The Department of Studio Art hosts a lecture by Sue Coe, an internationally recognized political, graphic artist and animal rights advocate serving as the School of the Arts’ Quattlebaum Artist-in-Residence for 2021. Coe’s profoundly moving drawings and prints focus on animal rights, marginalized populations and anticapitalist sentiments.

An illustrator since moving to the United States from England in 1972, Coe’s reputation by the early 1990s allowed her to set her own agenda with her editors, and her illustrations from that time period reflect this conflation, with politically pointed illustrations gracing the pages of a variety of disparate publications, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, The Progressive, The Nation among countless others. By the late 1980s, Coe had been featured on the cover of Art News and her work appeared in numerous museum collections and exhibitions, including a 1992 retrospective at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C.