Visual Artist Series
The Visual Artist Series is collaboratively organized and hosted by faculty and students. Funded by the Student Association through the Campus Arts Council, the series typically brings seven to nine artists to our campus every year. These artists give public lectures, workshops, demos and critiques. Artists from all media are represented in the series. They come from all over the U.S. and Canada and, from time-to-time, other countries.
Fall 2023
Randi Renate, September 28, 2023
Randi Renate, sculptor, will be our first presenter of the fall semester. Ms. Renate
received a B.F.A. in studio art and a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Texas
at Austin in 2014 and moved to Berlin where she maintained a studio and artist-run
project space, TRACE. She is a 2020 M.F.A. graduate of the sculpture department at
the Yale School of Art. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships including Socrates
Sculpture Park in Queens, N.Y., Lighthouse Works on Fishers Island, N.Y., Vermont
Studio Center in Johnson, Vt., Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, Neb., Fountainhead
in Miami, Fla., and Santa Fe Art Institute in Santa Fe, N.M. Randi Renate has shown
both internationally and nationally, with solo and group exhibitions at Socrates Sculpture
Park in Queens, N.Y., and ROCKELMANN& and Galerie im Turm in Berlin, Del. among others.
Her scientific background in biology and oceanography informs her current artistic
research. Operating across installation, sculpture, and an art-science podcast, her
artwork involves a choreographing of bodies within a sculptural framework to conduct
her research on how things are interwoven. To learn more, visit https://randirenate.com/
Ms. Renate will give a presentation on Thursday, September 28, 2023 at 7:30 p.m. in Yokum Hall, room 205.
Trevor King, October 19, 2023
Trevor King, ceramic sculptor, will be our second presenter of the fall semester.
Mr. King lives and works in New York City. He has exhibited work at the Craft and Folk Art
Museum, Los Angeles, Calif., Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, N.Y., Sculpture Space
NYC, Queens, N.Y., and Emmanuel Barbault Gallery, New York, N.Y. King has been a Fellow
at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, N.Y. and an artist-in-residence at MASS MoCA,
North Adams, Mass., Touchstone Center for Crafts, Farmington, Pa., Ox-Bow School of
Art, Saugatuck, Mich., Haystack Mountain School, Deer Isle, Maine, Sculpture Space
NYC, Queens, N.Y., Greenwich House Pottery, New York, N.Y., and The Hambidge Center,
Rabun Gap, Ga. He received a BFA from Slippery Rock University in 2011 and, during
that time, also studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland. King received
an M.F.A. from the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan in
2015. To learn more, visit https://www.trevorkingart.com/
Mr. King will give a presentation on Thursday, October 19, 2023 at 7:30 p.m. in Yokum Hall, room 205.
Seth Drury, November 9, 2023
Seth Drury, is a graphic designer and will be our third presenter of the spring semester.
Mr. Drury, along with business partner Mike Hannigan, own and lead Methodikal, a graphic
design agency and creative shop based in Burlington, Vt. They take an artisan approach
to helping clients tell their story through content development, brand identity work,
logo design, packaging design, brand strategy, copywriting and other creative services.
Mr. Drury will give a presentation on Thursday, November 9, 2023, at 7:30 p.m. in Yokum Hall, room 205.
Lin Xia Jiang, November 30, 2023
Lin Xia Jiang, painter, will be the fourth presenter of the fall 2023 semester. Lin
Xia Jiang is a painter and a professor at Buffalo State College. He has exhibited
his work — including still lifes, portraits and landscapes — nationally and internationally.
Born in the People’s Republic of China, Jiang earned a B.A. and M.A. in philosophy
from Wuhan University in 1982 and 1985 respectively, and a B.F.A. and M.F.A. in painting
and drawing from the University of Utah art department in 1989 and 1991 respectively.
Since 2003, he has been chair of the Department of Fine Arts at Buffalo State, where
he also coordinates the painting and drawing program. His work may be found in numerous
private and public collections.
Mr. Jiang will give a presentation via Zoom on Thursday, November 30, 2023 at 7:30 p.m.
Spring 2024
Kathya Landeros, February 22, 2024
Kathya Landeros, photographer, will be the first presenter of the spring semester.
Ms. Landeros is a Mexican-American photographer and educator. Influenced by her bi-cultural
upbringing, her work of over fifteen years focuses on Latinx communities and the exploration
of history, migration, representation and belonging. Her research has been supported
through fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Fulbright, and residencies
at the Rayko Photo Center and the Center for Photography at Woodstock. Her work has
been exhibited nationally and is held in both private and public collections. She holds a graduate degree in photography from MassArt and a dual undergraduate degree
in English literature and Hispanic studies from Vassar College. To learn more visit,
https://kathyalanderos.com/
Ms. Landeros will give a presentation via Zoom on Thursday, February 22, 2024 at 7:30 p.m.
Kathy Kuehn, March 26, 2024
Kathy Kuehn, printmaker, will be the second presenter of the spring semester. Ms. Kuehn is a printmaker and book artist. She spent 19 years working at Pace Editions
in New York City. There she collaborated with contemporary artists to produce editioned
prints and unique works. She taught book arts and printmaking at Whitman College in
Walla Walla, Washington and at the Oregon College of Arts and Crafts. In 2014 she
moved to Portland, Oregon where she established her own studio. She continues to work
as a freelance printer and bookbinder; she also continues to publish under her own
imprint, The Salient Seedling Press. While teaching at the Oregon College of Art and
Craft she began sewing texts on various fabrics including ribbons. These pieces are
exhibited along with her books. Her books and sewn text pieces can be found in numerous
Book Arts collections.
Ms. Kuehn will give a presentation on Tuesday, March 26, 2024, at 7:30 p.m. in Yokum Hall, room 205.
Caroline Gillaspie, April 4, 2024
Caroline Gillaspie, art historian, will be the third presenter of the spring semester. Ms. Gillaspie is a doctoral candidate in art history at the CUNY Graduate Center specializing in art of the United States and Latin America. Her dissertation examines visual representations of environmental damage and racial injustice caused by the 19th-century Brazil-U.S. coffee trade, and traces the depictions of American coffee culture from plantation to cup through landscapes, cityscapes, and genre scenes. She has received fellowship support for her dissertation research from the Terra Foundation for American Art, the American Antiquarian Society, the Library Company of Philadelphia/Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros and the CUNY Graduate Center. Caroline has held research assistant positions at the Brooklyn Museum and New-York Historical Society, and currently teaches art history courses at CUNY City Tech and Pratt Institute.
Ms. Gillaspie will give a presentation on Thursday, April 4, 2024, at 7:30 p.m. in Yokum Hall, room 205.