The McKinney Visiting Artist Series features worldwide artists that work with students at the school on techniques and improving their work.
Miyako Ishiuchi: At the Birth of My Photography
5 p.m. Thursday
President’s Hall in Franklin Hall
Miyako Ishiuchi, born in 1947, is a renowned Japanese photographer. She has received multiple photography awards from around the world, including the Photographic Society of Japan Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006. Ishicuchi has also displayed her photographs in museums in New York, London and Sweden.
Arline Fisch
5 p.m. Oct. 24
Lee Norvelle Theatre and Drama Center A201
Arline Fisch is a jewelry maker from San Diego, Calif., who has worked with the craft for more than 50 years. Her jewelry blends metal, sculpture and clothing and is often inspired by ancient cultures and nature. She received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Crafts from the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Fisch has also received multiple Fulbright fellowships to travel and work in Vienna, Uruguay and Denmark.
Denise Markonish
5 p.m. Nov. 7
Lee Norvelle Theatre and Drama Center A201
Denise Markonisch is the curator at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. She has been involved with numerous exhibits at the museum that have received national recognition. Markonisch has taught at the University of New Haven, Stonehill College and the Rhode Island School of Design, according to the School of Fine Arts.
Ingrid Ledent
5 p.m. Jan. 30
Location TBA
Ingrid Ledent is a lithographer originally from Belgium, where she was born in 1955. She studied graphic art at the Royal Academy of Arts in Antwerp and has taught lithography there since 1984. Ledent has led workshops in lithography in Europe, the United States and Asia, showing different lithographic techniques.
David Shields
5 p.m. Feb. 13
Location TBA
David Shields is a graphic designer who instructs at the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va. He is chair of the Graphic Design Department at the university. Previously, Shields lived in Brooklyn, N.Y., and worked as an artist and instructor at different universities. Shields also cofounded a design studio called Viewers Like You in 2000. The studio works to brand new and established companies.
Anne Wilson
5 p.m. March 6
Location TBA
Anne Wilson is a visual artist from Chicago who works in a variety of mediums including sculpture, drawing and animation, combining them into single artworks.
In 2014, Wilson displayed her work in New York City, and in 2013 she was included in an exhibition at the Zhejiang Art Museum in China. She currently works as an artist and a professor of art at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Toni Dove
5 p.m. March 27
Location TBA
Toni Dove is a New York native who works with a hybrid of experimental theater, film and installation art, according to the School of Fine Arts.
Her work has been shown in the U.S., Canada and Europe. Beginning this year, she will be the artist/director in residence at the New School for Social Research in Media Studies.
Kevin Snipes
5 p.m. April 24
Location TBA
Kevin Snipes works with unconventional pottery and has a need to draw on everything he creates, according to the School of Fine Arts.
Snipes has exhibited his work nationally and internationally, including China and all around the country. Snipes was born in Philadelphia, but grew up in Cleveland, Ohio.
He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Cleveland Institute of Art.
Alison Graham
