{"id":7305,"date":"2025-01-13T17:02:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T17:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/art\/?p=7305"},"modified":"2025-01-14T18:34:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T18:34:59","slug":"mfa-guest-artist-lecture-series-spring-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/art\/2025\/01\/mfa-guest-artist-lecture-series-spring-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"MFA Guest Artist Lecture Series: Spring 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
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All Visiting Artist Lectures will take place
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\nWestside Campus: 43 Lake Avenue Extension, Danbury, CT<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Jim Lee<\/b>
\n<\/b><\/a>INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTIST
\nTue, Feb 4, 2025<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Jim\u00a0Lee\u00a0is an interdisciplinary artist working with multiple materials and forms. Born in Berrien Springs, Michigan, he received his BA degree from Hope College (Michigan) and his MFA degree from the University of Delaware. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, and is a professor of painting and drawing at Hofstra University.<\/p>\n

Since 1998, Jim\u2019s work has been shown throughout the U.S. in galleries and museums, including the Neuberger Museum of Art and the Islip Art Museum. International exhibitions have been held in England, France, Belgium, Germany, and Japan. He is represented by Nicelle Beauchene Gallery in NYC, where he has had six solo shows, most recently in September 2024. From the press release for that show, \u201dLee challenges notions of painting as object and painting as experimentation. A promiscuous reverence for found and foraged materials gives Lee\u2019s work a recognizable playfulness . . .\u201d Jim is a recipient of awards, including artist residencies from the Farpath Foundation in Dijon, France, and from the Edward Albee Foundation in Montauk, NY.<\/p>\n

Since 2001, Jim\u2019s work has been reviewed in numerous publications: The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Art in America, Artforum, New York Magazine, Huffington Post, Brooklyn Rail, and Hyperallergic.<\/p>\n

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Ying Li
\n<\/b><\/a>PAINTER
\nMon, Feb 24, 2025<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Ying Li was born in Beijing, China, and studied traditional landscape painting at Anhui Normal University, where she received her BFA and then taught for six years. She immigrated to the U.S. in 1983 and received her MFA from Parsons School of Design. She lives and works in NYC and Haverford, PA, where she is the Phlyssa Koshland Professor in Fine Arts at Haverford College, where she has taught since 1997.<\/p>\n

Ying\u2019s work is represented by Pamela Salisbury Gallery in Hudson, NY, Gross McCleaf Gallery in Philadelphia, and Alice Gauvin Gallery in Portland, Maine. It has been featured in international exhibitions in the U.S., Switzerland, Italy, Ireland and France. In NYC, she has shown with several galleries, including Lohin Geduld, Elizabeth Harris, Tibor de Nagy, and Lori Bookstein Fine Art. She has been in group shows at the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Academy Museum, where she received the Edwin Palmer Memorial Prize for Painting and the Henry Ward Ranger Fund Purchase Award.<\/p>\n

Ying has received many residency awards, including Artist in Residence at Hollins University (in 2024), Dartmouth College, Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome, and various residency fellowships in Switzerland, Spain, Ireland, France, Canada, and the U.S. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Art Forum, Art in America, and Hyperallergic, <\/em>among others.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Jenny Lynn McNutt
\n<\/strong><\/a>INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTIST
\nWed, April 2, 2025<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Jenny Lynn McNutt is a multimedia artist living in Brooklyn and upstate NY. Her sculpture, painting, and performance work have been shown in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the U.S., most recently at Pamela Salisbury Gallery in Hudson, NY, and the Painting Center in NYC. She is the recipient of many residencies abroad, including Africa, Netherlands, Spain, India, and China, where time spent in cultures of storytelling and dance informs her work.<\/p>\n

In 1994 Jenny Lynn was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to study and work in West and Central Africa. She also received an Eastman Foundation Grant for her documentary work in West Africa, with sojourns in Ivory Coast and Cameroon.<\/p>\n

In 2018, 2019, and this year, she has been a guest artist at Taoxichuan International Artists Studio in China, with her work in their permanent collection.<\/p>\n

Other awards include a New York Foundation for the Arts Fiscal Sponsorship, a Rothman Grant, a William Hillman Foundation Grant, and the Mercedes Matter\/ Ambassador Middendorf Award (NY Studio School). She was also awarded U.S. residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Harwood Museum in New Mexico, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, and the Watershed Center for Ceramics in Maine. Jenny Lynn received her MFA from Yale School of Art and teaches at New York Studio School.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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MFA Faculty Artist Talk<\/h3>\n
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Amber Scoon
\n<\/strong><\/a>INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTIST
\nMon, April 7, 2025<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Amber Scoon makes art, books, and events. She is Assistant Professor of Art and Borgia Gallery Director at Elms College in Chicopee, MA, and also teaches Graduate Studies in Art History at WCSU. She is the John Berger Fellow at the European Graduate School, where she received her Ph.D. in Philosophy, Art, and Critical Thought. She received her MFA from American University\u2019s two-year program in Italy and her Bachelor of Science from New York University.<\/p>\n

During the pandemic, Amber studied Sustainable Cultural Heritage at American University in Rome, Italy, working on a project, \u201cRevive the Spirit of Mosul.\u201d She was the Goetemann Distinguished Artist in 2022 at the Rocky Neck Artist Colony in Gloucester, MA. She has lectured at the Cape Ann Museum and was a visiting artist lecturer at Mount Gretna School of Art. For several years, Amber and artist Glenn Goldberg have been collaborating under the name Snow Drift. They received a 2022-23 Faculty Fellowship through Social Practice CUNY, and intend to co-author the second edition of \u201cQuestion Mark\u201d, published by Atropos Press.<\/p>\n

Most recently, Amber received a grant from the Masachussetts Cultural Council to curate an exhibition celebrating diverse cultural heritage. She continues her own studio practice and exhibited a handmade book, \u201cDear Margaret\u201d at Northhampton Arts Center last year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Eric Velasquez
\n<\/b><\/a>ILLUSTRATOR
\nTues, April 22, 2025<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Eric Velasquez is an illustrator who lives and works in New York. He was born in Spanish Harlem, the son of Afro-Puerto Rican parents, and attended the High School of Art and Design. He earned his BFA from the School of Visual Arts and studied with Harvey Dinnerstein at the Art Students\u2019 League. He has illustrated over 30 children\u2019s books and teaches book illustration at FIT in NYC.<\/p>\n

Eric began his career as a freelance illustrator in 1984, and in the first 12 years, completed over 300 book jackets and interior illustrations. These included the complete series of Encyclopedia Brown<\/em> and The Ghost Writers<\/em>, among others. In 1997, he illustrated his first picture book, The Piano Man<\/em>, by Debbie Chocolate, for which he won the Coretta-Scott King\/John Steptoe Award for New Talent. Many books and awards have followed. He received the NAACP Image Award in 2010 for Our Children Can Soar<\/em>, on which he collaborated with 12 notable illustrators of children\u2019s literature. He also wrote and illustrated Grandma\u2019s Records<\/em> and Grandma\u2019s Gift<\/em>, which won the 2011 Pura Belpre Award for Illustration. His book Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library<\/em>, by Carole Boston Weatherford, won the 2018 Walter Award, as well as the Golden Kite Award.<\/p>\n

Eric\u2019s recent books include Ruth Objects: The Life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg<\/em>, by Doreen Rappaport, and She Was The First! The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm<\/em>, by Katheryn Russell Brown, which won the 2021 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature for Children. Eric\u2019s latest book Going Places:<\/em> Victor Hugo Green and his Glorious Book<\/em> by Tonya Bolden has earned five starred reviews.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>

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