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Visiting Artists and Scholars

Each year, the Florida State University Department of Art’s Visiting Artist Program brings leading studio artists from around the world to Tallahassee. Their interactive artist talks give all art students the opportunity to engage and build connections with these talented and innovative artists. Hand selected by a faculty committee, these artists represent a wide variety of disciplines and experiences and come ready to share their work and inspire our students to expand their practices in exciting new ways. 

2025/26

Zoë Charlton

Co-Presented by MoFA and Department of Art, FSU
 
Charlton creates figure drawings, collages, installations, and animations that depict her subject’s relationship to objects and landscapes, exploring the ironies of contemporary social and cultural stereotypes.
 
 

Artist Talk, October 16, 5:30pm, 
FAB Room 249

Dayna Thacker

Co-Presented by Department of Art & Art Education, FSU

Dayna Thacker’s practice reflects an ongoing inquiry into impermanence, systems of meaning, and the interconnectedness of all things. Prior to returning to a full-time studio practice in 2025, Thacker served as the Director of Programs at Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and will share ways that artist residencies nurture community and creativity across disciplines.

 
 

Talk on Artist Residencies, Thursday, Nov 6, 6pm,
FAB Room 249

Susie Ganch

Presented by Department of Art, FSU

The labor-intensive, site-specific installations of Susie Ganch incorporate throwaway materials such as recycled jewelry, plastic bags, and disposable coffee cup lids to offer a pointed commentary on the effects of human culture and consumption on the environment.

 
 

Artist Talk, Thursday, Feb 19, 6pm
Room TBD

Julia Bland

Presented by Department of Art, FSU

Julie Bland uses experimental processes to incorporate painting and weaving into sculptural tapestries. Her intricate geometric abstractions are tactile works that bring architectural, natural and spiritual elements together, binding disparate elements into a whole.

Poster Link

Artist Talk, Thursday, March 26, 6pm
Room TBD

2024/25

Saya Woolfalk

Woolfalk uses science fiction and fantasy to reimagine the world in multiple dimensions and is represented by Leslie Tonkonow Artworks & Projects, New York.
 
 
October 3rd, 6PM
Room 249, Fine Arts Building

Elizabet Elliott

Elizabet Elliott is the director and curator of Alabama Contemporary Art Center and has been actively curating at both the grassroots and institutional level for over 15 years. Elliott has an artistic practice as an interdisciplinary artist, with a focus on social/civic practice.
 
 
Thursday, November 7th @6PM
FAB 249

Sheida Soleimani

Sitting at the intersection of art and activism, Soleimani creates theatrical three-dimensional tableaus, hand-built in her studio. Each set is a vessel for critical perspective, unpacking global power dynamics and competing political narratives.
 
 
Thursday, February 13th @6PM
location tbd

Roger Beebe

Experimental filmmaker Beebe, whose films have shown around the globe from Sundance to the Museum of Modern Art and McMurdo Station in Antarctica to the CBS Jumbotron in Times Square, presents a program of multi-projector experimental shorts at FSU.

2023/24

Steve Kurtz

Steven Kurtz, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Art at the State University of New York, is a founding member of the internationally acclaimed art and theater group Critical Art Ensemble (CAE). Founded in 1987 by Steven Kurtz and Steve Barnes, CAE is an award-winning collective of artists of various specializations dedicated to exploring the intersections between art, technology, political activism, and critical theory.

Raheleh Filsoofi

Filsoofi, a collector of soil and sound, is an itinerant artist and feminist curator. Her work revolves around themes of movement, immigration, and social activism. Clay and sound serve as her primary expressive mediums, enabling her to create diverse narratives through multimedia installations and immersive sound performances. Her art disrupts the borders that exist between us and seeks a more inclusive world, illuminating and challenging policies and politics.

Yvonne Osei

Yvonne Osei is a Ghanaian artist living in the United States. Her transnational practice explores the topics of beauty and colorism, the politics of clothing, and how global trade and colonialism impact post-colonial West African & Western cultures.
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2022/23

FSU MoFA Environmental Arts Panel

October 20, 7 pm Virtual Round Table with: Naomi Fisher, Lorie Mertes, Cristina Molina, and Onajide Shabaka

On Thursday, October 20th, at 7:00 PM EST, we will host an online panel of experts working at the intersection of art creation, curation, and environmental action. Moderated by Meredith Lynn (Assistant Professor of Art and Curator, FSU) and Katie Hargrave (Associate Professor of Art, University of Tennessee Chattanooga), the conversation will engage Lorie Mertes, Naomi Fisher, Onajide Shabaka, and Cristina Molina in a dialogue about environmental art.

Antonine Williams

Antoine Williams’ mixed-media work investigates his cultural identity by exploring power, fear and the perception of signs within society. Heavily influenced by science fiction, and his rural, working-class upbringing in Red Springs, North Carolina, Antoine has created his own mythology about the complexities of contemporary Black life.

Doug Baulos

Doug Baulos is an Associate Professor of Drawing and Bookmaking at The University of Alabama at Birmingham. His current books are explorations (visual) and meditations (poetry) centering on his ideas of spirituality, love, death, shelter, and hope. 

2021/22

Edie Fake

Edie Fake is a multimedia artist whose work includes books, zines, comics, drawings, tattoos, videos, installations, and performances. He is best known for his graphic drawings and paintings, which address themes of gender, sexuality, and queer identity. The work blurs lines between architecture and body with structures adorned by elements that seem to be both decorative and protective. Architectural components are used as visual metaphors for the ways in which definition and validation elude trans identities.

Dawit Petros

Dawit L. Petros is a visual artist, researcher and educator. His work is informed by studies of global modernisms, theories of diaspora, and postcolonial studies. These concerns derive from lived experiences: Petros is the child of Eritrean emigrants, and spent formative years in Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Kenya before settling in central Canada. Petros installs photographs, moving images, sculptural objects, and sound work according to performative, painterly, or site responsive logics.

Suchitra Mattai

Suchitra Mattai is a multi-disciplinary artist who lives and works in Denver, Colorado. Suchitra was born in Guyana, South America, but has also lived in Halifax and Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Philadelphia, New York City, Minneapolis, and Udaipur, India. These diverse natural and cultural environments have greatly influenced her work and research. While her practice includes a wide range of materials and ideas, her primary interests include 1) the complex relationship between the natural and artificial worlds and 2) the questioning of historical and authoritative narratives, especially those surrounding colonialism. Through painting, fiber, drawing, collage, installation, video, and sculpture, she weaves narratives of “the other,” invoking fractured landscapes and reclaiming cultural artifacts (often colonial and domestic in nature).