Visiting Artist Lecture Series

Wet'n Wild Aquatic Theme Park, Orlando, Florida, September 1980, Joel Sternfeld

Each semester, weekly visiting artist lectures host noted artists, curators, critics, and historians to share their perspectives, expertise, and current work, and to give insight into contemporary issues facing artists and designers.

Wednesdays at 5 pm (unless otherwise noted)
Perception Lab, Visual Arts 1016

All lectures are free and open to the public.

Spring 2026

 

Date Artist
January 21 Emily Janowick
Thursday, February 12 An-My Lê
February 18 Cassils
February 25 Carrie Moyer
Tuesday, March 3 Kerry Downey
Tuesday, March 10 Daniel Bozhkov
March 18 Amy Bravo
Thursday, April 2 Angela Dufresne
April 8 Tommy Kha
April 15 Lesley Dill

Past Lectures

The School of Art+Design and the Digital Collections Center at Purchase College Library have digitally archived a selection of the artist lectures from 2012 to 2017 available through Artstor. The archive is for academic use only. To access the archive you must be on campus at Purchase College. Recordings of the ’20-’21, ’21-’22, ’22-’23, ’23-’24, and ’24-’25 lecture series are viewable on Vimeo for academic use.