Georgina Treviño
Thursday, September 18, 2025
6:00 p.m.
Devasthali Hall Bleachers

Multidisciplinary artist, jeweler and educator, Georgina Treviño, will be offering a lecture on Thursday, September 18 at 6pm MST at Devasthali Hall at the bleachers. All events are free and open to the NMSU community and the public. This event is organized by the Visiting Artist Committee, sponsored by the NMSU Department of Art and the University Art Museum, and paid for by the Lilian Steinman Fund. 
About the Artist:  Georgina Treviño is from Tijuana, Mexico and is currently based in San Diego, California. She earned a BA in Applied Design with an emphasis in Jewelry and Metalsmithing from San Diego State University in 2014.
Treviño’s work has been featured in publications including The Los Angeles Times, Elle, Vogue, Purple Magazine, and various book anthologies. She has collaborated with high-profile celebrities such as Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Bad Bunny, Olivia Rodrigo, Rosalía, Bella Hadid, Lizzo, Doja Cat, and Kali Uchis. Her brand collaborations include Nike, E.l.f. Cosmetics, Bimba y Lola, Converse, Guess, and Spotify.

Can't attend in person? Join us via zoom: https://linktr.ee/NMSU_VAS (registration required)

https://georginatrevinojewelry.com/

Ebitenyefa Baralaye
Monday, October 7, 2024; 6 PM
Location: Devasthali Hall Bleacher
Register for access to the public Zoom link here: https://nmsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUkde6sqT8qHdLsYpAmSR_bLPFwk4tbD-9_

Ebitenyefa Baralaye is a ceramicist, sculptor, designer, and educator. His work explores cultural, spiritual, and material translations of objects, text, bodies and symbols interpreted through a diaspora lens and abstracted around the aesthetics of craft and design. He received a BFA in ceramics from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA in ceramics from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Baralaye’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at Friedman Benda Gallery (New York), David Klein Gallery (Detroit), Shoshana Wayne Gallery

Carolyn Salas  CANCELLED!
Thursday, September 26, 2024, 6 PM
Location: Devasthali Hall Bleachers and online via Zoom.
Register for access to the public Zoom link here: https://nmsu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qAxkevkARhidjrth3M4VSA

In collaboration with the Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series and the University Art Museum, exhibiting artist Carolyn Salas will present an lecture on her artwork, research, and the collaborative processes behind her latest work for the upcoming museum exhibition, "Night Vision."

Carolyn Salas crafts multidimensional chromatic sculptures that oscillate between geometric abstraction and figuration. Drawing inspiration from healing therapies and dream analysis, Salas composes forms using a fresh lexicon of symbols and materials. Her work references themes of ritual, female strength and resilience, mental health, and art history.

Salas holds a BFA in Sculpture from the College of Santa Fe in New Mexico and an MFA from Hunter College in New York. She is represented by Mrs. Gallery in New York and Brintz Gallery in Palm Beach, Florida. Her work has been featured in numerous national and international exhibitions, including The Hole Gallery in New York, NY; the Berkshire Museum in Massachusetts; the Torrance Art Museum in California; Ever Gold [Projects] in San Francisco, CA; Leo Konig Gallery and Kasey Kaplan Gallery in New York City; Towson University in Baltimore, MD; and Páramo Gallery in Guadalajara, Mexico, among others. Salas has participated in residencies at the Abrons Art Center A.I.R. Space Program, The NARS Foundation, and the Blue Mountain Center, among others. She is also a recipient of the Chashama Studio Space award and the Elizabeth Foundation Studio Program/Space award. Born in Hollywood, CA, Carolyn Salas now lives and works in Brooklyn and Upstate New York.

The Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series is sponsored by the NMSU Department of Art in the College of Arts and Sciences and funded by the Lilian Steinman Visiting Artist Fund.

