Visiting Artist Series
About the Visiting Artist Series
The College of DuPage Visiting Artist Series provides opportunities for the community to interact with leaders in the field of contemporary art, design and culture. Through lectures, conversations and workshops, a diverse range of art professionals provide students with new perspectives on contemporary artistic practices.
The series is a collaboration between the Cleve Carney Museum of Art and the Fine Arts, Architecture and Photography programs. All lectures are free and open to the public. Times and Locations are subject to change.
Past lectures are available to view in our video library.
Speaker Schedule 2025-26
NICOLE MARROQUIN
Lecture: November 19th, 2025, 1:00 pm
Belushi Auditorium
AIR, Nick Satinover
Lecture: February 11th, 2026, 11:00 am
Belushi Auditorium
Norman Teague
Lecture: March 10th, 2026, 11:00 am
Belushi Auditorium
Jessica Calderwood
Lecture: April 16th, 2026, 1:00 pm
Belushi Auditorium
Speakers 2025-26
Jordan Martins
Visiting Artist
Lecture: September 16, 2025, 1-2 PM
Belushi Auditorium
Jordan Martins (b. 1979) is a Chicago based visual artist, curator, musician, and educator. He received his MFA in visual arts from the Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) in Salvador, Brazil in 2007. He is the executive director of Comfort Station, a multi-disciplinary art space in Chicago, and a lecturer in the Sculpture department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Martins’s visual work is based in collage processes, including painting, photography, video and installation, and he has exhibited nationally and internationally. His work has been featured in exhibitions at Stove Works, Goldfinch, The Mission, Evanston Art Center, LVL3, The Franklin, The Museu de Arte da Bahia, Zeitgeist, and Experimental Sound Studio. He was recently featured in volume 155 of New American paintings. Martins is co-director of the Perto da Lá <> Close to There, a multidisciplinary project with international artists in Salvador, Brazil and Chicago funded by the MacArthur Foundation’s International Connections Fund.
Tali Weinberg
Visiting Artist
Lecture: October 9, 2025, 11 AM - 12 PM
Belushi Auditorium
Tali Weinberg is an internationally exhibited interdisciplinary artist and weaver. She combines plant fibers and dyes with plastics and data to explore relationships between ecological and human health. Her work is in the collections of the Berkeley Art Museum, Denver Botanic Gardens, and Georgia Museum of Art and has been featured in the Fifth National Climate Assessment, The New York Times, Colossal, and NRDC’s onEarth Magazine, among others. She is the recipient of an Illinois Artist Fellowship, a Tulsa Artist Fellowship, and numerous residencies including at New York’s Museum of Art and Design. She holds a BA and MA from New York University and an MFA from California College of the Arts.
Nicole Marroquin
Visiting Artist
Lecture: November 19, 2025, 1-2 PM
Belushi Auditorium
Nicole Marroquin is a transdisciplinary artist and teacher educator who explores youth resistance movements, belonging and spatial justice through BIPOC Midwest histories. She presents scholarship and exhibits internationally, is a 2022 United States Artist Fellowship recipient, a member of the Chicago ACT and justseeds collectives and is Professor at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan
AIR, Nick Satinover
Visiting Artist
Lecture: February 11th, 2026, 11 AM - 11:45 AM
Belushi Auditorium
Nick Satinover is an artist and educator based outside of Nashville, TN. He holds BFA and MFA degrees from Wright State University, Dayton, OH, and Illinois State University, Normal, IL, respectively. He has been an artist-in-residence at the Frans Masereel Center in Kasterlee, Belgium, Kala Artist Institute in Berkeley, CA, the Tofte Lake Center in Ely, MN, In Cahoots, Petaluma, CA, and Mass MoCA in North Adams, MA. His work has been exhibited widely nationally in solo, group and juried exhibitions. He is currently an Associate Professor of Print Media at Middle Tennessee State University where he operates Economy Island, a Risograph-based collaborative Micropublishing press. He keeps a tidy home with his partner, twin sons and rescue animals.
Norman Teague
Visiting Artist
Lecture: March 10th, 2026, 11 AM -12 PM
Belushi Auditorium
Norman Teague is a designer, educator, and community advocate whose practice reclaims the overlooked histories of Black labor, craft, and innovation in American design. Inspired by trailblazers like Chuck Harrison, he centers cultural memory and community engagement in projects that elevate everyday narratives.
His 2024–25 MoMA solo exhibition Designer’s Choice: Jam Sessions reimagined iconic objects through generative AI and Black craft traditions, while his contribution to the 2023 U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale transformed discarded plastics into vibrant vessels inspired by Ghanaian basketry and Afro-Futurist aesthetics.
A co-founder of blkHaUS studios, Teague has completed projects across Chicago and Nigeria for clients including Solange Knowles and the MCA. He is an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago’s School of Design and holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Jessica Calderwood
Visiting Artist
Lecture: April 16th, 2026, 1 - 2 PM
Belushi Auditorium
Trained as a metalsmith and enamelist, Jessica Calderwood’s art objects make statements about contemporary life using craft-based media. Since receiving her BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art and her MFA from Arizona State University, her work has been exhibited extensively throughout the U.S. and internationally. She has participated in artist residencies with the John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Program, Ferro Corporation, Mesa Arts Center, and Pittsburgh Glass Center. Her work has also been published in Metalsmith Magazine, American Craft, and the Art of Enameling, amongst others. Work from her various series can be found in numerous collections, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Racine Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. She is currently a Professor of Art at Ball State University.
Visiting Artist Lectures Video Library
Check out our full library for more artist talks and interviews.