Lectures

Lecture Series: Frances Stark

McConomy Auditorium 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

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.

STUDIO Lecture: Jenny Odell

Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry CFA 111, 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Jenny Odell's work combines the mining of online imagery with writing and research, usually in an attempt to highlight the material nature of our modern networked existence.

Lecture Series: Robb Hernández

Kresge Theatre 4919 Frew Street, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

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.

STUDIO Lecture: Kelli Anderson

Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry CFA 111, 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Kelli Anderson is an artist/designer and tinkerer who draws, photographs, cuts, prints, codes, and creates a variety of designed things for herself and others.

Meme-ish: Art, Evolution, and Un-exceptionalism

College of Fine Arts, 214 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

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

Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry CFA 111, 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

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.

STUDIO Lecture: Mimi Onuoha

Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry CFA 111, 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Mimi Onuoha is an artist and researcher examining the implications of data collection and computational categorization.

Artist Talk: Claire Fontaine

Giant Eagle Auditorium 5000 Forbes Avenue, Baker Hall, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Taking its name from a French publisher of school stationery, Claire Fontaine is an artistic partnership between James Thornhill and Fulvia Carnevale, formed in 2004. Their work responds to global events, politics and society through the use and misuse of powerful symbols and status objects.

STUDIO Lecture: Lesley Flanigan

Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry CFA 111, 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Inspired by the physicality of sound, experimental musician Lesley Flanigan builds her own instruments using minimal electronics, microphones, and speakers.

Something Nothing

Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry CFA 111, 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

"Something Nothing" is a presentation of papers by first year MFA candidates.