Visiting Artist Lecture Series

All events are free and open to the NMSU community and the public.

Sponsored by the NMSU Department of Art, paid for by the Lilian Steinman Visiting Artist Fund.

FALL 2024

Ebitenyefa Baralaye
October 7, 2024
6:00 PM
Devasthali Hall, Bleacher Area

You are invited to a Visiting Artist Lecture by ceramicist, sculptor, designer, and educator Ebitenyefa Baralaye. His work explores cultural, spiritual, and material translations of objects, text, bodies and symbols interpreted through a diaspora lens and abstracted around the aesthetics of craft and design. He received a BFA in ceramics from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA in ceramics from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Baralaye’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at Friedman Benda Gallery (New York), David Klein Gallery (Detroit), Shoshana Wayne Gallery (Los Angeles), the Museum of the African Diaspora (San Francisco), and the Korea Ceramic Foundation (Icheon). He is currently an assistant professor and the Section Lead of Ceramics at the College for Creative Studies. Baralaye resides and works in Detroit, MI.

Unable to attend in person? Register for Zoom: https://linktr.ee/nmsu_VAS

Yeohyun Ahn
September 3, 2024
6:00 PM
Devasthali Hall, Bleacher Area

About: Yeohyun Ahn is an award-winning graphic designer, educator, and researcher in collaboration with creative coding, diversity, and global leadership. She leads several research projects: the interdisciplinary typography project TYPE+CODE Series; a multidisciplinary project to bring awareness to Asian female faculty in America titled Social Homelessness on US campuses; and Evolving Graphic Design to bring academic diversity. Ahn received the SEGD Educator Award in 2022. Featured in the Washington Post, PRINT, New York Times Magazine, Creator’s Project, Designboom.com, etc.

Unable to attend in person? Register for Zoom: https://linktr.ee/nmsu_VAS

Kelly Ann Temple
October 9, 2023
6:00 PM
Devasthali Hall, Bleacher Area

Kelly Ann Temple [she/her] is an artist, educator, and jeweler who is interested in our relationship with medical interventions; she is both fascinated by and fearful of the body’s ability to adapt, accept, reject, and repair. She works in materials and forms that reframe her thoughts about the disparate connections between the organic and inorganic, living and non-living, the human and machine. Her work addresse ideas of surface, acceptance, and transformation as it captures intimate moments where the biological and mechanical touch.

She is the head of Jewelry and Metalsmithing at the University of Central Oklahoma as Assistant Professor, and received her MFA at San Diego State University. Kelly’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is currently represented by Intro in Amsterdam, 108 Contemporary in Tulsa, OK, and Baltimore Jewelry Center.

Yuni Kim Lang
April 4, 2023
6:00 PM
NMSU HSS Room 101A

Born in Seoul, Korea, in 1986, Yuni Kim Lang received a MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA from Parsons School of Design. Lang is a Michigan-based visual artist who creates sculptures, photographs and wearable art that explores themes of weight, mass, accumulation, hair and cultural identity. She creates sculptures out of rope and synthetic materials where it transcends its materiality and become bodily. She is fascinated by what people give power and meaning to, along with our obsession with adornment.

In 2020, Lang took a year off in Korea to revisit her Motherland. She attended a Traditional Knotting Master of Skills School to study about Korean traditional knots. Lang had a two-person show at the Curfman gallery at the Colorado State University. She has had solo exhibitions at the Frost Art Museum in Miami, Florida and with Sienna Gallery in Lenox, Massachusetts. She has shown at the Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI, Collective 2 Design Art Fair in New York, NY, and internationally as well. Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Lang will be at John Michael Kohler Arts Center for the Arts/Industry Residency in 2018. She has done a residency at Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China and received a Merit-based Scholarship for her Residency at the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont.

Eric J. Garcia
November 7, 2022
6:00 PM
NMSU HSS Room 101A

Eric J. García uses history and a graphic style to create political art that confronts our understanding of the present. Using printmaking, drawings, and installations combined with materials specific to the project, he aims to educate and challenge. He received his BFA with a minor in Chicano studies from the University of New Mexico, and earned his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Garcia is a teaching artist, a core member of the printmaking collective, Instituto Gráfico de Chicago and one of the newest members of the Justseeds Print Cooperative. Garcia has exhibited nationally and can be found in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Hispanic Cultural Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Library of Congress.

