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Upcoming Speakers

About our Speaker Series

The Department of Art & Design hosts several visiting and local speakers annually. The Visual Art & Design Forum (VADF) is a speaker series for scholars, creative researchers, artists, and designers to discuss their projects with the ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ community. Presentation formats vary widely, from the traditional lecture to dynamic panel discussions.

Previous Speakers

2025 Winter

• 16 January 2025, 5:15 p.m. | FAB 2-20: Kelly Ruth – Reality Is Not As It Seems (view poster)
•  22 January 2025, 3:30 p.m. | Online: Shi Wenhua, Independent Filmmaker – The Act of Seeing (Something I Learned) (view poster)
• 10 March 2025, 7 p.m. | Timms Centre for the Arts: Elisa Harkins, Visiting Artist – Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ (view poster)
  11 March 2025, 5:15 p.m. | FAB 2-20: Elisa Harkins, Visiting Artist – Artist Talk (view poster)
• 13 March 2025, 10 a.m. | FAB 2-20: Christopher Swift, Visiting Artist in Printmaking (Assistant Professor in the Department of Art & Design at Binghamton University (SUNY)) – Rethinking Design as a Collaborative Practice (view poster) 

2024 Fall

• 12 September 2024, 5:15 p.m. | FAB 2-20: Rachel Duckhouse, Visiting Artist: Printmaking – Same River Twice (view poster)
•  10 October 2024, 5:15 p.m. | FAB 2-20: Beth Frey, Visiting Artist: FAB Gallery / Sculpture & Expanded Media – Artist Talk (view poster)
• 17 October 2024, 5:15 p.m. | FAB 2-20: Zoë Heyn-Jones, Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow (2023-25), ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥, Department of Art & Design and Drama – Decomposition + Regeneration: Composting Art, Design & Performance in the Americas (view poster) 
• 21 November 2024, 5:15 p.m. | FAB 2-20: Dr. Erandy Vergara-Vargas, Assistant Professor of Art History, MacEwan University – Making Noise in the Public Space, Here and Over There (view poster)

2024 Winter

• 18 January 2024, 5:15pm  FAB 2-20: Emmanuel Osahor – Notes on the Garden (view poster)
• 01 February 2024, 2:00pm  Zoom Online (RSVP to gallery@ualberta.ca to receive event link): Niedzielski + Molina - From Here to There (view poster) 
• 07 March 2024, 5:15pm  FAB 2-20: Robin Alex McDonald (Assistant Professor, Department of Studio Arts, MacEwan University) – Pink Triangles, Blue Feelings: Representations of Depression in 2SLGBTQ+ Contemporary Art (view poster) 
• 14 March 2024, 5:15pm  FAB 2-20: Alicia Proudfoot (Artist in Residence, Sculpture)  –Somatic Archive through Sound and Form (view poster) 

2023 Fall

• 14 September 2023, 5:15pm  FAB 2-20: Agata Stronciwilk (Wirth Institute Scholar) –  (view poster)
• 28 September 2023, 11:00am Zoom Online: Kate Sellen (Health Design Studio, OCAD), Michelle Chan (Design Lead, Government of BC) and Christine Watridge (Health Communication Design Studio, St. Louis, Missouri) –  (view poster)
• 12 October 2023, 11:00am Zoom Online: Katie Dainty (North York General Hospital), Damyen Henderson (University of Toronto), Maria Cheung (Taboo Health, Founder and Creative Director), Joe Langley (Lab4Living, UK) –  (view poster)
• 19 October 2023, 5:15pm FAB 2-20: Raneece Buddan (Artist in Residence, sculpture) – Material Exploration: A Way Home (view poster)
• CANCELLED: 23 November 2023, 5:15pm FAB 2-20: Mary Kavanaugh (University of Lethbridge) – Trinity, Then and Now (view poster)

2023 Winter

• 17 January 2023, 5:15pm  FAB 2-20: Jill Miller – FUTURE PERFECT (view poster)
• 26 January 2023, 5:15pm  FAB 2-20: Riaz Mehmood – Poetic Resistance: Reflections on Ghazal: Songs for Home (view poster)
• 14 February 2023, 2:15pm  FAB 2-20: Richard Boulet and Yvonne Mullock – Panel Talk chaired by Professor Sean Caufield (view poster 1; view poster 2)

2022 Fall

• 22 September 2022, 2pm online:
• 26 September 2022, 5pm online:
• 05 October 2022, 4pm online:
• 16 November 2022, 2pm online:  (Live Q&A/Artist talk pre-recorded)
• 29 November 2022, 10am online:

