Visiting Artist Colloquium
Details of visiting artists Colloquium artist works who are joining the Fall 2026 line up. details pictured left to right: Todd Stong, Dona nelson, Catherine Telford Keogh, Federica von euw '07.
The Visiting Artist Colloquium, hosted by the Art Program, brings practicing artists and architects to Swarthmore College throughout the academic year to present their work. The VAC series is an integral component of the Art Program. In addition to a public lecture on their work, visiting artists meet with senior art majors to conduct individual studio critiques. The VAC lectures take place At 4PM on the second floor bridge space in Whittier Hall, adjacent to the Senior Studios. The lectures are followed by a Q&A session and reception. All VAC talks are free and open to the entire community.
2026-2027 Visiting artist lineup:
Todd Stong
Friday, September 18, 2026, 4pm talk
Todd Stong is an artist, curator, teacher, and writer based in Philadelphia, PA. Working in figuration across extremes of scale, in intimate graphite drawings and monumental, scenic monotypes, Todd makes images that elaborate on processes of queer cultural production and power. With focus vibrating between the world-building capacities of visionary individuals and the tangle of the crowd, the artist hopes to live into the identities of queer and forgotten art-historical figures of the past with deep empathetic feeling. Populating imagery is an array of figures and skeletons in a mesh of interface and disconnect – some at work, some aroused, others in danger, still more making mischief. In addition to addressing larger political structures and biographies, these scenes represent the artist’s experience as a gay man interacting with other men and the world at large, with all the accompanying risk, transgression, and reward.
Dona Nelson
Friday, October 30, 2026
Dona Nelson moved to New York City in 1967 to participate in the Whitney Independent Study Program. She received her BFA from Ohio State University in 1968.
She has participated in the 2014 Whitney Biennial and in group shows at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Rose Art Museum, Contemporary Art Museum Houston and South Florida, Boston University Art Gallery, New York University 80WSE, CCS Bard,
Espace Tajan exhibited Nelson’s paintings in Paris in the fall of 2019, adding to a long list of widely reviewed solo shows at galleries such as Michael Benevento Los Angeles, Locks Gallery Philadelphia, Cheim & Read, Michael Klein, and Rosa Esman (all New York); including a mid-career solo exhibition at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, which was accompanied by a full color catalogue. Her paintings have been included in group shows at Thaddaeus Ropac, London, Morán Morán, Los Angeles, Ceysson & Bénétière, Luxembourg, as well as Deitch Projects, Lisson Gallery, Robert Miller, Mary Boone, Canada Gallery and d’Amelio Terras (all New York). Nelson’s work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Guggenheim Museum, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Rose Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Perez Art Museum, Kadist Foundation, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Albright-Knox, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Carnegie Museum of Art, ICA Miami, The Museum of Nebraska Art, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, Des Moines Art Center, Pompidou Paris, Shah Garg Foundation, Madison Scranton Memorial Library Connecticut, Bromley Companies Collection Tampa, and Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia. Nelson’s work is additionally a part of Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, and Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond at the Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY. Her work is included in 52 Womxm Artists: Revisiting a Feminist Milestone at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, CT. In the Premiere Sector of Art Basel Basel her work can be seen in a two-person project with Andrew Ross in June 2026.
Catherine Telford Keogh
Friday, November 13, 2026
Catherine Telford Keogh is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores systems of containment, circulation and consumption that structure the bonds between language, biomatter, commodity objects, and waste. She received an MFA in Sculpture from the Yale School of Art and an MAR in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies from Yale University. She has held recent solo exhibitions at Helena Anrather, New York; Roberta Palen, Toronto; University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo, and also exhibited at the Bronx Museum, New York, Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montreal and Interstate, New York. She is an artist-in-residence at the Pelling Laboratory for Augmented Biology at the University of Ottawa where she is examining the bacterial metabolism of waste.
https://www.catherinetelfordkeogh.com/
Federica von Euw ‘07
Friday, December 4, 2026
Partner at von Euw Tetrault, Federica von Euw graduated from Swarthmore College in 2007 and the University of Pennsylvania in 2011 with a Masters of Architecture degree. Immediately thereafter she began collaborating at Herzog & de Meuron in Basel, Switzerland, where she contributed to, and led, a wide range of projects located in Switzerland, Italy, and the United States. Her notable projects include the Asklepios 8 office building on the Novartis Campus in Basel, Switzerland, a multi-use building for Feltrinelli Books in Milan, Italy, and the 1111 Lincoln Road Extension in Miami. Due to her international background, Federica speaks English, Spanish, German, Swiss German, and French fluently. Federica is a licensed architect in the state of Ohio.
