Visiting Artists

Vincent Tiley

Monday, June 16, 5:30pm - Osher Hall

Born in West Virginia, New York-based artist Vincent Tiley received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Tiley is an adjunct faculty member and curriculum advisor at the Kentucky College of Art and Design in Louisville. The artist has participated in many residencies, including the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Residency in 2024, Villa Lena Residency and Vermont Studio Center Residency in 2023, and the Fire Island Artist Residency in 2017. Tiley's work has been featured and reviewed in Paper Magazine, Art in America, the Chicago Tribune, Performa, and the New York Times. The artist has been widely exhibited internationally, including the Museum of Art and Design, the Leslie-Lohman Museum, AxeNeo7, CFHILL, and the International Museum of Surgical Science. In June 2024, Vincent Tiley and Jerry Torre (aka the Marble Fawn of Grey Gardens) created a duo exhibition at New Discretions/Situations NYC titled Flesh Becomes Stone. Tiley's zine publication with Raw Meat Collective, The Origins of Color, has been collected by the Whitney Library, the Leather Archives and Museum Chicago, Yale University Library, and the Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Pap Souleye Fall

Monday, June 23, 5:30pm - Osher Hall

Pap Souleye Fall is a Senegalese-American artist who explores the transmedia potential between mediums including sculpture, installation, performance, cosplay, digital media, and comics. Their work is produced within the context of the African Diaspora. Being of two worlds, Fall delights in the ability to construct their own reality between the polarities of cultures. As such, he became fascinated with the ways art could be embedded in everyday life. Using common, found, and repurposed materials their multidisciplinary practice explores themes of speculative fiction, challenges the pretext of masculinity, Africanisms, and Afro-futurism.

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Dr. Nadia Buyse

Monday, July 7, 5:30pm - Osher Hall

Nadia Buyse is an artist, theorist, cultural activist and musician. Nadia’s music jumps from genre to genre, being tied together by DIY aesthetic, trans medial performance and video art that spans over installation, performance, visual albums, experimental pop operas, etc. Although DUBAIS operates like a band, it’s a vehicle for conceptual work and cultural activism in which Nadia uses the tropes of pop music to examine Diasporic migration, neo-liberal dystopias, emotional incapacitations, consumer technologies, hybrid identities, intersectional feminism, and transnational communities. DUBAIS has released music, published text, taught a multitude of workshops, lectured, exhibited work, and performed internationally in a variety of spaces and places ranging from Conflict resolution Peace camps in Central Asia to dOCUMENTA (13) to punk houses across the globe. Nadia is also the singer/ guitarist for “UK Super group” SNOOZERS. She is currently a program manager at the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance.

Brian Smith MFA ’20

Wednesday, July 9, 5:30pm - Osher Hall

Brian Smith is a Portland, Maine–based artist working across sculpture, painting, and drawing. Rooted in queer ecological theory, his practice reimagines human relationships to the natural world by proposing optimistic, speculative futures in which humanity adapts and migrates (back) to the oceans in response to climate catastrophe. Smith’s work blends myth and material, often incorporating camp, exuberance, and layered textures—such as beads, chains, and mosaics—to explore hybrid identities and celebrate queerness as a mode of transformation and survival.

Smith holds an MFA from Maine College of Art & Design and a BFA in Sculpture from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. His work has exhibited throughout New England, as well as in Antwerp and Austin, and is held in the permanent collection of the Portland Museum of Art, where he is currently featured in a group exhibition. His work has been written about in publications including Boston Art Review and the Portland Press Herald.

He is a recent Fellow at the Lunder Institute for American Art and has completed residencies at Monson Arts and Hewnoaks. He is a recipient of the Innovative Artist Grant, American Rescue Plan Maine Project Grant via SPACE Gallery, and Maine Arts Commission Project Grant.

