The Visiting Artists Program brings artists from around the world to join the MassArt community for a few days, weeks, or months. Artists of diverse backgrounds interact with students through lectures, slide talks, gallery walk-throughs, symposia, and residencies. Some of these events are related to curricula, while others are designed to fill a gap or broaden the experience of being at MassArt.
Diverse programming is the rule, and the nature of a visit is anything but predictable.
In keeping with its goal of bringing to the campus the major issues and controversies that animate the practice of contemporary fine arts and design, the program also organizes lectures, panel discussions, and symposia on a variety of topics. Artists recently invited to lecture at the college include photographers Lois Conner, Joan Fontcuberta, and Jeanne Dunning. Sculptors and installation artists include distinguished alum Glen Seator, Lesley Dill, Stephen Hendee, Kim Cridler, Emil Lukas, and Gary Griffin. Environmental artists and community activists include Mel Chin and Lily Yeh. Printmaker Jeffry Mitchell worked with students in printmaking classes as part of the Master Print series.