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March 2021
MFA First-Year Virtual Exhibition
Image Courtesy of the MFA Class of ’22 Our graduate visual arts students present their initial bodies of work across the mediums in this first-year review exhibition. Students Robert Acklen Clio Bravo Debra Cartwright Eliza…
Design Lecture Series: Lauren Lee McCarthy
Image Courtesy of the Artist This lecture is presented as part of the spring 2021 Design Lecture Series, free and open to all. Registration is required. Lauren Lee McCarthy (she/they) is an artist examining social relationships…
Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Caitlin Cherry
Caitlin Cherry (b. 1987) draws on painting, sculpture and installation in her multifaceted practice, coalescing into articulate and alluring representations of Black femininity. Filtering these media through layers of digital manipulation, her work draws parallels between Black femme bodies, frequently commodified and positioned as sexual assets, and the seductiveness of art objects in the commercial gallery circuit.
Design Lecture Series: Alice Wong
Image Courtesy of the Artist “Disability Visibility” This lecture is presented as part of the spring 2021 Design Lecture Series, free and open to all. Registration is required. Alice Wong (she/her) is a disabled activist,…
Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Jon Kessler
With his chaotic kinetic installations, Jon Kessler critiques our image-obsessed, surveillance-dominated world. His machines are at once complex and lumbering, combining mechanical know-how with kitschy materials and images. Structurally complex and narratively engaging, Jon Kessler’s multimedia sculptures often deliver an emotional punch beyond their humble means.
Artist Lecture: Sadie Barnette
Join us for a free virtual lecture with the Oakland-based artist Sadie Barnette, whose drawings, photography, and large-scale installations speak to the intersection of familial, cultural, and political history. This lecture is a part of an ongoing series of programs related to the Zimmerli Art Museum’s upcoming exhibition Angela Davis — Seize the Time, opening in September 2021. Q+A with the artist to follow.
Design Lecture Series: Shannon Mattern
Shannon Mattern is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at The New School in New York. For 14.5 years, she served as a faculty member in The New School’s School of Media Studies. Her writing and teaching focus on archives, libraries, and other media spaces; media infrastructures; spatial epistemologies; and mediated sensation and exhibition.
April 2021
Design Lecture Series: Shira Inbar
This lecture is presented as part of the spring 2021 Design Lecture Series, free and open to all. Registration is required. Shira Inbar is an independent graphic designer with an edge of motion graphics, working…
Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Cindy Ji Hye Kim
Cindy Ji Hye Kim utilizes a rich grayscale vocabulary in iconic representations of the body under duress. Synthesizing influences as disparate as early animation, construction scaffolding, pests and flora, medieval torture devices, and Korean folk arts, Kim’s depictions of the contorted human form speak to the limits not only of the body but also of the sayable.
Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Haruna Lee
Haruna Lee (they/them) is a Taiwanese/Japanese/American theater maker, educator and community steward whose work is rooted in a liberation-based healing practice. They are committed to promoting arts activism and emergent strategies for the theater through ethical and process-based collaborations that challenge systems and legacies of power, while inviting the fullness of marginalized bodies and the complexity of lived experience to their practice