KBAI Lecture Series

Joshua Kosker: Jewelry/Metals/Enameling

Sunday, June 7, 2026

Joshua Kosker is a contemporary jeweler and visual artist based in western Michigan. His work explores craft, materiality and the body through unexpected and often ephemeral materials, challenging traditional ideas of value and permanence in jewelry and objects. Read more about Joshua Kosker

Tyanna Buie: Print Media & Photography

Monday, June 8, 2026

Tyanna J. Buie is an artist and educator whose work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions nationally. A native of Chicago and Milwaukee, Buie has received fellowships and awards including the Joan Mitchell Painters & Sculptors Grant, the Kresge Artist Fellowship and the Ruth Arts/Mary L. Nohl Alumni Award. Read more about Tyanna Buie

Maura Wright: Ceramics

Tuesday, June 9, 2026

Maura Wright is a Kansas City-based visual artist working primarily in earthenware clay and painted paper. Her ceramic vessels, still life sculptures and large-scale installations draw from Rococo ornamentation, interior fresco painting and the expressiveness of touch in American folk art. Read more about Maura Wright

Elbert Joseph Perez: Painting

Thursday, June 11, 2026

Elbert Joseph Perez is a self-taught painter based in Hudson, New York. His oil paintings draw from personal symbolism, art history, philosophy and literature to create allegorical narratives that reflect on the fragility and strength of the human psyche. Read more about Elbert Joseph Perez

Dylan Ethan Collins: Sculpture & Expanded Media

Friday, June 12, 2026

Dylan Ethan Collins is a mixed-media artist whose research explores the intersection of traditional and digital artmaking methods. His practice includes drawing, steel fabrication, blacksmithing, 3D printing, CNC cutting, mold making, metal casting and found object assemblage. Read more about Dylan Ethan Collins

Jason Lee Starin: Ceramics

Saturday, June 13, 2026

Jason Lee Starin is a ceramic artist whose work has been shown in group exhibitions across the United States. His practice uses ceramics, discarded objects and construction materials to explore relationships among craft, escapism, emotional awareness and the physical environments people inhabit. Read more about Jason Lee Starin

Ryan Gardner: Jewelry/Metals/Enameling

Sunday, June 14, 2026

Ryan Gardner is a jewelry artist and metalsmith based in Ohio. Through Ryan Gardner Designs, he creates one-of-a-kind works that combine stone and metal, often beginning with rough stones that he cuts, polishes or carves by hand. Read more about Ryan Gardner

Ellie Krakow: Sculpture & Expanded Media

Monday, June 15, 2026

Ellie Krakow is an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans sculpture, drawing and photography. Her practice combines bodily representation with forms inspired by medical intervention and seeks to claim a place for the sick body within the lineage of figurative sculpture. Read more about Ellie Krakow

Trudy Benson: Painting

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Trudy Benson is a painter based in the Hudson Valley, New York. Her work examines painterly layering as image and process, with compositions that reference systems of organization such as grids, networks and sequences. Read more about Trudy Benson

Leslie Diuguid: Print Media & Photography

Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Leslie Diuguid is a Brooklyn-based artist, printmaker and founder of Du-Good Press. Her practice combines technical precision with creative collaboration, and she is committed to expanding access to the arts through screenprinting, teaching and community-centered work. Read more about Leslie Diuguid