Qualeasha Wood
September 26, 2022
6:00 PM
NMSU HSS Room 101A

Qualeasha Wood holds an MFA in Photography from Michigan’s Cranbrook Academy of Fine Art, and a BFA in printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her work spans sculptural, textile, and digital media and suggests realities around living in the black female body that do and might exist. Wood utilizes a range of traditional craft and contemporary digital materials to create intricate dialogues across time, and present novel perspectives on the relationship between the avatar and the self.

Qualeasha has exhibited at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, (London, UK); CANADA gallery (New York City); the Trout Museum of Art (Appleton, WI); solo at NADA Miami Beach 2020 with Kendra Jayne Patrick; Kendra Jayne Patrick for Metro Pictures (New York, NY); Cooper Cole (Toronto, ON); New Image Art (Los Angeles, CA); Gluon Gallery (Milwaukee, WI).

Trenton Doyle Hancock
September 15, 2022
6:00 PM
On ZOOM

Trenton Doyle Hancock uses prints, drawings, collaged-felt paintings, and site-specific installations, to tell fantastical narrative mythologies. Partly fictional, partly autobiographical, Hancock draws from personal experience, art historical canons, comics and superheroes, and pop culture references, resulting in a complex cast of characters and plots addressing universal concepts of light and dark, good and evil, and the grey territory between.

Hancock was born in Oklahoma City (1974) and raised in Paris, Texas. He earned his BFA from Texas A&M University and his MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia. Exhibition highlights include the 2000 and 2002 Whitney Biennial exhibitions, Mind of the Mound: Critical Mass at MASS MoCA (North Adams, MA, 2019), and Contemporary Focus: Trenton Doyle Hancock at the Menil Collection (Houston, TX, 2019). Hancock’s work is in the permanent collections of several museums, including: MoMA, NY; Whitney Museum, NY; The Met, NY; SFMOMA, CA; Detroit Institute of Arts, MI; and MFA Houston, TX. Hancock lives and works in Houston, Texas.

Wang Chen
October 12, 2021
6:00 PM
NMSU HSS Room 101A

Please join the NMSU Department of Art and the University Art Museum in welcoming WANG Chen as our first artist lecture of the Fall 2021 season on both Zoom and live, Tuesday, October 12, 2021. WANG Chen was born in China and is a multimedia artist currently living and working in NYC. Chen makes costumes and props for her video and builds unimaginable spaces using virtual reality. She received a BFA in painting from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2014 and an MFA in photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2018. Chen is currently a resident at the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program.

Jennifer Ling Datchuk
October 25, 2021
6:00 PM
NMSU HSS Room 101A

Please join the NMSU Department of Art and the UAM for an artist lecture with the artist Jennifer Ling Datchuk. Datchuk is an artist born in Warren, Ohio and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Her work is an exploration of her layered identity – as a woman, a Chinese woman, as an “American,” as a third culture kid. Trained in ceramics, Datchuk works with porcelain and other materials often associated with traditional women’s work, such as textiles and hair, to discuss fragility, beauty, femininity, intersectionality, identity, and personal history. Datchuk holds an MFA in Artisanry from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and a BFA in Crafts from Kent State University. She is an Assistant Professor of art at Texas State University and lives and maintains a studio practice in San Antonio, Texas.

Marie Alarcón
November 9, 2021
6:00 PM
NMSU HSS Room 101A

Please join the NMSU Department of Art and the UAM for an artist lecture with the artist Marie Alarcón. Marie Alarcón is an experimental video artist trained in Documentary Filmmaking and Time Based Media working as a community media educator and producer in Philadelphia since 2009. Alarcón’s work looks at hidden histories through the lens of place and its production. Her expansive process oriented practice often includes collaboration with dancers and musicians, bridging performance, sound, and assemblage/collage. They are currently an artist in residence at Roswell AIR, in Roswell, NM.