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YSU’s Department of Art in the College of Creative Arts and Communication recognizes that each student is unique with individual talents, goals
DEPARTMENT OF ART LECTURE SERIES
KATIE BUTLER – (McDonough Lecture Hall) Thursday, October 24th 3:30pm
Katie Butler is a painter based in Akron, Ohio. Her allegorical still-life paintings provide critical commentary on the financial disparities in American society. Recent exhibitions include the Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, MI; Tchotchke Gallery, New York, NY; Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA; Hashimoto Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA; Abattoir Gallery, Cleveland, OH. Butler received her BFA from the University of Akron in 2017 and her MFA from Kent State University in 2021.
MICHEAL WEIGMAN – (Bliss Hall, Room 4025) Thursday, October 24th 3:30pm
Weigman is an artist, printmaker, and educator living in Columbus, Ohio. He received his Master of Fine Arts from Northern Illinois University with a focus in printmaking. Much of Weigman’s work explores a personal mythos, combining elements of his suburban upbringing, obsession with history, and fascination with subcultures found in extreme metal music.
Beyond being a practicing artist, Weigman currently manages the print shop Upright Press, is a member at the Columbus Printed Art Center, and is a freelance illustrator.
ERIN MALLEA – (McDonough Lecture Hall) Monday, November 18th 5:30pm
Erin Mallea is a multidisciplinary artist exploring the past and present of particular microcosms as entry points into larger human and environmental conditions. Her work manifests in a range of media including installation, sculpture, video, photography and participatory projects. She is interested in scrutinizing systems of producing knowledge, place, and relationships to land and time.
Mallea’s process is grounded in place-based research and partnerships with individuals, community groups and institutions outside of traditional art spaces: biologists, historians, neighbors, community radio, environmental justice activists and more. She have exhibited at galleries, museums and DIY spaces nationally and internationally, sent vibrations from a giant fungus throughout the atmosphere, and currently publish a newsletter, Tree News, with artist Paper Buck. Mallea received a MFA from Carnegie Mellon University (2019) and am an Assistant Professor of Art at the Pennsylvania State University School of
Visual Art.
BEECHER ART + TECHNOLOGY LECTURE SERIES
BEHNAZ FARAHI – (virtual) – Monday, November 25, 6pm
Behnaz Farahi is a designer, creative technologist and critical maker. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor at the MIT Media Lab, where she leads the Critical Matter Research Group. Trained as an architect, she explores how to foster an empathetic relationship between the human body and the space around it through the implementation of emerging technologies. Her goal is to enhance the interaction between human beings and the built environment by following morphological, and behavioral principles inspired by natural systems. Her work addresses critical issues such as feminism, emotion, bodily perception and social interaction. She specializes in computational design, interactive technologies, additive manufacturing and digital fabrication technologies.
Farahi has won several awards including the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum Digital Design Award, Fast Company Innovation By Design Linda Tischler Award, World Technology Award (WTN) and is the recipient of the BASA and Madworkshop Grants and the Rock Hudson Fellowship. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. Her work has been exhibited internationally at Ars Electronica, Linz and Context Art Miami, SIGGRAPH, La Piscine Museum in France and A+D Architecture and Design Museum in LA and has been featured in several magazines and online websites including WIRED, BBC, CNN, The Guardian, Frame Magazine, and many more.
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BECAUSE WE FOCUS ON YOU
Education in the arts is paradoxical. Art making and the study of art require skills training as well as perceptual awareness. Participation in the process is the primary means of education. Students and faculty alike are immersed in the quest for knowledge and creative self-realization, whether it is in the form of computer graphics, printmaking or the study of art from the past.
The Higher Learning Commission accredits Youngstown State University in an accreditation that includes all undergraduate and graduate programs. In addition, the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD), an organization whose membership includes 250 schools out of approximately 2,000 art departments nationally, accredits the Department of Art.