Visiting Artist Colloquium
Details of visiting artists Colloquium artist works who are joining the Fall 2026 line up. details pictured left to right: Todd Strong, Dona nelson, Catherine Telford Keogh, Federica von euw.
During the course of the academic year, a series of visiting artists speak about their work and studio practice. each artist provides a unique opportunity for students enrolled in any art courses to interact with working artists in an in depth way, learning about their artistic process and what variety of career paths can be forged when pursuing a career in art. artist Talks last roughly 45 minutes with additional time for a Q&A afterwards. Our visiting artists provide one-on-one studio critiques with Art and Architectural Studies (Studio track) senior majors.
All colloquium talks will take place on the second floor bridge of Whittier hall.
2026-2027 Visiting artist lineup:
Todd Strong
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
Nelson has been making two-sided paintings since 2003, and the pieces continue to evolve because the artist has continued to develop masked areas covered with gel medium. These areas block watery paint passing through the canvas. A painting like And the Sun Went Down, is very different on the back of the painting than the front, a surface that looks, on first glance, extremely gestural, but never could have been made directly, because all the lines and marks appear simultaneously. The front of And the Sun Went Down is an image that is constructed by successive passes with wet paint over the back of the stretched canvas.
Catherine Telford Keogh
Friday, November 13, 2026
Catherine Telford Keogh iis 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.
