Visiting artists and scholars are an integral part of the undergraduate and graduate experience at The University of Alabama. Artists, critics, curators and scholars present public lectures, gallery talks and offer individual critiques to students in our graduate program are intrinsic to our mission of outreach to the university community and beyond.
Along with our Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series, we work in conjunction with the Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art, the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, the Sella-Granata Art Gallery and other UA departments, organizations and individuals to bring vanguard artists and scholars who represent the entire spectrum of art to campus in order to supplement the strength and expertise of the faculty.
Read about our recent visiting artists and scholars.
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See photos of some of our Visiting Artists and Lecturers events!
Recent Visiting Artist/Scholar Events
- March 2023 Birgit Hopfener, art historian
- March 2023 Coulter Fussell, artist, quilter
- March 2023 Carl D’Alvia, sculptor
- February 2023 Krista Clark, artist
- November 2022 Cedric Smith, artist
- October 2022 Julie Malen, artist
- October 2022 Patricia Watts, curator
- September 2022 Rebecca Rutstein, artist
- June 2022 Michi Meko, Boo Gilder, The University of Alabama Gallery and Flow Tuscaloosa
- June 2022 Tony Bingham, Kelly Taylor Mitchell, Paul R. Jones Museum and Flow Tuscaloosa
- March 2022 Jacob Crook, mezzotint artist
- November 2021 Michael Janda, designer, author
- November 2021 Julia Perratore, The Met Cloisters curator, lecture and workshop
- October 2021 Crystal Bridges Museum Tyson Fellows Virtual Roundtable
Dr. Julia Perratore, assistant curator of medieval art at The Met Cloisters, presents a workshop for UA art history students. - October 2021 Julie Nelson Davis, “The Art World of Ukiyo-e: The ‘Pictures of the Floating World’ in Context”
- September 2021 Dangerous Landscapes panel: Christine Bassett, Scientist/Engineer III, for Cherokee Nation Businesses, supporting the NOAA Weather Program Office Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Program, and activist Marshella Hood, Black Belt Citizens Fighting for Health and Justice, Uniontown, Ala. with UA professors Teresa Cribelli (history) and Allison Grant (art)
- August 2021 Rebecca Rutstein, artist talk, “The Intersection of Art & Science”
- April 2021 “Interpreting Enslavement at Historic Sites,” with panelists Brigette Jones, curator of social history at the Tennessee State Museum and Laura Kilcer, curator at Oak Alley in Vacherie, Louisiana, with Dr. Rachel Stephens, associate professor of art history at UA (video at link)
- March 2021 Jonathan Ward, Getty Vocabularies, “The Getty Vocabularies: Access to Art History and Visual Culture Studies Through Multilingual Thesauri.”
- February 2021 Jacqueline E. Jung, “Images of Africans in Gothic Art: Race and Representation in Thirteenth-Century Northern Europe.”
- February 2020 Renee Stout, solo exhibition and gallery talk, with graduate studio visits
- October 2019 William Paul Thomas, solo exhibition and gallery talk, with graduate studio visits
- October 2019 Aida Yuen Wong, “Meditations on Ink: Identities and Expressions in East Asia.”
- August 2019-February 2020 Yang Zeyu, visiting scholar and artist, Department of Chinese Painting at the School of Art of the Qingdao Agricultural University
2018-2019
- March 5, 2019 Iva Gueorguieva: (painting, sculpture), Gorgas Library 205, 7 pm
- MAR 1, 2019 Catherine Zuromskis, keynote address, 24th Annual Graduate Student Symposium in Art History, “Feeling History: Evidence, Affect, and the Visual Culture of the Kennedy Assassination.”