For more information on Carolyn, please visit her website: 
https://carolynsalas.com/home.html

Yeohyun Ahn
Tuesday, September 3, 2024; 6 PM
Location: Devasthali Hall Bleacher
Register for access to the public Zoom link here: https://nmsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEtfu-pqDMoE9UgdpNm7QUWvBRc0yC7ZI1k

Yeohyun Ahn is an award-winning graphic designer, educator, and researcher in collaboration with creative coding, diversity, and global leadership. She leads several research projects: the interdisciplinary typography project TYPE+CODE Series; a multidisciplinary project to bring awareness to Asian female faculty in America titled Social Homelessness on US campuses; and Evolving Graphic Design to bring academic diversity. Ahn received the SEGD Educator Award in 2022. Featured in the Washington Post, PRINT, New York Times Magazine, Creator’s Project, Designboom.com, etc.
http://yeoahn.com/designandchange/pages/about/

The Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series is sponsored by the NMSU Department of Art in the College of Arts and Sciences and funded by the Lilian Steinman Visiting Artist Fund.

For more information on Yeohyun Ahn, please visit her website: 
http://yeoahn.com/designandchange/pages/about/

Kelly Ann Temple
Lecture on 6PM, Monday, October 9, 2023
Location: NMSU Devasthali Hall Bleacher

Zoom: https://nmsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZElf-iprD4tHdygysPv1dwLHGQuye9xqEoR#/registration

Kelly Ann Temple [she/her] is an artist, educator, and jeweler who is interested in our relationship with medical interventions; she is both fascinated by and fearful of the body’s ability to adapt, accept, reject, and repair. She works in materials and forms that reframe her thoughts about the disparate connections between the organic and inorganic, living and non-living, the human and machine. Her work addresses

ideas of surface, acceptance, and transformation as it captures intimate moments where the biological and mechanical touch.

She is the head of Jewelry and Metalsmithing at the University of Central Oklahoma as Assistant Professor, and received her MFA at San Diego State University. Kelly’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is currently represented by Intro in Amsterdam, 108 Contemporary in Tulsa, OK, and Baltimore Jewelry Center.

https://www.kellyanntemple.com

Yeohyun Ahn
Lecture on 6PM, Monday, September 18, 2023
Location: NMSU HSS Room 101A

is an award-winning graphic designer, educator, and researcher in collaboration with creative coding, diversity, and global leadership. She leads several research projects: the interdisciplinary typography project TYPE+CODE Series; a multidisciplinary project to bring awareness to Asian female faculty in America titled Social Homelessness on US campuses; and Evolving Graphic Design to bring academic diversity. Ahn received the SEGD Educator Award in 2022. Featured in the Washington Post, PRINT, New York Times Magazine, Creator’s Project, Designboom.com, etc., Published in Graphic Design: The New Basics, Type on Screen, and Data-Driven Graphic Design and presented and exhibited at SIGGRAPH, Leonardo (MIT Press), IEEE VIS, ISEA, AIGA, SEGD, Atypi, Etc. Ahn holds an MFA in Graphic Design from MICA. She is on committees for the CAA Annual Conference and the Academic Task Force of the Society of Experiential Graphic Design.

http://yeoahn.com/designandchange/pages/about/

 Yuni Kim Lang

Artist Lecture(In-person): Eric J. García
6PM, Monday, November 7, 2022
Location: NMSU HSS Room 101A

Artist Lecture(In-person): Qualeasha Wood
6PM, Monday, September 26, 2022
Location: NMSU HSS Room 101A

Artist Lecture(Virtural): Trenton Doyle Hancock
6PM, Thursday, September 15, 2022
Location: On ZOOM

Artist Lecture: WANG Chen
Live & On Zoom, 6PM Tuesday, October 12, 2021
NMSU HSS Room 101A

Please join the NMSU Department of Art and the University Art Museum in welcoming WANG Chen as our first artist lecture of the Fall 2021 season on both Zoom and live, Tuesday, October 12, 2021. WANG Chen was born in China and is a multimedia artist currently living and working in NYC. Chen makes costumes and props for her video and builds unimaginable spaces using virtual reality. She received a BFA in painting from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2014 and an MFA in photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2018. Chen is currently a resident at the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program.  Read more about Chen by clicking here

