The UNLV Department of Art is thrilled to announce its Fall Artist Lecture Series, a series of public lectures presented by internationally recognized artists, designers, art historians, and curators. These inspiring creative leaders visit the campus to engage with students in the classroom and studios, share their research, facilitate discussions, and offer critique.
Sponsored in part by the College of Fine Arts and the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, this fall marks the 40th anniversary of the department’s esteemed visiting artist lecture series. The series is free and open to the public, and will be presented at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Auditorium and in room C 144 of John S. Wright Hall.
Fall Schedule
- Sept. 11 - Carmen Winant
- Sept.18 - Miguel Novelo*
- Oct. 2 - Audrey Barcio
- Nov. 6 - Danielle SeeWalker*
- Nov. 13 - Alexandra Magnuson
- Nov. 20 - Josephine Halvorson
Thursdays at 7 p.m. in the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Auditorium
*Lecture held in WRI C 144
About the Visiting Speakers
Carmen Winant is an artist and the Roy Lichtenstein Chair of Studio Art at the Ohio State University. Her work utilizes archival and authored photographs to examine feminist care networks, with particular emphasis on intergenerational, multiracial, and sometimes transnational coalition building. Winant's recent projects have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Sculpture Center, Wexner Center of the Arts, ICA Boston, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and el Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo. Winant's artist’s books include My Birth (2018), Notes on Fundamental Joy (2019), and Instructional Photography: Learning How To Live Now (2021); Arrangements, A Brand New End: Survival and Its Pictures (both 2022), and The Last Safe Abortion (2024). Winant is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in photography, a 2020 FCA Artist Honoree and a 2021 American Academy of Arts and Letters award recipient. She is also a community organizer, prison educator, and mother to her two children, Carlo and Rafa, shared with her partner, Luke Stettner.
Miguel Novelo (he/him/el) is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and researcher who focuses on emerging media and community organizing—currently working on algorithmic movies, technoshammanic installations, thermodynamic hypnotism, and friendly computer viruses. Novelo earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2018, followed by a Master of Fine Arts from Stanford University in 2022.
His work has been exhibited at various institutions, including the de Young Museum, the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) in Mexico City, and numerous international film festivals. Currently a lecturer at Stanford University and San Jose State University.
Audrey Barcio is a 2021 Joan Mitchell Fellowship nominee and 2019 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant recipient. She earned her MFA from UNLV and BAE from Herron School of Art and Design and has completed residencies at the Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art, Vermont Student Center and The Rogers Foundation. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings, New Art Examiner, Occhi Magazine, PATTERN, NUVO, and Las Vegas Weekly. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at
Tube Factory Artspace, Syracuse University, Las Vegas Government Center, Echo Arts Bozeman and The Studio at Sahara West, Las Vegas. Her work is included in the collections of the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, One&Only Moonlight Basin, MT, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, South Korea and The Rogers Foundation, Las Vegas. Barcio splits her time between Chicago, IL and Muncie, IN where she is an Assistant Professor at Ball State University.
Danielle SeeWalker is a Húŋkpapȟa Lakȟóta citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation in North Dakota. She is a mother, artist, muralist, writer, curator, activist and businesswoman and is currently based in Denver, Colorado. Her visual artwork often incorporates the use of mixed media and experimentation while incorporating traditional Native American materials, scenes, and messaging. Storytelling is an integral part of her artwork and pays homage to her identity as a Lakȟóta wíŋyaŋ as well as her passion to redirect the narrative to an accurate and insightful representation of contemporary Native America while still acknowledging historical events.
Alongside her work as a visual artist, SeeWalker is a freelance writer and recently published her first book, titled, Still Here: A Past to Present Insight of Native American People & Culture. She is also very dedicated to staying connected and involved to the Native American community on the Denver American Indian Commission for the past five years and two-years as chair. Through her work on the Commission, she has been able to be involved in several pieces of legislation that has directly affected her Native American community – including a law to abolish derogatory Native American mascots in schools (2021) and to create an Office and Liaison for Missing & Murdered Indigenous Relatives (MMIR) investigations (2022 and 2023). Danielle considers herself a “artivist” as she is able to voice many important topics through her artwork but also be boots on the ground to make change happen.