Renee Stout talking in the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, 2020. - FEB 21, 2019 Ben Vida performance, Recital Hall, Moody Music Building, 7:30 pm
- FEB 20, 2019 Ben Vida (visual artist, composer, musician: sound, performance, video, installation, 2D), Gorgas Library 205, 7 pm
- JAN 24, 2019 Michi Meko (multi-disciplinary artist: installation, painting, sculpture, video), Gorgas Library 205, 7 pm
- NOV 28, 2018 Alice Hohenberg Federico
- OCT 22, 2018 Edgar Heap of Birds
- OCT 10, 2018 Anne Keener, Curator
- SEP 11, 2018 Dr. Richard K. Emmerson: “Apocalypse Illuminated”
- SEP 4, 2018 Morten Sonnenborg: “How Architecture is Created in Denmark”
2017-2018
- Dr. Gregory Clark
- Robert Kushner
- Wendy White
- William Hall
- Dr. Rebecca Zorach
- Kathryn Mayo
- Karl Haendel
2016-2017
- Ridley Howard
- Cosmo Whyte
Pace Gallery’s Bill Hall gives a gallery talk at the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center’s UA Gallery. - Kristin Schwain
- Mel Kendrick
- Kimberly Winkle
- James Emmette Neel
- Wassan Al-Khudhairi
- Jim Graham and Laura Tanner Graham
- Chris Staley
- Deborah Luster
2015-2016
- April Bachtel
- Kev Cahill
- Bryan Czibesz
- Israel Davis
- William Downs
- Max Eilbacher
- Alex Henderson
- Lisa Iglesias
- Sophie Lvoff
- Dennis Ritter
- Matt Ziemke
2014-2015
2013-2014
- Katherine Bradford (Sarah Moody Gallery of Art)
- Derek Cracco
- Jay Davis
- Harrison Hickman
- Lonnie Holley
- Jiha Moon
2012-2013
- Cynthia Hahn
- Andrew Hottle (Annual MA in Art History Graduate Student Symposium)
- William Willis (Sarah Moody Gallery artist lecture)
Medievalist Cynthia Hahn speaks to UA graduate students at a roundtable session.
2011-2012
- Yvonne Petkus
- Caroline Seebohm (Sarah Moody Gallery exhibition lecture)
- Justin Cooper
- Brian Novatney (Sarah Moody Gallery artist lecture)
- Ellen Siebers
- James Sherman Brantley (Paul R. Jones Lecture Series)
- Thornton Willis (Sarah Moody Gallery artist lecture)
2010-2011
- Tim Barringer (Annual MA in Art History Graduate Student Symposium)
- Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman
- Howardena Pindell (Paul R. Jones Lecture Series)
- Anthony Castronovo
- Willie Cole (Sarah Moody Gallery artist lecture)
- Sheila Pree Bright (Paul R. Jones Lecture Series)
- Fred Stonehouse (Sarah Moody Gallery artist lecture)
Willie Cole
2009-2010
- Drive-By Press
- Amy Pleasant
- Clive King
- Lester Van Winkle (Sarah Moody Gallery artist lecture)
- Wadsworth Jarrell (Paul R. Jones Lecture Series)
Past Visiting Artists and Lecturers
- Tom Armstrong, Dir. Emeritus, Whitney Museum
- Carrie Barratt, Curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Graham Boettcher, Curator, Birmingham Museum of Art
- Yve-Alain Bois, art historian/educator
- Chakaia Booker, artist
- Santiago Cal, artist/educator
- Mel Chin, artist
- William Christenberry, artist, alumnus
- Les Christensen, artist/curator
- Jerry Cullum, Sr. Editor, Art Papers
- Hamlett Dobbins, artist/educator
- Jack Earl, artist
- Vernon Fisher, artist/educator
- Beverly Fishman, artist/educator
- Peter Flannary, artist/educator
- Sylvie Fortin, Editor, Art Papers
- Linda Francis, artist/educator
William Christenberry in his DC studio. Photo by William T. Dooley. - Cheryl Goldsleger, artist/educator
- Edwin Jager, artist/educator
- Paul R. Jones, collector
- Terri Jones, artist
- John Hitchcock, artist/educator
- Il Young Kim, artist
- Clive King, artist
- Tony Matelli, artist
- Christopher McNulty, artist/educator
- Aimee Miller, artist (Paul R. Jones Lecturer)
- Samuel Mockbee, artist/architect/educator
- David Moos, curator
- Clarence Morgan, artist/educator
- Cornelia Parker, artist
- Fahamu Pecou, artist (Paul R. Jones Artist Lecturer)
- Mario Petrirena, artist (Paul R. Jones Lecturer)
- Judy Pfaff, artist/educator
- Pete Pinnell, artist/educator
- James Ramer, artist/educator
- Helena Reckitt, curator
- Stephen Rosenberg, art dealer
- John Salvest, artist/educator
- Cort Savage, artist/educator
- Tony Scherman, artist
- Barry Schwabsky, art critic/poet
- Patterson Sims, curator/museum director
- elin O’Hara slavick, artist/educator
- Buzz Spector, artist/educator
- Freddie Styles, artist (Paul R. Jones Lecturer)
- Krista Thompson, art historian
- Ursula Von Rydingsvard, artist
- Deborah Willis, artist/educator
- Lance Winn, artist/educator