, property and the proper.

Patricia Olynyk | Dark Matter

Friday, April 03, 2026

5 p.m.

Patricia Olynyk’s sculptures, prints, and multi-media installations investigate science and technology-related themes and the ways in which social systems and institutional structures shape our understanding of our place in the world. This lecture will discuss a series of projects that investigate science and technology-related themes, including the dark matter concept in astrophysics, often used as a cosmic metaphor for things we cannot directly observe or understand, but whose effects are acutely felt or inferred.

Marharyta Zhurunova and Bohdan Lokatyr (McKinney International Artists-in-Residence)

Friday, April 17, 2026

5 p.m.

Marharyta Zhurunova and Bohdan Lokatyr will present an overview of their collaborative practice, tracing its development from early land art projects to recent site-specific and environmental works shaped by the realities of war in Ukraine. The Ukrainian artist duo are the 2026 McKinney Artists-in-Residence.

John Berry (B.A. '66) and Richard Burns (B.A. '65) | Creating a New Design Profession

Friday, April 24, 2026

5 p.m.

Founded in 1973 by IU design graduates John Berry (B.A. '66) and Richard Burns (B.A. '65), the Society of Experiential Graphic Designers (SEGD) was conceived, developed, and has grown to become one of the world’s foremost professional design associations. In this talk, the design alumni will share the serendipitous circumstances that launched their collaborative founding of the field of experiential graphic design and SEGD, which serves as a hub for the work of visual communications and user experience in the built environment.

2025-2026

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