DALS
Department of Art Lecture Series (DALS)
The Department of Art Lecture Series (DALS) brings renowned artists, designers, and scholars to Youngstown State University for lectures, workshops, and critiques. In addition to these events, our presenters spend time speaking to and working with art students, providing them the opportunity to meet with working professionals and discover more about what it means to be a successful designer, scholar, or visual artist.
All lectures are free and open to the public.
2025-2026 Department of Art Lecture Series to be announced September 2025
2024-2025 Department of Art Lecture Series
Teresa Dunn
Teresa Dunn is a Mexican American artist raised in rural Southern Illinois. Her identity, life, and art are influenced by her racial and cultural heritages, and the complexities of being a brown woman in the Midwest.
September 19, 5:10 PM - McDonough Lecture Hall 3000
Eva Kwong
Eva Kwong was born in Hong Kong and moved to New York as a teenager. Her lifelong interest in the intersection of the art and science of the natural world provides the conceptual framework and visual vocabulary for her wonderful art.
September 28, 5:10 PM - McDonough Lecture Hall 3000
Kyla Zoe Rafert
Kyla Zoe Rafert is a painter and printmaker living in central Ohio. Her work is psychologically driven and historically inspired. She creates highly detailed ahistorical tableaus that feature young women and girls in surrealistic, psychologically potent scenes.
October 17, 5:10 PM - McDonough Lecture Hall 3000
Andrea Myers
Andrea Myers, born 1979 in Kettering OH, USA, explores the space between two and three dimensionality, hybridizing painting, sculpture and fiber arts. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
February 8, 5:10 PM - McDonough Lecture Hall 3000
Brett Anderson
Brett Anderson is an Assistant Professor of printmaking at the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville. Brett grew up in central Missouri, earning his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Missouri in 1999.