Visual Voices, a professional lecture series sponsored by the School of Art, invites nationally recognized visiting artists and designers to speak about their work and the world of art and design.
Visual Voices Colloquium is the Professional Lecture Series of the School of Art and represents a window into the professional world of art and design. Speakers are chosen with faculty guidance to represent leading and emerging talented practitioners, as well as artists whose work lies beyond the subject areas of the program offerings.
The purpose of the course and the program is to broaden students’ exposure and vocabulary to professional work being created today. It will also provide an opportunity for Mason School of Art students to interact with speakers via a virtual Q&A for Fall 2020 following their lecture, giving them the chance to exchange ideas and pose questions to the guest speakers.
For Fall 2020, all lectures will be presented virtually and are free and available to be viewed by the public.
For more information, please contact, Harold Linton.
D. Dominick Lombardi is an artist, writer and curator, represented by 
Steven Rost is the Department Chair of Art and Design and professor in the College of Architecture and Design, where he has been teaching for nearly 33 years. Steven is a graduate of Cranbrook Academy of Art (MFA 1982), University of Denver (BSBA 1975) and attended Minneapolis College of Art and Design (1978/80).
Augustina Woodgate creates art across multiple disciplines, her primary focus being the interplay between human beings and their surroundings. Striving to create work that fosters human relationships, Woodgate has produced public works such as park benches and color-changing billboards and bus shelters.
Adriana Ospina is the Curator of the Permanent Collection and Educational programs at the Art Museum of the Americas. Her first major curatorial project was a traveling exhibition based on AMA’s collection, Converging Cultures: Asian Diasporas and Latin American & Caribbean Art, 1945-Present. For this project AMA partnered with International Arts and Artists. She also organized a symposium on the occasion of the centennial of AMA’s founding director José Gómez-Sicre’s birth. This program sought to juxtapose Gómez-Sicre’s promotion of Cuban art in the 1940s with the efforts of scholars, modern and contemporary art museums and other institutions, both in Cuba and the United States, in support of contemporary Cuban art.