SeeWalker has also been working on a long-term personal project since 2013 with her long-time friend called The Red Road Project. The focus of the work is to document, through words, photographs, and video, what it means to be Native American in the 21st century by capturing inspiring and positive stories of people and communities within Indian Country. She recently evolved that project into a non-profit organization with a division to provide cultural arts opportunities to Native American people residing in urban areas.
Alexandra Magnuson is a multi-faceted creative producer and artist advisor distinguished by her extensive experience working with artist studios, galleries, and new business ventures to realize complex art works and installations. She is currently the Executive Director of Powder Art Foundation in Eden, Utah. She has worked closely with numerous prominent artists, studios, and foundations, including Michael Hezier, Chris Burden, Mary Weatherford, Nancy Rubins, Frank Gehry, and Glenn Kaino. As a long-time artist liaison and salesperson at Gagosian, Alex developed a comprehensive understanding of the stewardship of primary and secondary art markets.
Specializing in large-scale sculpture and installations, Alex has played a key role in the development and ongoing strategy around some of the most well known and staggeringly complex public artworks ever executed. She has extensive experience in virtually every function of a blue-chip gallery, including managing artist and business needs from end-to-end, contributing to and editing publications, pioneering new studio and archival systems, negotiating and creating media strategies, and developing new clients. After Gagosian, she was the director of sales and artist management at Superblue, where she pioneered new ways of producing and monetizing large-scale artist projects.
Josephine Halvorson (she/her) makes art from direct observation, foregrounding the firsthand experience of noticing, describing, and learning from the physical world. She works primarily in painting, but also in sculpture and printmaking.
Halvorson received her MFA from Columbia University in 2007, her BFA from The Cooper Union in 2003, and attended Yale Norfolk in 2002. She is the recipient of several international residencies and fellowships, including a US Fulbright to Vienna, Austria; the Harriet Hale Woolley Award at the Fondation des États-Unis in Paris, France; the first American pensionnaire at the French Academy in Rome at the Villa Medici; and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.
Halvorson’s work is represented by Sikkema Malloy Jenkins, NY, and Peter Freeman, Paris. She has presented work internationally at such institutions as the Storm King Art Center, the ICA Boston, and the Havana Biennale. In 2021 she presented a solo exhibition of site responsive work at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, NM, where she was the Museum’s first artist in residence. In 2024 she presented a solo exhibition at James Fuentes, Los Angeles, accompanied by a paperback monograph.
Her work and practice have been written about widely in online and print periodicals such as The Brooklyn Rail, Frieze, ArtForum, and Hyperallergic, and have appeared in compilation books such as Painting Now by Suzanne Hudson, Vitamin P2 edited by Barry Schwabsky, and Prints and Their Makers by Phil Sanders. Halvorson is a subject of Art21’s documentary series New York Close Up.
Since 2016, Halvorson has been a professor of art and chair of graduate studies in painting at Boston University. She has also taught at The Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, The Cooper Union, Princeton University, the University of Tennessee Knoxville, Columbia University, and Yale University.
About the UNLV Department of Art
A distinctive hub for visual art, graphic design, and art history, the Department of Art is an integral part of a comprehensive educational and cultural experience at UNLV. Students from across campus and hundreds of art, design, and art history majors fill thousands of seats in our courses. Curricular and programmatic offerings address the interests of the extraordinary students at UNLV and provide unique opportunities for innovation, collaboration, and partnership. Students in the Department of Art develop both traditional and contemporary skills that build towards professional practice. Students examine visual and material culture, develop conceptually challenging questions, engage with cutting edge technology, define their individual styles, and imagine expansive possibilities.
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