The Vail Visiting Artist program invites working artists at all stages in their careers to speak and mentor junior and senior students through one-on-one sessions, talks, workshops, and demonstrations.
Chair of Visual Arts:
Keith Allyn Spencer
Visual Arts Assistant:
Rebekah Lennon
About Vail Visiting Artists
Denison Visual Arts’ Vail Visiting Artist series is an endowed fund that invites working artists with fresh perspectives to connect with Denison students each semester. Artists come to campus to meet students in classes and performances, offer one-on-one feedback and critique, and provide support and mentorship during students’ junior and senior years.
The program strives to bring together a diversity of cutting-edge artists, methods, and backgrounds to provide students with a vision of the different ways in which art can function, question, and articulate experience in the world.
We have been fortunate to have artists as varied as: Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Zanele Muholi, Sharif Bey, Ann Hamilton, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Glenn Ligon, Alison Bechdel, Delita Martin, Darin Klein, Troy Michie, David Antonio Cruz, fierce pussy, Gordon Hall, Karen Tam, Tania Bruguera, Morehshin Allahyari, and Tanya Aguiñiga.
Vail Visiting Artists
Archive
2025 - 2026
The Visual Arts Program and Vail Visiting Artist Series welcomes Jen P. Harris presenting an artist talk.
Visual Arts Department and Vail Visiting Artist Series welcomes Ariadna Abadal Lloret and Myles Calvert.
Denison Visual Arts presents Vail Visiting Artist James Maurelle.
2024 - 2025
The Visual Arts Program and Vail Visiting Artist Series welcomes Arron Foster presenting an artist talk.
The Visual Arts Program and Vail Visiting Artist Series welcomes Corinne Teed presenting an artist talk.
Vail Lecture Series presents: "Ensnaring the Moment: On the intersection of poetry and photography" with Leah Ollman.
The Visual Arts Program and Vail Visiting Artist Series welcomes Matthew Zefeldt presenting an artist talk.
2023 - 2024
The Studio Art Program and Vail Visiting Artist Series welcomes Justine Kurland.
2022 - 2023
The Studio Art Program and Vail Visiting Artist Series welcomes Erika Diamond presenting an artist talk.
The Studio Art Program and Vail Visiting Artist Series welcomes Wesley Brown presenting an artist talk.
The Studio Art Program and Vail Visiting Artist Series presents an artist talk with Esteban del Valle.
2021 - 2022
The Art History and Visual Culture Program and Vail Visiting Artist Series presented an artist talk with Gabriela Ruiz.
The Studio Art Program and Vail Visiting Artist Series presented an artist talk with Sabiha Basrai.
The Studio Art Program, Environmental Studies, and Vail Visiting Artist Series presented an artist talk with Lumin Wakoa.
The Studio Art Program, the Music Department, and Vail Visiting Artist Series presented artist Suzanne Kite.
The Studio Art Program and Vail Visiting Artist Series presented artist Christie Blizard, who gave a remote talk to students.
2020 - 2021
The Studio Art Program and the Vail Visiting Artist Lecture Series presented a remote talk to students with artist Chotsani Dean on April 8th, 2021.
The Studio Art Program and Vail Visiting Artist Series presented artist Julie Torres, who gave a virtual artist talk on 3/25/21.
Denison's Studio Art Program and the Vail Visiting Artist Lecture Series presented Canadian artist Karen Tam on March 11, 2021 for a virtual artist talk.
The Department of Studio Art welcomes Troy Michie presenting an artist talk.
The Department of Studio Art welcomes Delita Martin presenting an artist talk.
2019 - 2020
Denison University welcomes Vail Visiting Artist Tanya Aguiniga.
Denison University welcomes Vail Visiting Artist Elia Alba.
Denison University welcomes Vail Visiting Artist Beth Leister.
Denison University welcomes Vail Visiting Artist Sharif Bey.
Denison University welcomes Vail Visiting Artist Kimo Nelson.
Denison University welcomes Vail Visiting Artist David Allyn.
Denison University welcomes Vail Visiting Artist Yue Nakayama presenting an artist talk and opening reception.
Denison's Studio Art program welcomes Vail Visiting Artist Donte Moore.
Denison Art Space in Newark presents new Artists-in-Residents, Michael Stickrod and Erin Kirwin.
Denison University welcomes Vail visiting artist Andy Campbell.
2018 - 2019
Denison University presents an artist talk with Ryan Parker.
Denison University welcomes Vail Visiting Artist Roxanne Jackson.
Denison University presents an artist talk with multidisciplinary artist and a professor David Antonio Cruz.
The TUTTI festival presents an artist talk with Vail Visiting Artist Tara Booth.
Denison University welcomes Vail visiting artist Chelsea Flowers '13 presenting an artist talk
Denison University welcomes Vail visiting artist Jo-ey Tang presenting an Artist Talk.
Artist Talk with Vail visiting artist Jennifer Lee
2017 - 2018
Denison's Studio Art program welcomes Vail visiting artist Natalie Kuenzi presenting an artist talk.
Denison's Studio Art program welcomes Vail visiting artist Jeanine Oleson presenting an artist talk.
Denison's Studio Art program welcomes Vail visiting artist Yevgeniya Baras presenting an artist talk.
Vail visiting artist Alina Tenser gives an artist talk.
Vail visiting artist Paul Mpagi Sepuya gives an artist talk.
Vail visiting artist Brittany Faye Helms gives an artist talk.
Tim Buckwalter, Mellon Arts Across the Curriculum artist-in-residence, gives an artist talk.
2016 - 2017
Award-winning independent animator Tess Martin gives an artist talk.