Artist Lecture: Jennifer Ling Datchuk
Live & On Zoom, 6PM Monday, October 25, 2021
NMSU HSS Room 101A 

Please join the NMSU Department of Art and the UAM for an artist lecture with the artist Jennifer Ling Datchuk. Datchuk is an artist born in Warren, Ohio and raised in Brooklyn, New York.  Her work is an exploration of her layered identity – as a woman, a Chinese woman, as an “American,” as a third culture kid. Trained in ceramics, Datchuk works with porcelain and other materials often associated with traditional women’s work, such as textiles and hair, to discuss fragility, beauty, femininity, intersectionality, identity, and personal history. Datchuk holds an MFA in Artisanry from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and a BFA in Crafts from Kent State University. She is an Assistant Professor of art at Texas State University and lives and maintains a studio practice in San Antonio, Texas. Read more about Datchuk: Click here

Artist Lecture: Marie Alarcón
Live & On Zoom, 6PM Monday, November 9, 2021
NMSU HSS Room 101A

Please join the NMSU Department of Art and the UAM for an artist lecture with the artist Marie Alarcón. Marie Alarcón is an experimental video artist trained in Documentary Filmmaking and Time Based Media working as a community media educator and producer in Philadelphia since 2009. Alarcón’s work looks at hidden histories through the lens of place and its production. Her expansive process oriented practice often includes collaboration with dancers and musicians, bridging performance, sound, and assemblage/collage. They are currently an artist in residence at Roswell AIR, in Roswell, NM. Read more about about Alarcón by clicking here. 

Artist Lecture: Emily Cobb

Please join the NMSU Department of Art for an artist lecture with Emily Cobb. Cobb is a jewelry designer and maker living in Providence, Rhode Island. She received her Master of Fine Arts in Metals/Jewelry/CAD-CAM from Tyler School of Art in 2012. Her work has been featured on the cover of Metalsmith Magazine and in publications such as Digital Handmade: Craftsmanship in the New Industrial Revolution, and exhibited internationally in museums such as the Racine Art Museum, Bellevue Arts Museum, and HOW Art Museum. Emily is currently an Assistant Professor of Jewelry and Metals at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston.

Artist Lecture: Micahel Waugh

Please join the NMSU Department of Art and the University Art Museum in welcoming Michael Waugh as our first artist lecturer of the spring season on Zoom, Wednesday, January 27, 2021.
Michael Waugh lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He holds a BA in history from the University of Texas, an MFA in creative writing from Texas State University, and an MA in painting from New York University. For ten years, he helped run the non-profit gallery, Momenta Art in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. His work has been reviewed by the New York Times, Art in America, and ARTNews.

Artist Lecture: Abby Hepner

Please join the NMSU Department of Art for an artist lecture with Abby Hepner. Hepner is an artist and educator. Her artistic practice examines health, technology, and our relationship with place through photography, video, and installation-based work. She frequently works at the intersection of art and science, investigating biopolitics and the use of health as a currency. Hepner holds undergraduate degrees in Art and Psychology from the University of Utah and an MFA in Photography from the University of New Mexico. She has served as a juror for several national exhibitions and is a content contributor for Strange Fire Collective. Her work has been exhibited widely in such venues as the Mt. Rokko International Photography Festival, SITE Santa Fe, the University of Buffalo Art Galleries, and the Lianzhou Foto Festival. Her monograph, The Light at the End of History, will be published by Daylight Books in 2021. She is Assistant Professor of Art and Area Head of Photography at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

Artist Lecture: Jennifer Morla

Please join the NMSU Department of Art for an artist lecture with Jennifer Morla. Morla is President and Creative Director of Morla Design, San Francisco. With over 300 awards of excellence, she has been recognized by virtually every organization in the field of visual communication. She is the recipient of design’s most honored awards: The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian National Design Award and the AIGA Medal.

