Syracuse University, School of Art, Visiting Artist Lecture Series

Syracuse University, School of Art, Visiting Artist Lecture Series This Visiting Artist Lecture Series is a Syracuse University School of Art course that is also OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

This week we will have the semester’s first speaker for the Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Amber Rane Sibley, our new f...
08/26/2026

This week we will have the semester’s first speaker for the Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Amber Rane Sibley, our new faculty member in ceramics. She will speak at 6:30 on Thursday, August 27 in Shemin.

Amber Rane Sibley is a NYC-based ceramic sculptor and Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor of Ceramics at SU. Her figurative sculptures investigate behavioral psychology, empathy, and the motivations behind harmful behaviors. Working primarily through hand-built ceramic forms, Sibley creates custom glazes that combine candied colors with grotesque surfaces, using attraction and discomfort to discuss difficult psychological narratives.

Her work has been exhibited nationally and featured in The New York Times, Hyperallergic, Artforum, and Ceramics Now. She is represented by Fierman Gallery in New York and holds an M.F.A. from Tulane University and a B.F.A. from Hunter College.

https://amberranesibley.com/about/

This week’s VALS speaker, the last of the semester, is Monique Aimee. She will speak in Shemin at 6:30 on Thursday, Apri...
04/21/2026

This week’s VALS speaker, the last of the semester, is Monique Aimee. She will speak in Shemin at 6:30 on Thursday, April 23.

Monique Aimee is a Boston illustrator and multidisciplinary artist. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Lesley University in 2014 and has been freelancing since her graduation.

She has illustrated over 40 book covers and worked with clients big and small, local and worldwide. Her style is bold, harmonious, and celebrates living in New England. With a love of the fiber arts, Monique draws inspiration from textiles to weave a story together through her illustrations.

She’ll also be hosting a workshop called Hand Lettering For Book Covers in Shaffer 332 at 12:30 pm on Thursday.

https://moniqueaimee.com/

This week’s VALS speaker is Francisco echo Eraso. He will speak in Shemin at 6:30 on Thursday, April 16.Jointly presente...
04/14/2026

This week’s VALS speaker is Francisco echo Eraso. He will speak in Shemin at 6:30 on Thursday, April 16.

Jointly presented in conjunction with the Center on Disability and Inclusion and Syracuse University Art Museum, artist Francisco echo Eraso offers an experimental lecture on the intersections of disabled identity and ecological crisis. Given the increasingly toxic and disabling environments across the globe, disability is simultaneously deemed “unnatural” and therefore disposable and to be eradicated.

Francisco echo Eraso (he/él) is a Colombian-American interdisciplinary artist, educator and access worker. He uses textiles and ceramics as well as minimalist sculpture and sound art to engage topics of liberation theology, family, and revolution.

Through an “Eco-Crip” framework, Eraso challenges the idea of disability as a pathological deficit. Looking to Disability Justice principles to challenge binaries of natural/unnatural and normal/abnormal, disability is presented as part of human diversity and as a cultural and political identity. Eraso discusses his own art practices alongside the work of contemporary disabled artists to illuminate disability as a crucial source of wisdom and leadership for the future ahead of us.

Eraso received his MFA in Fine Arts from Rutgers University in 2025 and a BA/BFA from Parsons, The New School in Visual Studies and Fine Arts in 2018. He has been a keynote speaker at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2025), received the Wynn Newhouse Award (2024), received the LEAD award from the Kennedy center (2023) and served as the call to action speaker for the Art-Reach Conference on Arts, Culture and Disability (2023). He has been an artist-in-residence at Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts SHIFT residency for arts workers (2022-2023), FABSCRAP (2022-2023), Textile Arts Center (2020-2021), 77Art (2021) and Art Beyond Sight’s Art and Disability Residency (2021). He has exhibited at Mason Gross Galleries (NJ), The Re-Institute, Tempest Gallery, The Shed, EFA Project Space, Westbeth Gallery, Chashama Space Gallery, Ford Foundation Gallery, Amos Eno Gallery, Flux Factory and Sheila C. Johnson Gallery (NY), Mead Museum and A.P.E. Gallery (MA), The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (OH), Museo Antonini in Peru, among others. He has been published by NYU Press (2025) Art in America (2022), and Ugly Duckling Press (2020).

Eraso currently works as an accessibility consultant, independent curator, youth minister, and part-time lecturer at Rutgers University, Parsons, The New School and Middlesex Community College.

This event is part of the Syracuse University Humanities Center’s 2025-2026 Syracuse Symposium on “Creativity.”

A reception, which is open to all, will be held in the Galleria (outside the Museum and Shemin) from 5:00-6:30 on the 16th.

Eraso will also hold a workshop in the Galleria on April 17 from noon-2:00.

https://franciscoechoerasojr.com/home.html

https://humcenter.syr.edu/calendar/eco-crip-workshop/

This week’s VALS speaker is Sara Felice. She will speak at Shemin at 6:30 on Thursday, April 9.Sara Felice is the Curato...
04/07/2026

This week’s VALS speaker is Sara Felice. She will speak at Shemin at 6:30 on Thursday, April 9.

Sara Felice is the Curator of the Leepa Rattner Museum of Art in Tarpon Springs, Florida, where she cultivates over fifteen rotating exhibitions per year, implements collegiate and community programming, and develops LRMA’s permanent collection of over 7,000 works of modern and contemporary photography, prints, fine art crafts, paintings and sculpture. In the Tampa Bay Region, she has served as a guest judge and consultant of several art festivals and organizations, most notably Gasparilla Festival of the Arts, one of the largest juried fine art festivals in the Southern United States.

She received her MA in Museum Studies from Syracuse University and was the Director of Point of Contact Gallery in Syracuse from 2017-2021.

Outside of her practice as a curator and arts administrator, Sara has been a working professional photographer since 2006.

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Shemin Auditorium At The Shaffer Art Building On The SU Main Campus
Syracuse, NY
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