UW-Stout's School of Art & Design Speaker Series invites professional artists and designers to provide special studio and classroom experiences for the student body’s various classroom disciplines. These professionals provide master classes and workshops visiting classes in the applicable fields that overlap with their art and design practice from across campus. In some cases, these creative professionals also collaborate with the Furlong Gallery to exhibit works. The highlight of the visiting artist/designer is a public presentation open to the Stout campus community.
2025-2026 Featured Artists
Daniel Gross & Joric Malta - Catalogtree : Implicit none, logical done
- Artist Talk: Tuesday, November 18, 2025 | 6:00p.m. (Harvey Hall Theater, Room 118)
Opening Reception: Furlong Gallery, Tuesday, November 18, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
- Catalogtree is a multidisciplinary design studio based in Arnhem (NL). It was founded in 2001 by Daniel Gross and Joris Maltha who met at Werkplaats Typografie. The studio works continuously on commissioned and self initiated projects. Highly interested in self-organising systems they believe in 'Form Equals Behaviour'. Experimental tool-making, programming, typography and the visualization of quantitative data are part of their daily routine.
- Recent endeavours include recycling pink plastic toys to create a way-finding system, turning a pocket calculator into a metal detector and designing a GIS route to the best spot for dropping a seventeen ton marble rock into the Mediterranean. Daniel Gross and Joris Maltha teach at ArtEZ Institute of the Arts in Arnhem (NL) and have taught and lectured widely. The work of Catalogtree is in the collection of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Museum of Design (NYC, USA), The Archive of Het Nieuwe Instituut (Rotterdam, NL) and the Museum of Design Zurich (Zurich, CH).
- For more information about Daniel Gross + Joris Maltha’s design studio, please visit: Catalogtree
Erinn Springer
- Artist Talk: Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025 | 6:00pm (Harvey Hall Theater, Room 118)
- Exhibition: Furlong Gallery, Tuesday, November 11 - Saturday, December 13th, 2025
Erinn Springer (American, b. 1993) is a visual artist from Dunn County, Wisconsin. Her work explores temporality through cycles of the land, memory, and mortality. Working with her immediate family and extended community, her intimate portrayals of everyday life reflect upon the relationship of imagination and reality. Her debut monograph Dormant Season was published in 2023 to international acclaim, reviewed in The New Yorker as an honest and incandescent portrait of the rural midwest. Her work has been featured in and commisioned by publications such as The New York Times, Die Zeit, Le Monde, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue, & others.
Amy Schmidt
- Public Presentation: Monday, February 16, 2025 | 6:00-7:00 p.m. (Harvey Hall, Room 118)
