Studio Art
Visiting Artists and Scholars
The Department of Art and Art History regularly invites exciting and prominent
artists, critics, and art historians to campus to give public lectures and
to interact with students. Both the Elizabeth
Kirkpatrick Doenges Visiting Artist/Scholar Program, which began at Mary
Baldwin in 1996, and the Susan Paul
Firestone Lecture in Contemporary Art, inaugurated in 2006, have greatly
enriched the atmosphere and curriculum in the studio art major. For information
on other upcoming speakers, visit the MBC
Lectures page.
Visiting Artists for the 2012–2013 academic year

Past Visiting Artists and Critics
- Laylah Ali, 2011-12 Susan Paul Firestone Lecturer in Comtemporary Art
- Oliver Herring, 2009-10 Susan Paul Firestone Lecturer in Contemporary Art
- Judy Pfaff, 2008-09 Susan Paul Firestone Lecturer in Contemporary Art
- Janine Antoni, 2007-08 Susan Paul Firestone Lecturer in Contemporary Art
- Alberto Rey, painter
- Ron Johnson, painter
- Leon Golub, painter
- Suzi Gablik, critic
- Robert Storr, curator and critic
- Joan Snyder, painter and Doenges Visiting Artist/Scholar 1998-99
- Melissa Miller, painter and Doenges Visiting Artist/Scholar 1999-2000
- Richard Fleischner, site-specific artist and Doenges Visiting Artist/Scholar
2002-03
- Thomas Nozkowski, painter and Doenges Visiting Artist/Scholar 2003-04
- Elizabeth King, sculptor
- Terrie Sultan, curator
- Richard Carlyon, multi-media artist
- Sharon Farmer, photographer
- Claudia Bernardi, mixed-media artist and Doenges Visiting Artist/Scholar
2006-07
- Margaret Evangeline, painter and Firestone Lecturer in Contemporary Art
2006-07