Artist Lecture: Taekyeom Lee

Please join the NMSU Department of Art for an artist lecture with Taekyeom Lee an educator, researcher, and multidisciplinary designer using the artist’s material and artistic sensibility. He is currently an Assistant professor of Graphic Design at Iowa State University in Ames, IA. He received an MFA degree in Graphic Design from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research explores unconventional methods of creating multi-dimensional type, graphics, and even designed objects with materials and techniques unique to typography and graphic design. As a design researcher, he is trying to develop, test, and find the place of the emerging technologies in artistic and creative practices. He infused 3D printing into his research and has been experimenting with various digital methods and conventional and unconventional materials.

Artist Lecture: Aaron Coleman

Please join the NMSU Department of Art for an artist lecture with Aaron Coleman is an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Arizona. He received his MFA from Northern Illinois University in 2013 and BFA from Herron School of Art and Design in 2009

Aaron’s studio practice comprises an amalgam of creative processes and historical research. Through printmaking, painting, collage, sculpture, and installation he creates works that address how mundane and seemingly anodyne artifacts embody the complex and pervasive history of race/racism and class/classicism in the United States. Employing a multi-media approach, Aaron reworks and re-contextualizes images and objects to foreground their interactions – both past and present – in this history. 

Artist Lecture: Vick Quezada

Please join the NMSU Department of Art for an artist lecture with Vick Quezada. Quezada (they/them) explores hybrid forms in Indigenous-Latinx history and the function of these histories in contested lands, primarily in the U.S.-Mexico Border. They incorporate found objects and flora to reference the Aztec Indigenous beliefs which affirm the third-gender, and claim all beings are interconnected . Quezada’s work has been exhibited across the Northeast and featured in BOMB Magazine, Trans Studies Quarterly, and Remezcla. Quezada is currently a fellow at the Leslie Lohman Museum, and they just completed an artist-in-residence at the Latinx Project NYU and they will be featured amongst a  “large-scale survey” of emerging artists in El Museo del Barrio’s upcoming La Trienal. Vick Quezada holds a BA from the University of Texas at El Paso and an MFA from the UMASS Amherst.

Artist Lecture: Christine Rebhuhn

Please join the NMSU Department of Art for an artist lecture with Christine Rebhuhn a New York City based sculptor born in Mount Vernon Iowa. She received an MFA in Ceramics from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2015, and a BA in Psychology and Studio Art from Kalamazoo College in 2011. Her work is guided by inexplicable alignments, a constant hunch that familiar objects will find a beautiful, uncanny order when mapped on human experience. Solo exhibitions include Emotional Shorthand at NARS Foundation in Brooklyn, NY (2018), Rim’s Edge at Soo Visual Arts Center in Minneapolis, MN (2017), and Cold Sweat at Makeshift in Kalamazoo, MI (2016). Her work has been included in group shows at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, New York (2020), the Boiler in Brooklyn, NY (2019) and at Stove Works in Chattanooga, TN (2019). She also exhibited at the 2015 Gyeonggi International Ceramics Biennale in Incheon, Korea, where her work is in the permanent collection at the Korean Ceramic Foundation. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Vermont Studio Center (VT), Elsewhere (NC), NARS Foundation (NY), and Makeshift (MI). Her work was published in ArtMaze Magazine and Maake Magazine, and was featured on Artspace. She has been hosted as a guest critic by the Sarah Lawrence College Art Department and the New York City Crit Club..

Artist Lecture: Justin Favela

Please join the NMSU Department of Art for an artist lecture with Justin Favela.

Justin Favela is known for large-scale installations and sculptures that manifest
his interactions with American pop culture and the Latinx experience, Justin
Favela has exhibited his work both internationally and across the United States.
His installations have been commissioned by the Denver Art Museum in Colorado
and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas. His latest major project, Recuérdame, will be on view in New York City at the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling until September 8th, 2019. Fav e Podcast. Justin Favela graduated from the UNLV Department of Art with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2010.

Learn more about our previous VAS including Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Justin Groth, Leslie Moody Castro, Hrag Vartanian, Ryan McNamara, Patty Chang, CASSILS, and more. 

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