Art and Architecture
November 19, 2009 - John Harwood is a professor of Art History at Oberlin college, where he specializes in modern and contemporary architectural history.
"Anaesthesia; or, The Chair as Image": A talk by John Harwood, November 19, 2009
November 4, 2009 - Olive Bieringa, founder of the BodyCartography Project, and physicist Bryce Beverlin II talk about 1/2 Life, a project which addresses the environmental problems of nuclear residue and indestructible plastics.
October 15, 2009 - Simon Gikandi is the Robert Schirmer Professor of English at Princeton University. He is currently completing a book on the relation between slavery and the culture of taste.
October 9, 2009 - Jack Becker is founder and Executive Director of Forecast Public Art, established in 1978.
April 27, 2009 - Eric Avila is a professor of History, Chicano Studies and Urban Planning at UCLA. He is author of Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles (2004).
"The Devil in the Medieval Theatrical Flesh": A presentation by Jody Enders, March 6, 2009
February, 2009 - Andréa Stanislav is a professor of Art at the University of Minnesota and practices a multimedia approach to art making, inspired by the language of film, architecture, and pop culture.
February 15, 2009 - Bill Foley is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and a professor of Photography at Marian College in Indianapolis, Indiana.
"Anarchy to Art, a brief 30-year Narrative": A presentation by Bill Foley, February 5, 2009
Conference on Public Art and Democracy, September 26 and 27, 2008
September 16, 2008 - Understanding Spaces - Arijit Sen teaches in the School of Architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
"Public Art as Conversation Starter ": A talk with Jack Becker and Peter Eleey about Speaking of Home on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 in the Macy's Skyroom
January, 2008 - Reggie Prim is a speaker on activist art, arts in the public domain and the community cultural development movement, who leads workshops, designs public arts experiences, and serves as a volunteer leader for a number of cultural organizations in the Twin Cities.
December, 2007 - Jan Estep is a photographer and a professor of Art at the University of Minnesota.
August, 2007 - Michael Gaudio is a professor of Art History at the University of Minnesota and a founding member of the Theorizing Early Modern Studies Collaborative.
September, 2006 - Lynn Lukkas is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art and is a member of the Program in Collaborative Arts at the University of Minnesota.