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Anne Harris

Monday, July 14, 5:30pm - Osher Hall

Anne Harris has exhibited her paintings and drawings at venues ranging from Ivory Gate Gallery (Shanghai), Serious Topics (LA), Alexandre Gallery (NYC), and Goldfinch (Chicago), to the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institute, The Portland Museum of Art, the California Center for Contemporary Art and the North Dakota Museum of Art. Her work is in such public collections as The Fogg Museum, The Yale University Art Gallery, The New York Public Library and The DeCordova Museum. Grants and awards received include a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, an NEA Individual Artists Fellowship, and an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Lyme Academy College of Art.

Harris is a professor in the Painting and Drawing Department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She serves as Chair of the Exhibition Committee of the Riverside Arts Center. She is also the originator of The Mind’s I, an expanding drawing project done with other artists which has traveled and exhibited nationally and internationally, including Julius Caesar in Chicago, Dalton Warehouse in Los Angeles and Espacio Andrea Brunson in Santiago, Chile.

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Paul D’Amato

Wednesday, July 16, 5:30pm - Osher Hall

Paul D'Amato was born in Boston, where he attended Boston Latin School at the height of racial unrest and civil rights. He moved west to attend Reed College and claims to have learned as much from traveling cross-country - often by hitch-hiking and freight trains - as he did in class. After receiving an MFA from Yale, he moved to Chicago, where he discovered the community of Pilsen. The pictures and writing D'Amato produced there were made into the book “Barrio," published by the University of Chicago Press. His book of images made in the African-American community on the west side of Chicago, entitled "Here/Still/Now," published by Kehrer Verlag, was awarded the Lucie Foundation Book Prize in 2018. “Rave,” published by Skylark Editions in 2019, is about work made in the underground Techno scene in the early 90s. He is now finishing work for two books: “Midway” and “The Train Riders”.

Faythe Levine

Monday, July 21, 5:30pm - Osher Hall

Faythe Levine has been in service to the arts for over twenty years, advocating for creative output to build connections between community, personal independence, and empowerment. She is currently the Hauser & Wirth Institute Archivist for Women's Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY, where she manages, oversees, and increases public visibility of the archives and special collections. Her position focuses on WSW’s work as an important hub for radical thought for the past 50 years, modeling economic viability for print and book culture.

Levine has worked extensively in both traditional and DIY spaces. From 2017 to 2021, she worked at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center as director of the Arts/Industry program, where she was responsible for the development and administration of the residency hosted at Kohler Co. and curating related exhibitions and projects at the Arts Center and Art Preserve in Sheboygan, WI. She has worked as a freelance artist and curator with institutions for the past ten years, including Ruffles, Repair & Ritual at the Wedding Cake House, 2019; For Hire: Contemporary Sign Painting in America, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, 2017; Counter Craft: Voices of the Indie Craft Community, Fuller Craft Museum, 2016; and Craftivism, UW-Green Bay Lawton Gallery, 2008. Levine also curated two non-traditional gallery spaces, Sky High Gallery (2010-2014) and Paper Boat (2005-2009), which focused on collaborations with emerging artists from around the United States. Levine also founded and directed Milwaukee’s premier maker fair, Art vs. Craft (2004-2014).

Anne Buckwalter MFA '12

Wednesday, July 30, 5:30pm - Osher Hall

Anne Buckwalter’s creative practice explores the intersection of sexuality and domestic life. Inspired by the folk art traditions of her Pennsylvania Dutch heritage, her paintings arrange disparate objects in interior spaces, integrating the erotic with the mundane. By imagining obscure narratives that embrace paradoxes, her work delves into questions about the body, femininity, and desire.

Anne Buckwalter (b. 1987, Lancaster, PA) is a painter based in Durham, Maine. Anne is the recipient of a 2020-2021 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a 2020 Idea Fund Grant, and a 2016 Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Grant. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Galveston Artist Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Studios at Mass MoCA, Hewnoaks Artist Colony, Fores Project, and Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Her exhibition history includes the Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA; Boston University Gallery, Boston, MA; The Painting Center, New York, NY, and others.