Allison Smith takes an expansive view of sculpture, combining social practice, performance, and traditional crafts to examine how American history has been constructed and how it may be revised, retold, and reinterpreted.

Cristóbal Martínez's work seeks to reveal the vexing nature of our complex memories, amnesias, behaviors, beliefs, assumptions, choices, and relationships to create experiences that move beyond the human instinct to simplify.

Dread Scott works in a range of media including performance, photography, screen-printing, and video, challenging viewers to reexamine unifying ideals and values of American society, often by focusing on African American experience.

Since the early 1990s, Andrea Zittel has used the arena of her day-to-day life to develop and test prototypes for living structures and situations to illuminate how we attribute significance to chosen structures or ways of life and how arbitrary any choice of structure can be.

Heather Dewey-Hagborg will give a joint talk with Chelsea Manning, the collaborator for her most recent work, Probably Chelsea (2017).

Francis Stark’s deeply autobiographical practice centers on the mediation of self and the intimate spaces of communication. Her work spans many media including drawing, photography, video, collage, and mixed media painting, often combining text and imagery.

Robb Hernández's forthcoming book, "Finding AIDS: Archival Body/Archival Space and the Chicano Avant-garde," examines the role of gender and sexual transgression in the formation of Chicano art.

Hirsch Perlman’s lecture will draw from his latest work, and his developing thought about art and embodiment, and why we cannot help but make meaning, metaphors, and narrative out of anything and everything from simple wood blocks to piles of garbage.

B★A Presentations are short, five minute artist talks where undergraduate art students can present their work to the CMU community and beyond and be inspired by what their fellow students are doing.