Walter Scott: Visiting Artist Lecture
March 16, 2027 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Co-presented by the Carnegie Museum of Art and the CMU School of Art
Join us for an evening with artist Walter Scott as he shares an in-depth look at his practice and the works featured in If the word we: 59th Carnegie International. Lectures are free and open to the public.
About the Artist
Walter Scott (born 1985, Kahnawà:ke, Canada; lives in Montreal, Canada) is an interdisciplinary artist working across comics, drawing, video, and installation. His comic series Wendy has been featured in Art in America, ArtReview, The New York Times, and The New Yorker. Recent exhibitions include Reframed into Oblivion, Naughton Gallery, Belfast; Open Ended, Painted Shut, Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art; and Indian Theater, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. His recently completed short film, Organza’s Revenge, has been presented at indieLisboa, Lisbon; Vancouver International Film Festival; European Media Arts Festival, Innsbruck, Austria; ImagiNative Film Festival, Toronto; and Available Light Film Festival, Whitehorse, Yukon.
Finding the Carnegie Museum of Art Theater
The theater is located on the ground floor of the Carnegie Museum of Art. From the main entrance of the museum, head down the stairs to the right of the reception desk and the theater will be at the end of the corridor. If you are entering from the parking lot at the rear of the museum, the theatre will be immediately to your right.
About If the word we: 59th Carnegie International
On view May 2, 2026, through January 3, 2027
Organized every four years by Carnegie Museum of Art, the Carnegie International is the longest-running exhibition of international art in North America. The 59th edition is the most collaborative and far-reaching to date — a clear expression of the museum’s founding commitment to the art and artists of our time, at once grounded in our locality and extending globally. Titled If the word we, the 59th Carnegie International considers the first-person plural as an open and evolving proposition — one shaped by listening, translation, and transformation — bringing together artistic practices that engage shared experience, circulation, and worlds in transition. Drawing from a commissioned catalogue essay by writer Haytham el-Wardany, the exhibition approaches “we” not as a unified subject but as a complex and porous position, attentive to contradiction and change. Across a wide range of media, from painting, photography, and sculpture, to installation, video, performance, and theater, participating artists traverse cultural, political, intellectual, and spiritual geographies that extend beyond national boundaries. The projects emerge through everyday acts, materials, and environments, offering spatially expansive portraits of collective life in the present.
About the Visiting Artist Lecture Series
The Carnegie Mellon School of Art Lecture Series is made possible in part by Elizabeth (Thompson) and Thomas M. Cox (A’29) Distinguished Artists Funds, Robert L. Lepper Distinguished Lecture in Creative Inquiry, and Orville M. Winsand Lecture for Critical Studies. Carnegie Mellon makes every effort to provide accessible facilities and programs for individuals with disabilities. This publication can be made available in an alternate format upon request. For accommodations, contact the School of Art at schoolofart@cmu.edu or 412.268.2409. Lecture and event details are subject to change or cancellation.