‘(Re)Visiting’ celebrates the history of visiting artists at UMass Boston

Gallery director and curator Sam Toabe and associate professor Christopher Schade celebrates the Visiting Artist Lecture Series in the University Hall Gallery’s latest exhibition, “(Re)Visiting,” on display now until April 5.

 

The Visiting Artist series is organized by Schade himself, and invites acclaimed professional artists each semester to give a public talk in a studio art or art history class on campus. Afterward, the artist engages in visual art critiques of students’ work.

The initial concept came from a previous speaker series he founded with his wife Zoe Pettijohn Schade and friend Michael Lee in 2011. Inspired by “the Club” — a famous 1950s gathering of artists — Schade was interested in creating a community where artists could meet and connect on a deeper level through discussions of their art. He decided to bring back the concept upon his hire at UMass Boston in 2016.