Artist Talks Are Back At UNLV

Artist talks are back for fall 2025. Between now and the end of November, the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art auditorium will host informative live lectures by Carmen Winant, Audrey Barcio, Alexandra Magnuson, and Josephine Halvorson. Two more artists, Miguel Novelo and Danielle SeeWalker, will speak in John S. Wright Hall (WRI), a short walk across the garden from our building.

Dates and times

Thursday, September 11

Carmen Winant

Thursday, September 18

Miguel Novelo (in WRI Building C, Room 144)

Thursday, October 2

Audrey Barcio

Thursday, November 6

Danielle SeeWalker (in WRI Building C, Room 144)

Thursday, November 13

Alexandra Magnuson

Thursday, November 20

Josephine Halvorson

All of the lectures will begin at 7 p.m. They are open to the public and free. Seating may be limited. This lecture series is created and organized by UNLV’s Department of Art.

More about the Artists

Carmen Winant

Carmen Winant is an artist and the Roy Lichtenstein Chair of Studio Art at the Ohio State University. Her work utilizes archival and authored photographs to examine feminist care networks, with particular emphasis on intergenerational, multiracial, and sometimes transnational coalition building. Winant's recent projects have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Sculpture Center, Wexner Center of the Arts, ICA Boston, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and el Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo. Winant's artist’s books include My Birth (2018), Notes on Fundamental Joy (2019), and Instructional Photography: Learning How To Live Now (2021); Arrangements, A Brand New End: Survival and Its Pictures (both 2022), and The Last Safe Abortion (2024). Winant is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in photography, a 2020 FCA Artist Honoree and a 2021 American Academy of Arts and Letters award recipient. She is also a community organizer, prison educator, and mother to her two children, Carlo and Rafa, shared with her partner, Luke Stettner.

Miguel Novelo

Miguel Novelo (he/him/el) is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and researcher who focuses on emerging media and community organizing—currently working on algorithmic movies , technoshammanic installations , thermodynamic hypnotism, and friendly computer viruses. Novelo earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2018, followed by a Master of Fine Arts from Stanford University in 2022. 

His work has been exhibited at various institutions, including the de Young Museum, the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) in Mexico City, and numerous international film festivals. Currently a lecturer at Stanford University and San Jose State University.

Audrey Barcio

Audrey Barcio is a visual artist who combines feminist symbology with sacred geometry to impart structures of strength and power.

Barcio is a  2021 Joan Mitchell Fellowship nominee and 2019 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant recipient. She earned her MFA from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and her BAE from Herron School of Art and Design and has completed residencies at the Pont -Aven School of Contemporary Art, Vermont Studio Center, and Rodgers Foundation. 

Recent exhibitions include solo exhibitions at Random Access Syracuse University, Tube Factory, Las Vegas Government Center, The Studio at West Sahara, Echo Arts Bozeman, and Czong Institute for Contemporary Art. Her work is included in the collection of the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, Las Vegas, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, South Korea and the Rogers Foundation.

Her work has been featured in New American Paintings, New Art Examiner, Occhi Magazine, PATTERN, NUVO, and Las Vegas Weekly. Barcio splits her time between Chicago, IL and Muncie, IN, where she is an Assistant Professor at Ball State University. 

Danielle SeeWalker

Danielle SeeWalker is Húŋkpapȟa Lakȟóta and citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota. She is a fine artist, muralist, writer, activist, and boymom of two, based in Denver, Colorado. Her visual artwork often incorporates the use of mixed media and experimentation while incorporating traditional Native American materials, scenes, and messaging. Her artwork pays homage to her identity as a Lakȟóta wíŋyaŋ (woman) and her passion to redirect the narrative to an accurate and insightful representation of contemporary Native America while still acknowledging historical events.

Alongside her passion for creating visual art, Danielle is a freelance writer and published her first book in 2020 titled, Still Here: A Past to Present Insight of Native American People & Culture. She stays involved with her Native community and has served as a mayoral appointed City Commissioner for the Denver American Indian Commission since 2019. Danielle has also been working on a personal, passion project since 2013 with her long-time friend called The Red Road Project. The focus of the work is to document, through words and photographs, what it means to be Native American in the 21st century by capturing inspiring and positive stories of people and communities within Indian Country.

Alexandra Magnuson

Alexandra Magnuson is a multi-faceted creative producer and artist advisor distinguished by her extensive experience working with artist studios, galleries, and new business ventures to realize complex art works and installations. She has worked with numerous prominent artists, studios, and foundations, including Michael Hezier, Chris Burden, Mary Weatherford, Nancy Rubins, Frank Gehry, and Glenn Kaino. As a long-time artist liaison and salesperson at Gagosian, Alex developed a comprehensive understanding of the stewardship of primary and secondary art markets. Specializing in large-scale sculpture and installations, Alex has played a key role in the development and ongoing strategy around some of the most well known and staggeringly complex public artworks ever executed. She has extensive experience in virtually every function of a blue-chip gallery, including managing artist and business needs from end-to-end, contributing to and editing publications, pioneering new studio and archival systems, negotiating and creating media strategies, and developing new clients. After Gagosian, she was the Director of Sales and Artist Management at Superblue, where she pioneered new ways of producing and monetizing large-scale artist projects.

Josephine Halvorson

Josephine Halvorson makes art from direct observation, foregrounding the firsthand experience of noticing, describing, and learning from the physical world. She works primarily in painting, but also in sculpture and printmaking. 

She received her MFA from Columbia University in 2007, her BFA from The Cooper Union in 2003, and attended Yale Norfolk in 2002. She is the recipient of several international residencies and fellowships, including a US Fulbright to Vienna, Austria; the Harriet Hale Woolley Award at the Fondation des États-Unis in Paris, France; the first American pensionnaire at the French Academy in Rome at the Villa Medici; and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. Her work is represented by Sikkema Malloy Jenkins, NY, and Peter Freeman, Paris. She has presented work internationally at such institutions as the Storm King Art Center, the ICA Boston, and the Havana Biennale. In 2021 she presented a solo exhibition of site responsive work at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, NM, where she was the Museum’s first artist in residence. Her work and practice have been written about widely in online and print periodicals such as The Brooklyn Rail, Frieze, ArtForum, and Hyperallergic. Halvorson is a subject of Art21’s documentary series New York Close Up. Since 2016, she has been Professor of Art and Chair of Graduate Studies in Painting at Boston University. She has also taught at The Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, The Cooper Union, Princeton University, the University of Tennessee Knoxville, Columbia University, and Yale University.