The primary charge of our decade-long Visiting Artists Program is to educate and foster exposure and discourse about contemporary art to ISU students and the community. The constant flow of interesting and talented people that visit throughout the school year adds greatly to the excitement and intellectual stimulus offered by our academic Faculty and Programs.
2. Program Coordination
The Program is coordinated by rotating members of the School of Art Faculty with the assistance of a Graduate Student who acts as liaison in various aspects of the Program.
For further information contact current Program Coordinator at: mdoresk@ilstu.edu
3. Long Term Residencies & Short Term Lecturers
Each semester the School of Art @ ISU hosts a number of distinguished national and international Visiting Artists for Long Term residencies lasting up to four weeks, and Short Term Residencies of up to two day duration. The Visiting Artists Program showcases artists working in all media including photo, painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, installation, video, new media, performance, and interdisciplinary practices; in addition to curators, critics, and art historians. They range in stature from emerging to established professionals in their field.
-Long Term Visiting Artists
Long Term Visiting Artists give a 1hr. public lecture on their work and teach a 2-hour weekly Seminar on the topic of their expertise. The Seminar, which can engage practice and/or theory, is open to Graduate and Undergraduate School of Art students. Additionally, Visiting Artists develop their own research projects in the studio provided in the Center for the Visual Arts Building . They maintain an open door” policy and are accessible to students who wish to engage dialogue. Students may also sign-up for a 30-minute feedback session on their work. Visiting Artists are often also invited by Faculty to give talks within the context of their classes, and engage in the College of Fine Arts’ community life.
-Short Term Visiting Artists
Short Term artists/scholars offer a one-hour public lecture and meet with interested students for a one to one feedback session about their work.
4. What we offer Long Term Visiting Artists
The School of Art provides long Term Visiting Artists with studio space located in the Center for Visual Arts building. It is a private, Internet enabled 12' x 40' space, intended for work on new or on-going projects. A privately owned, fully equipped, Internet enabled, furnished apartment in Bloomington’s historical district is available to incoming artists throughout their stay. In addition, they are remunerated with a $3,300 stipend. Travel and other expenses are the responsibility of the Visiting Artist.
5. What we offer Short Term Visiting Artists
The School of Art provides Short Term Visiting Artists with a stipend, air faire and Hotel accommodations.
6. Visiting Artist Selection Process
Long Term: The Visiting Artist Program Coordinator and a VA Committee composed of School of Art Faculty and a Graduate Student, select Visiting Artists from a pool of applicants. Short Term: The VA Committee, School of Art Faculty or Graduate students may recommend Short Term Visiting Artists for lecture presentations. The VA Committee, chaired by the Coordinator, reviews these recommendations and makes selections.
7. Application
If you are interested in applying for this position please contact:
Visiting Artist Selection Committee Chair
School of Art
Illinois State University
Campus Box 5620 Normal, IL 61790-5620
Illinois State University is an equal opportunity employer. The Visiting Artist Selection Committee considers ethnic and gender balance while trying to select artists of diverse backgrounds from a variety of geographic locations. Artists of all disciplines are encouraged to apply. Previous teaching experience may be a factor in the selection of visiting artists.
