Each year the School of Art invites a diverse group of nationally and internationally recognized artists, designers, and scholars to share their distinct practices and voices with its students and the community. Students and the public alike can engage with these invited practitioners through lectures, screenings, performances, readings, conversations, studio critiques, and workshops.
This program is one of many valuable resources promoted through the School of Art that contributes to the experiences art students need to begin building relationships within the professional art world and to develop a greater understanding and appreciation of contemporary art and culture.
All events are free, non-ticketed, and open to the public unless otherwise specified.
Upcoming Events
SPRING 2026
January 7-29, The Ned and Gloria Griner Gallery
John C. Gonzalez: Checkpoint: Interactive Artworks & Experimental Play
The exhibition will include several interactive and game-adjacent artworks in the galleries. These works will include images, performance, and site-specific works that will solicit viewer engagement and provide space for unexpected connections and exchanges.
Tuesday, February 10, 6pm, AJ225
Blueprints for Bahay-Bahayan
Cheeny Celebrado-Royer
Cheeny Celebrado-Royer (b. Naga City, Philippines) is a multidisciplinary artist working with found and discarded materials to create installations, sculptures, and drawings that explore precarity, memory, and displacement. Drawing from decaying architectures and chroma-key aesthetics, she maps fragments of space—wreckage, green or blue tape—into constellations of unstable time and place. Her work reimagines drawing as a form of mapping, assembling familiar-yet-elusive icons into landscapes shaped by liminality. Through building from residue, she explores what might resemble home—transient, cartographic, unresolved.
Cheeny is an Associate Professor in Experimental and Foundation Studies at the Rhode Island School of Design. She holds an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (Mount Royal School of Art) and is an alumna of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program (2025). Her work has been exhibited at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Walters Art Museum, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Columbia College, Louisiana Tech University School of Design, and the RISD Museum.
Faculty Sponsor: James Lambert, Assistant Teaching Professor (Drawing)
Thursday, April 9, 6pm, AJ 225
A Journey in Microcosm
Jiyong Lee
Jiyong Lee is a studio artist and educator based in Carbondale, Illinois. He has taught at Southern Illinois University since 2005, where he leads the glass program. Originally from Seoul, Korea, he received his MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology. Lee has taught and exhibited internationally, with work shown in venues including the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the Tallinn Applied Art Triennial, and the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize. His sculptures are included in The Corning Museum of Glass, the Barry Art Museum, and Samsung and Chanel corporate collections.
Faculty Sponsor: Jennifer Halvorson, Associate Professor of Art (Glass) & Associate Director of the School of Art
For more information, please contact Lara Kuykendall, Director of the School of Art, lkuykendall@bsu.edu