The Duffy Speaker Series is presented by Wayne State University's James Pearson Duffy Department of Art, Art History, and Design. Free and open to the public, the Duffy Speaker Series invites distinguished artists and designers to campus to address students and the art community for lectures, reviews and studio visits. Seating is first come, first serve.

Angelo Madsen (previously known as Madsen Minax or Angelo Madsen Minax 2005-24) is a multi-disciplinary artist, filmmaker, and educator.

His projects consider how human relationships are woven through personal and collective histories, cultures, and kinships, with specific attention to subcultural experience, phenomenology, and the politics of desire.

Madsen's works have shown at Berlinale, Sundance, Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Tribeca, De La Warr Pavilion, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, REDCAT, Museum of Moving Image, Anthology Film Archives, British Film Institute, and dozens of documentary, LGBT, and experimental film festivals around the world.

He is a Creative Capital Fellow (2025), a United States Artists Fellow (2023), a Guggenheim Fellow (2022), and has participated in residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, Pioneer Works, Headlands, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, and others.

"Madsen," as friends call him, is an associate professor of time-based media at the University of Vermont. Currently, he is releasing A Body To Live in (2025) about the world of body modification, as documented through the lens of photographer and performance artist Fakir Musafar.