Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: MFA Candidates Corrigan Eckert & Jack Lehtinen
May 6 | 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Date & Time
Wednesday, May 6, 2026 (7:30–9 p.m.)
Location
Virtual
MFA Candidates Corrigan Eckert & Jack Lehtinen explore philosophical questions facing the human race and their connection to the world around them. Eckert is an emerging environmental artist who studies the impacts of place-based artworks on community engagement and land stewardship. Lehtinen’s artistic practice critiques AI technologies by contrasting automatic machine-made processes with tactile, hands-on practices like print and papermaking.
Eckert uses drawing, paper arts, painting, and various printmaking processes, to create dynamic art pieces that discuss issues facing the land, humans, and the greater than human beings that depend on it.
Lehtinen explores how AI is known to distort the human hand, literally in image generation, and metaphorically when considering what the human hand represents – a symbol of labor, creation, and agency that is being severed from its original value.
Throughout the fall and spring semesters, the Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series welcomes a diverse group of nationally and internationally recognized artists working across traditional, hybrid and emergent disciplines. Join us to explore and expand boundaries of creative visual practices alongside others with an interest in contemporary visual art.
Visit Corrigan Eckert’s website.
Visit Jack Lehtinen’s website.
Livestream Details
Zoom Meeting ID: 517 317 5108
Zoom Passcode: 974465