2025-2026: Archive: McKinney Visiting Artist Series: Speaker Series: Events: Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design: Indiana University Bloomington

Friday, September 05, 2025

5 p.m.

The McKinney Visiting Artist Series kicks off its 2025-26 season with a panel discussion among three artists who have been guests of the series over the past decade and whose artwork is on view in the Grunwald Gallery in the exhibition "Re:Visit | Celebrating a Decade of McKinney Visiting Artists": Cappy Counard, Yvonne Osei, and Martin Venezky.

Amir H. Fallah

Friday, September 19, 2025

5 p.m.

Amir H. Fallah explores identity, memory, and the layered narratives embedded in objects and images in his painting, sculpture, and large-scale installation. Born in Tehran and based in Los Angeles, the multidisciplinary artist whose work belongs to the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art was the founder and longtime creative director of the art publication Beautiful/Decay.

Glenn Adamson | Soundings: Toshiko Takaezu in Context

Monday, October 06, 2025, 6:30 p.m.—Monday, October 06, 2025, 8 p.m.

Please note special time for this McKinney lecture. Co-curator of “Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within,” Glenn Adamson will explore the renowned ceramic artist’s work, putting her into the context of postwar craft and painting. The exhibition debuted at the Noguchi Museum in New York and is currently on view at the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Marlene True | Upcycling with Purpose: Transforming Materials, Creating Narrative

Friday, October 24, 2025, 5 p.m.—Friday, October 24, 2025, 6 p.m.

In this lecture, jewelry artist and educator Marlene True will share her creative process fueled by a commitment to sustainability and a curiosity about the overlooked. True explores the expressive possibilities of discarded items by transforming them into bold, wearable art that challenges ideas of beauty and value while carrying subtle traces of the materials’ former life.

Miguel Rivera | Graphic Fusion: Mapping and Migration

Friday, November 14, 2025, 5 p.m.—Friday, November 14, 2025, 6 p.m.

In this lecture, artist and educator Miguel Rivera shares the evolution of his artistic practice as it has intersected with his cultural identity. Rivera is Associate Professor and Chair of Printmaking at the Kansas City Art Institute, where he has taught since 2008.

Elana Herzog | Unfolding

Friday, December 05, 2025, 5 p.m.—Friday, December 05, 2025, 6 p.m.

Elana Herzog’s work can be described as a form of domestic archaeology, often engaging architecture and other more intimate forms of material culture to consider aspects of ephemerality, entropy, pleasure and pain. The New York-based artist’s work has been exhibited around the world and reviewed in major publications including Art in America, Artforum, The New York Times, and Hyperallergic.

2025-2026

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