The Visual Arts Program at SCSU has hosted a wide variety of visiting artists from the Southeast region and beyond. Faculty have organized slide lectures, exhibitions and student critiques with guest artists from a myriad of disciplines. Visiting artists have included:
- Virginia Casey, Ceramic Artist, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 1999
- Herb Parker, Sculptor, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, 2000
- Michael Hale, Sculptor, Benedict College, Columbia, SC, 2001
- Barry Jones, Installation Artist, Middle Georgia College, Dublin, GA, 2001
- Diane Buck, Professor of Art Education, Columbia College, SC, 2001
- Keith Smith, Ceramic Artist, University of Florida, Tallahassee, FL, 2002
- Kwame Dawes, Poet, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. 2002
- Carrie Mae Weems, Photographer, New York, NY, 2003
- Diane Edison, Painter, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 2003
- Heather Hoover, Printmaker, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC, 2004
- Tyrone Geter, Painter, Benedict College, Columbia, SC, 2004
- Edgar Sorrells-Adewale, Sculptor, Howard University, Washington, D.C., 2005
- Alvin Staley, Painter, Claflin University, Orangeburg, SC, 2005
- Janet Orselli, Installation Artist, Columbia, SC 2006