2022 Winter

• 24 March 2022, Howie Tsui: "Artist Talk"
• 10 March 2022, Panel discussion with Aijie Shi, Anran Tu, Yi Liu, and Yiyin Xue: "The Double Life of Objects: Nature, Nation, Narratives and Their Material Incarnations in Twentieth-Century China"
• 09 March 2022, Cinthia Sifa Mulanga: "Artist Talk"
• 17 February 2022, Juliana Cerqueira Leite: "Public Lecture"
• 03 February 2022, Heather Leier: "Public Lecture"

2021 Fall

• 12 October 2021, Takeshi Takeno: ""
• 23 September 2021, Lori Blondeau: ""

2021 Winter

• 25 March 2021, Lisa Silverman: "Rethinking Jewish Space in Vienna before 1938"
• 04 March 2021, Jackson 2bears: "Studio and Research Practices"
• 11 February 2021, Ellen Lupton and Bon Ku: ""
• 28 January 2021, Christina Battle: ""

2020 Fall

• 19 November 2020, Owen Mundy and Joelle Dietrick: ""
• 22 October 2020, Camille Turner: ""
• 01 October 2020, Lindsey V. Sharman: ""
• 22 September 2020, Paul Coldwell: ""

2020 Winter

• 12 March 2020, Andrea Pinheiro: ""
• 06 February 2020, Catherine Crowston: ""
• 23 January 2020, Shafraaz Kaba: ""

2019 Fall

• 21 November 2019, Marta Filipová: “Global, Post-imperial, or National? Austrian, Hungarian and Czechoslovak Pavilions at Interwar World’s Fairs”
• 07 November 2019, Mitch Mitchell: ""
• 17 October 2019, Yvonne Mullock: ""
• 10 October 2019, Leigh Bridges: ""
• 03 October 2019, Ouri Scott: "Indigenizing Design: Practice, Process, Product"
• 26 September 2019, Jose Martinez: “”
• 12 September 2019, Tom Rice: ""

2019 Winter

• 13 June 2019, Denise Costanzo: ""
• 04 April 2019, Sadiq Javer: ""
• 02 April 2019, David Gibson: ""
• 19 March 2019, Kelli Anderson: "The Hidden Talents of Everyday Things"
• 17 January 2019, Ruthann Godollei: ""

2018 Fall

• 22 November 2018, Matthew Witkovsky: "Štyrský, Toyen, Heisler: Between the Private and the Popular"
• 08 November 2018, Allen Ball: ""
• 25 October 2018, Brad Necyk: "Telling Stories Otherwise"
• 11 October 2018, Jane Fine: ""
• 27 September 2018, Jesper Alvær, ""
• 25 September 2018, Jonathan Shaughnessy, "The Contemporary as Global: Collecting and Exhibiting the “Art of Our Time” at the National Gallery of Canada"
• 20 September 2018, Miguel A. Aragon: ""

2018 Winter

• 12 April 2018, Sandra Bromley: ""
• 05 April 2018, Sean Caulfield: ""
• 29 March 2018, Hong Kal: "Visual Images that Witness the Sewol Ferry Disaster in South Korea"
• 15 March 2018, Monica Tap: "To see how the land lies"
• 14 March 2018, Namiko Kunimoto: "Anxious Bodies in Postwar Japanese Art"
• 08 February 2018, Kim Dorland: ""
• 01 February 2018, Blair Brennan: ""
• 18 January 2018, David Candler: ""

2017 Fall

• 07 December 2017, Susanna Barlow: ""
• 30 November 2017, Liz Ingram: ""
• 09 November 2017, Tanya Harnett: ""
• 02 November 2017, Marilene Oliver: ""
• 26 October 2017, Etienne Zak: ""
• 19 October 2017, Kristoffer Neville: "s"
• 18 October 2017, Chrispin Elsted: ""
• 21 September 2017, Naomi Potter: ""

2017 Winter

• 16 March 2017, Jason Urban: ""
• 09 March 2017, Jude Griebel: ""
• 16 February 2017, Cindy Baker: ""
• 26 January 2017, Scott Rogers: ""

2016 Fall

• 03 November 2016, Eric Waterkotte: ""
• 30 October 2016, Laura Prins: ""
• 27 October 2016, Annea Lockwood: ""
• 20 October 2016, ""
• 06 October 2016, Josip Zanki: ""