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Art & Design events are free and open to the public. Click on individual event listings for the Mason Gross Galleries schedule.

CANCELED – Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Jordan Wolfson

Virtual Events

Jordan Wolfson is known for his thought-provoking works in a wide range of media, including video, sculpture, installation, photography, and performance. Pulling intuitively from the world of advertising, the internet, and the technology industry, he produces ambitious and enigmatic narratives that frequently revolve around a series of invented, animated characters. Through his art, Wolfson probes difficult, often controversial topics and themes that underlie American culture and contemporary society.

Design Lecture: Silas Munro

Virtual Events

Munro will explore how his mutable practice as a designer, educator, writer, researcher, historian, poet, surfer, and activist has attempted to create a form of integrity in the face of racism, homophobia, classism, stigma, and other forms of exclusion. This attempt at integration is reflected in his lived experience as a queer biracial man and the experiences of his clients and students.

Design Lecture: Chris Hamamoto

Virtual Events

Chris Hamamoto is a Bay Area-based designer. He is an Assistant Professor at California College of the Arts, and has also lectured or given workshops at Letterform Archive, OCAT Shenzhen, The Book Society in South Korea, SUNY Purchase, Meiyi Art Academy in China, and RISD, among others. His work has been exhibited in the Gwanju Design Biennale, Brno International Graphic Design Biennial, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and Typojanchi, as well as published in C Magazine, IDEA Magazine, and the Walker Art Center's Gradient.

Design Lecture Series: Aarati Akkapeddi

Virtual Events

This lecture is presented as part of the Spring 2021 Design Lecture Series, free and open to all. Registration is required. Aarati Akkapeddi is a first-generation Indian-American, cross-disciplinary artist, educator, and programmer interested in the poetics and politics of […]

Visiting Artist Lecture Series: CAConrad

Virtual Events

CAConrad has been working with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975. They are the author of Amanda Paradise, forthcoming from Wave Books in 2021. Their book While Standing in Line for Death won a Lambda Literary Award.

Design Lecture Series: Lauren Lee McCarthy

Virtual Events

Image Courtesy of the Artist This lecture is presented as part of the spring 2021 Design Lecture Series, free and open to all. Registration is required. Lauren Lee McCarthy (she/they) is an artist examining social relationships […]

Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Caitlin Cherry

Virtual Events

Caitlin Cherry (b. 1987) draws on painting, sculpture and installation in her multifaceted practice, coalescing into articulate and alluring representations of Black femininity. Filtering these media through layers of digital manipulation, her work draws parallels between Black femme bodies, frequently commodified and positioned as sexual assets, and the seductiveness of art objects in the commercial gallery circuit.

Design Lecture Series: Alice Wong

Virtual Events

Image Courtesy of the Artist "Disability Visibility" This lecture is presented as part of the spring 2021 Design Lecture Series, free and open to all. Registration is required. Alice Wong (she/her) is a disabled activist, […]

Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Jon Kessler

Virtual Events

With his chaotic kinetic installations, Jon Kessler critiques our image-obsessed, surveillance-dominated world. His machines are at once complex and lumbering, combining mechanical know-how with kitschy materials and images. Structurally complex and narratively engaging, Jon Kessler’s multimedia sculptures often deliver an emotional punch beyond their humble means.