Past Artists
2006 - 2007
Jason Manley Bill Smith
Jef Scharf
Andreas Fischer
John Giglio
Guest Lecturer: Andrea Modica
Guest Lecturer: Temporary Services
Guest Lecturer: Shane Campbel
2005 - 2006
Dave McKenzie
Christine Hill
Kevin Kaempf
Nina Bovasso
Flavia Caviezel
Guest lecturer: Melissa Pokomy
2004 - 2005
Julia Marsh
Valerie Lamontagne
Carol Jackson
Guest lecturer: Janet Koplos
2003 - 2004
Danica Phelps
Elsie Ferguson
Chris Vorhees
Marty Ackley
Scott Anderson
Guest lecturer: David Levinthol
Guest lecturer: Lawrence Wescher
2002 - 2003
Emily Blair
John Ford
Scott Zimmer
Juliane Swartz
Mindy Schwartz
Guest lecturer: Mary Jane Jacob
2001 - 2002
Kim Jones
Kim Merrigton
Heidi Schlatter
Anna Hepler
Carol Jackson
Guest lecturer: Patrick Nagatani
2000 - 2001
Kathleen McCarthy
Matt King
Michelle Marcuse
Deborah Boardman
Hamza Walker
M. W. Burns
Vanalyne Green
Ed Pacschke
1999 - 2000
Alix Pearlstein
Margaret Curtis
Koichi Yamamoto
Brett Bloom
Benjamin Edols and Kathy Elliot
1998 - 1999
Jonathan Seliger
Kees Visser
Ken Warneke
Bill Close
Moira McIver
1997 - 1998
Peter Waite
Karen Baldner
Bogdan Achimescu
Artur Tajber
Michelle Oosterban
Gregory Coates
1996 - 1997
Richard Rezac
John Ford
Charles Spurrier
Billy Curmano
Will Mentor
Heidi Kumano
Highlights from the past
Dennis Adrian
Francis Hynes
Amy Sillman
Michael Smith
Roger Winter
Buzz Spector
Rodney Ripps
Amy Agee
Archie Rand
Gilbert Lujan
Events for Tuesday, October 7 2008
Start Time:
Event:
7:00 PM
"Transfigurations" lecture Coinciding with the groundbreaking photographic series on the transgender community, "Transfigurations," photographer Jana Marcus and Lyle Blake, whose portrait appears in the series, will lecture preceding the exhibition's opening reception. The exhibition is presented in Galleries 2 and 3.
8:00 PM
Opening reception for "Transfigurations" "Transfigurations" is a jarring series of portraits by California photographer Jana Marcus. Displayed beside texts from interviews with her transgender subjects, these stark photographs capture the transformed faces and bodies of “truly self-made men and women.” This exhibition is presented in Galleries 2 and 3. This reception is preceded by a 7pm lecture by Jana Marcus and Lyle Blake, whose portrait appears in the exhibition.
Events for Sunday, October 12 2008
Start Time:
Event:
7:00 PM
Opening Reception: The Election Show The Election Show provides an opportunity for artists near and far to voice their views on issues concerning the upcoming election. 2-D and 3-D works will be accepted, with size not to exceed 2 x 2 x 2 feet. Short videos will also be accepted, and will be compiled for collective display.
Deborah Aschheim makes installations based on invisible networks of perception and thought, using light, plastic, video and sound to translate the private, shifting space of memory into a physical space. Her recent work is based on a series of personal experiments that are equal parts science and poetry, and includes collaborations with musician/composer Lisa Mezzacappa, and with Dr. Greg Siegle, director of the Program in Cognitive Affective Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine. Recent exhibitions include "Deborah Aschheim: Reconsider " at Laumeier Sculpture Park, Saint Louis, MO (2008); "The Lining of Forgetting" at the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, NC (2008), and "On Memory" at the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA (2006-7). "Neural Architecture, " her series of six evolving "nervous systems for buildings," (2003-6) included installations at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, and at Laguna Art Museum in Laguna Beach.
Schachte states that, as a contemporary artist who paints, she is a tourist. The tourist-painter hopes to visit the past, collecting souvenirs to make something new. Schachte interprets and reinvents notions of landscape painting as a way of visiting historical sites in both painting and social histories. In a recent body of work, “The Future is Here,” she takes the premise of an imagined “Great American Road Trip” into the future to improvise on the iconography of the American landscape. This allowed her to imagine a story of painting’s future and include herself in it. Schachte is currently working on a new group of paintings on the theme of “Time Travel & Leisure.” Picturing global vacation destinations of the near future and recent past, she is discovering new and hybridized forms in her painting.
