{"id":7674,"date":"2026-01-13T19:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T19:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/art\/?p=7674"},"modified":"2026-02-19T17:39:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:39:37","slug":"spring-2026-mfa-guest-artist-lecture-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/art\/2026\/01\/spring-2026-mfa-guest-artist-lecture-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring 2026 \u2013 MFA Guest Artist Lecture Series"},"content":{"rendered":"
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All Visiting Artist Lectures will take place
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Rudy Gutierrez<\/b><\/a>
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\nWed, Feb 4, 2026<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Rudy Gutierrez is an award-winning American illustrator and educator born in Bronx, NY, of Puerto Rican heritage. He has created artworks for films and performances, U.S. Postage stamps, book covers, posters, picture books, and LP \/ CD covers. His artwork for Santana\u2019s hit album Shaman<\/em> was used as a set design at the 2002 Super Bowl half-time show, and his paintings were commissioned for the film Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In 2019, Rudy\u2019s paintings were featured as the Curatorial Spotlight at the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum in Mesa, Arizona. His work was shown at the Norman Rockwell Museum as part of the Unity Project Exhibition 2020, an initiative of the museum dedicated to an inclusive America. He was also featured in Imprinted: Illustrating Race<\/em> in 2022 and 2025 at the Delaware Art Museum. The work will also be on exhibit at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, TN, in 2026. Imprinted<\/em> explores how the printed image has both challenged and reinforced cultural stereotypes in the United States.<\/p>\n

Rudy\u2019s art is in many public and private collections, including those of musical icons Carlos Santana, Clive Davis, and Wayne Shorter. His awards include: Dean Cornwell Recognition Award; Distinguished Educator in the Arts Award; Society of Illustrators Gold Medal; Caldecott Honor Award; Africana Book Award; and Pura Belpre Award for his children\u2019s books. In October 2025, Rudy was inducted into the prestigious Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame. He is a Professor Emeritus at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, and has lectured at various institutions internationally.<\/p>\n

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Fritz Horstman<\/b><\/a>
\n<\/b>INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTIST
\nWed, Feb 25, 2026<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Fritz Horstman is an artist, curator, and educator based in Bethany, Connecticut, where he is also Education Director at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. He received his BA from Kenyon College and his MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art. His work has been shown throughout the US and in Germany, Norway, Russia, and France.<\/p>\n

Recent solo exhibitions of his sculptures, videos, performances, and works on paper have been held at the New Britain Museum of American Art in New Britain, CT; Municipal Bonds gallery in San Francisco; Planthouse gallery in Manhattan; and Jennifer Terzian Gallery in Litchfield, CT. An exhibition of his Folded Palladiums<\/em> will open at Municipal Bonds in March 2026. Recent awards and artist-in-residencies include Tusen Takk, The Arctic Circle Residency, and The Bauhaus Residency.<\/p>\n

Fritz\u00a0has curated exhibitions across Europe and the U.S., including Anni Albers: In Thread and On Paper<\/em>, a traveling show most recently at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, TX. He also curated Becoming Trees <\/em>at Concord Art in Concord, MA. As Education Director at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, he is the author of Interacting with Color: A Practical Guide to Josef Albers\u2019s Color Experiments<\/em>, published by Yale University Press in 2024. He\u00a0has lectured and given workshops at l'\u00c9cole des Arts D\u00e9coratifs in Paris; Lebanese American University in Beirut; The Royal Academy of Art in London; Museum of Modern Art in New York; Yale University; Princeton University; and many other institutions.<\/p>\n

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Glenn Goldberg<\/b><\/a>
\n<\/b>PAINTER
\nWed, April 1, 2026<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Glenn Goldberg is a NYC artist and musician who was born in Bronx, NY. He studied at the New York Studio School and earned his BA and MFA degrees from Queens College, CUNY. He has taught at Cooper Union, New York Studio School, and Queens College, where he was Professor and Chair of Graduate Studio Art. He has also been a panelist and visiting artist for numerous MFA painting programs in the U.S. In June of this summer, he will teach at Umbria Contemporary Arts in Italy, a new art center and school in the medieval village of Monte Castello di Vibio.<\/p>\n

A recipient of many awards, Glenn has received grants from the Edward Albee Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, Sharpe-Walentas, Urban Glass, and the National Endowment for the Arts. His work has been reviewed in<\/p>\n

The New York Times, LA Times, New Yorker<\/em>, and Chicago Tribune<\/em>, among others. In Hyperallergic, <\/em>art historian Jennifer Samet described his paintings as \u201cethereal\u201d, as a \u201cmeeting point of the ordinary and the other\u201d.<\/p>\n

Glenn is a member of The National Academy of Design and is currently represented by Chris Sharp in Los Angeles and The Approach in London. He has shown extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe, with work in many museum collections, including: the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Guggenheim Museum; the Brooklyn Museum; the National Gallery of Art; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

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Hangama Amiri<\/b><\/a>
\n<\/b>INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTIST
\nWed, April 29, 2026<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Hangama\u00a0Amiri, born in Peshawar, Pakistan, is an Afghan-Canadian artist. She works predominantly in textiles to explore ideas of home and the impact of gender, social norms, and geopolitical conflict on women's lives in Afghanistan and the diaspora. Using a painterly approach to color and materials, she examines how everyday objects, such as a passport, a vase, and celebrity postcards, are imbued with cultural memory and carry political and personal significance.<\/p>\n

Hangama earned her MFA from Yale University in 2020. She received her BFA from NSCAD University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and was a Canadian Fulbright and Post-Graduate Fellow at Yale\u2019s School of Arts and Sciences in 2015-2016. Last year, she was shortlisted for the 2025 Sobey Art Award, Canada\u2019s premier contemporary visual arts prize, in an exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada.<\/p>\n

Hangama\u2019s work has been shown nationally and internationally since 2017, with solo shows in the U.S., Canada, Italy, France, Germany, and the UK. Recent exhibitions include the Esker Foundation, Calgary; Toronto Biennial 2024; M\u00f6nchehaus Museum Goslar, Germany; Aga Khan Museum, Toronto; and Sharjah Biennial 15, United Arab Emirates. In 2023, her solo exhibition A Homage to Home<\/em> was held at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, CT, with a published catalog. It was reviewed by The New York Times<\/em>, and traveled to the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City. Hangama is a recipient of multiple grants, awards, and artist residencies, along with work in public collections, including the Denver Art Museum.<\/p>\n

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