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, particularly emphasizing 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, the Sculpture Center, the 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 a community organizer, prison educator, and mother to her two children, Carlo and Rafa, who she shared with her partner, Luke Stettner. 

About the program:

This year-round calendar of art lectures gives students intellectual access to a diverse group of acclaimed artists, art historians, art educators, curators, and scholars. Our guests conduct on-campus talks about their art, research, and careers, adding to the pedagogical discourse of contemporary art in the classroom. Visiting speakers are proposed and voted on by a committee of faculty and graduate students across disciplines. All VAS events are free and open to the public, which is an important educational program for the regional art scene. Hyatt Regency Atlanta, BURNAWAY, and the Ernest G. Welch Foundation have partly sponsored this year's series.