Aaron S. Coleman. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Kyle Mittan/University of Arizona

All are invited to a series of visiting artist lectures this week and next at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, kicking off with multi-disciplinary artist Aaron S. Coleman on Wednesday March 19, whose exhibition Aaron S. Coleman: Prints and Collages 2013-2025 is on view through Friday in the Dodd Galleries. Coleman is on site this week working with Professor Jon Swindler, students, and invited classes to produce a limited edition print. His lecture on Wednesday afternoon will culminate with a closing reception for his exhibition.

Next Thursday March 27, during Dawg Day of Giving, the Ceramic Student Organization presents artists ChengOu Yu and Jing Huang in the Ceramics Building followed by open demos.

Later that afternoon, experimental painter Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, hosted by Associate Professor Ben Britton, will speak in our Main Building after a series of studio visits with graduate students in the MFA program.

Read on for details!

Visiting Artist Lecture and Exhibition Closing Reception with Aaron S. Coleman

March 19, 5:30 pm

Lamar Dodd School of Art room S150, 270 River Road

Aaron S. Coleman (American, b. 1985) is a multi-disciplinary artist, Associate Professor, and Kenneth E. Tyler Endowed Chair at the Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis. He received his MFA from Northern Illinois University in 2013. At the Dodd Galleries this spring, Coleman presents Aaron S. Coleman: Prints and Collages 2013-2025, a selection of prints and collages from the past twelve years of his practice: an ongoing scrutinization of historical and contemporary systems of racial and class-based suppression in the US. In this work, Coleman seamlessly blends the language of comics/coloring books, horror vacui and classical depictions of the figure into luminous images which confront viewers with uncomfortable truths and salient reminders of the ongoing strain of ongoing hierarchical systems—systems which damage our communities and undermine our culture.

Coleman has participated in international residencies and exhibitions and received numerous awards for his work in printmaking, sculpture, and installation. He is the 2021 recipient of the Black Box Press Foundation Art as Activism Grant and was nominated for a 2022 Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship. His work can be found in the collections of the Janet Turner Print Museum, the Ino-cho Paper Museum, The Yekaterinburg Museum of Art, the National Library of France, and the Artist Printmaker/Photographer Research Archive at Texas Tech University, among others.

Jing Huang, Loop #12 / 2023 / 18x18.5x12.5″ / Glazed stoneware

Visiting Artists Lecture and Demos with ChengOu Yu and Jing Huang

March 27, 9 am lecture, 10 am - noon and 1 - 3:30 pm demos

Lamar Dodd School of Art Ceramics Building, Room 100 (Located behind the Performing Arts Center Parking Deck)

Originally from China. ChengOu Yu received his BA in Ceramic Design from Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute (China) in 2012 and his Advanced Diploma with honor in Crafts and Design - Ceramics from Sheridan College (Canada) in 2015. In 2020, he graduated from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University with an MFA in ceramic art. His trans-national experience impacts his role as an artist. His work and research focus on iconography, culture contract and conflicts, system and logic, and the concept of space. Yu has exhibited his work at numerous venues in the United States, Canada, and Asia and has works in public collections, including Alfred Ceramic Art Museum (Alfred, NY, USA), Art Gallery of Burlington (Burlington, ON, Canada), Liling Ceramic Valley Museum (Liling, Hunan, China), Belger Art Center (Kansas City, MO, USA) and Jingdezhen Ceramic University (Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, China).

Born and raised in Guilin, China, Jing Huang is a ceramic artist currently living and working in Charlotte, North Carolina. She received degrees from Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute in China (BA, Ceramic Art, 2012), Sheridan College in Canada (Diploma, Crafts and Design - Ceramics, 2015), and Alfred University in the US (MFA, Ceramic Art, 2020). Jing has lectured, curated exhibitions, conducted workshops and exhibited extensively throughout the US, Canada, China and the UK. The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA), and Ceramics Monthly Magazine featured Jing as an Emerging Artist in 2023. Jing’s work is included in private and public collections including the permanent collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, Durham University Oriental Museum, and Manchester Metropolitan University Special Collections Museum.

Artworks by Molly Zuckerman-Hartung. Courtesy of the artist.

Visiting Artist Lecture with Molly Zuckerman-Hartung

March 27, 5:30 pm

Lamar Dodd School of Art room S151, 270 River Road

Molly Zuckerman-Hartung is a painter and writer who grew up in Olympia, Washington and participated in Riot Grrrl in her formative years. She attended the Evergreen State College in the 1990s, which introduced her to holistic structural ideas about aesthetics and politics. She makes paintings and cuts them up and pieces them back together with other paintings. Zuckerman-Hartung makes paintings about a very wide range of topics. Through an intensive process of situated criticality and curiosity, she seeks out knowledge of her subject by painting it.

She has shown at The Blaffer Museum in Houston, TX, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, The 2014 Whitney Biennial, Kadel Willborn in Karlsruhe, Germany etc. In 2021 she opened a mid-career survey show at the Blaffer in Houston, Texas, Comic Relief, accompanied by a monograph. She was a full time senior critic at Yale School of Art until 2021, and is now teaching part time at Yale and RISD, as well as low res MFA advising at various schools around the country. She is a frequent guest lecturer at schools including, in recent years, UCLA, Hunter College at CUNY, The University of Ohio, Cranbrook, University of Alabama, the SAIC Low Residency Program, and Cornell College. Her work is in the collection at The Walker Museum in Minneapolis, The Carnegie in Pittsburgh, The Booth School of Business at University of Chicago, and the Berkeley Art Museum. Zuckerman-Hartung is represented by Corbett vs Dempsey in Chicago.