Enjoy past Roski Talks 
with renowned artists,
curators, designers and 
others in the creative fields

Click here for many interesting talks over the past decade. Many of these artists, designers, and curators also met one-on-one with students in their studios following their public lecture. Below are just a few of the recent Roski Talks provided free to the students of USC Roski as well as to the public.

lauren woods  |  October 8, 2019
lauren woods is a conceptual artist whose interdisciplinary hybrid media projects—film, video and sound installations, socially-engaged public interventions, and site-specific work—engage history as a lens by which to view the socio-politics of the present.
View the talk here.

Julio César Morales  |  September 17, 2019
Employing a range of media and visual strategies, artist, educator, and curator Julio César Morales explores issues of migration, underground economies, and labor, on personal and global scales.
View the talk here.

Ginger Shulick Porcella  |  October 15, 2019
"Deconstructing the Institution: Curating for the Community"
This lecture will address the evolving role of the curator as cultural producer and advocate for underrepresented voices in our nation’s cultural organizations.
View the talk here.
 

Paul Sahre  |  November 19, 2019
Having recently published a design memoir Two-Dimensional Man: A Graphic Memoir (published by Abrams Press, September, 2017), Sahre shared some of what he has learned during his first 52 years on planet earth (30 as a graphic designer).
View the talk here.