Gallery Talk: Universal Language

a Gallery

• Date & Time Thursday, March 19

• Location Peeler Art Center, Lower Level Gallery

• About

  Join Curator Lyle Dechant for a gallery talk on Universal Language: The Art of Sexual and Gender Diversity. Selections from the Kinsey Institute Collection.

  The exhibition features highlights from the Kinsey Institute’s collection of material culture related to human sexuality, spanning 2,000 years of global history. Dechant will provide context for the works on view and discuss how the exhibition explores perspectives on sexuality, gender, and human identity.

  This event is free and open to the public.
  *This event counts toward punch card credit for students enrolled in an art history, art studio, or design course. Students may only count one event from this series for credit.

The Work of Risk: Guerilla Art for Surviving the Carceral Present*

a Lecture

• Date & Time Wednesday, April 1 2026

• Location The Richard E. Peeler Art Center, Auditorium

• About

  Faye Gleisser
  The Work of Risk: Guerilla Art for Surviving the Carceral Present
  This event is free and open to the public and made possible by the Karen Connell Speaker Series Fund.  
  
  As laws governing the freedom of expression and right to occupy space continue to change, artists continue to anticipate the presence of police and surveillance technologies, and the consequences of arrest, especially when creating confrontational or participatory performance and conceptual work beyond art-sanctioned spaces. How has the anticipation of punitive encounter taken shape materially and temporally in art? Relatedly, in what ways has the mis- or under-recognition of the racialized, gendered, and sexualized conditions of artists’ differing vulnerability to state-sanctioned violence contributed to the normalizing of carceral relations in the stories told most often about riskiness and resourcefulness in art practice? Art historian and cultural theorist, Dr. Faye Gleisser addresses these questions and their political implications for the present in her book, Risk Work: Making Art and Guerrilla Tactics in Punitive America, 1967-1987 (University of Chicago Press, 2023). In this talk, Gleisser draws upon Black feminist and queer of color theories of spatialized power and argues that artists’ calculation of citation and arrest is a form of knowledge—punitive literacy—that reveals salient insights into the ways carceral violence shapes the history of contemporary art. 

  Faye Gleisser (she/her) is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art and Critical Theory at Indiana University, Bloomington, where she is an affiliate of the Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society and American Studies. Gleisser is an interdisciplinary art historian and curator of 20th and 21st century art, specializing in performance art, archives, and carceral forms. Her scholarship has appeared in a number of exhibition catalogues, as well as in Art Journal, October, Artforum, Journal of Visual Culture, Women & Performance, ASAP/J, and Aperture, and is forthcoming in the Journal for Curatorial Studies. Her first book, Risk Work: Making Art and Guerrilla Tactics in Punitive America, 1967-1987 (University of Chicago Press, 2023), which analyzes the relationship of policing, state power, and guerrilla art practice in the United States, was awarded the ASAP Annual Book Prize in 2024. In her current book project, "Art History & Its Hormonal Methods," she examines the co-emergence of endocrinology, carcerality, and hormonal management alongside artists' use of somatic abolitionist art practice in order to rethink the "sensorial turn" and its political and social stakes.
  
  *This event counts towards punch card credit for students enrolled in an art history, art studio, or design studies course.

Open Studio Figure Drawing

• Date & Time Third Wednesday of every month, starting February 18

• Location The Richard E. Peeler Art Center, 203A

• About
  For students and adults who are wanting to improve their drawing skills through observational drawing from a live, clothed model.   All skill levels are welcome.
  All artists need to bring their own drawing supplies. Easels and drawing boards are available for use.
   
  There will be no instruction. The model will move through a series of poses increasing in length.

DePauw Spring Choral Concert

an Ensemble Concert

• Date & Time Sunday, April 19 • 3 p.m.

• Location Green Center for the Performing Arts, Kresge Auditorium

• About

  DePauw Spring Choral Concert
  Bryon Black II, director of choirs

DePauw Symphonic Band

an Ensemble Concert

• Date & Time Sunday, April 26 • 3 p.m.

• Location Green Center for the Performing Arts, Kresge Auditorium

• About

  DePauw Symphonic Band Concert
  Craig Paré, conductor

DePauw University Orchestra and Choirs

an Ensemble Concert

• Date & Time Sunday, May 3 • 3 p.m.

• Location Green Center for the Performing Arts, Kresge Auditorium

• About

  Orcenith Smith, orchestra director
  Bryon Black II, director of choirs

  The DePauw Institute of Music’s 141st concert season comes to an exciting close with this collaborative choir and orchestra concert directed by Profs. Orcenith Smith and Bryon Black II.