“Relay”: Special Art Installation by Leticia R. Bajuyo

April 23, 2026 - June 1, 2027 Admission

During the week of April 20-23, visiting artist Leticia R. Bajuyo will be installing a large, floating art piece in the halls of the Stauffacher building. Through her large-scale works, Leticia Bajuyo engages audiences and connects with communities through her site-specific installations that involve community collections of media and memories. By incorporating recognizable materials and forms including CDs, artificial grass, and insulation styrofoam, Bajuyo creates spaces and multi-layered experiences that invite audiences to participate in theatrical re-arbitrations of value.

Leticia R. Bajuyo is an interdisciplinary artist whose public commissions, immersive installations, and delicate visual poems transform collected audio media, cast metal, and synthetic remnants into carefully crafted objects that examine how identity, value, and desire are constructed and reshaped overtime. Her interest in unpacking value perceptions find their roots in her autobiography growing up bi-racial in a small, rural town named Metropolis on the border of Illinois and Kentucky. The time and space of quiet landscapes outside and the multi-national dialogues inside her family’s house influenced the development of her critiques of consumer capitalism, fickle domestic desires, and internalized pressures of assimilation. She has participated in national and international residency programs including Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg, Virginia; Fountainhead Residency in Miami, Florida; Sloss Metal Arts in Birmingham, Alabama, and the From Waste to Art Museum in Baku, Azerbaijan. In addition to her individual artwork, she seeks community by participating in artist collectives including Land Report Collective and Project Vortex and serving on the Mid-South Sculpture Alliance (MSA) board of directors and the National Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art and Practices (NCCCIAP) steering committee. Bajuyo received her B.F.A. from the University of Notre Dame and M.F.A. from the University of Tennessee. She is an Associate Professor of Sculpture at the University of Oklahoma. Prior to Oklahoma, she served as an Associate Professor at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi, Visiting Assistant Professor at Notre Dame, and Professor of Art at Hanover College. In addition, she has taught summer workshops at Anderson Ranch Arts Center and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, and chairs the Visual Arts panel for YoungArts in Miami, Florida.

Students and art enthusiasts are welcome and encouraged to come observe Leticia’s progress while this complicated piece is installed outside of the Goddard Gallery.

Website: www.leticiabajuyo.com