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Art Department Announces Fall 2024 Visiting Artists, Curators, and Practitioners Lecture Series

September 13, 2024 Arts

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From top, in circle: Zachary Fabri (photo credit: Daniele Molajoli); Qais Assali, Dawoud, Ya Yonathai, six minute performative video, 2021; “Two”, 2011, Animation Still by Steven Subotnick

The Art Department has announced the fall 2024 Visiting Artists, Curators, and Practitioners Lecture series, which kicks off on Thursday, Sept. 19, at 4 p.m. with a talk by Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist Zachary Fabri in the Studio Arts Building, Room 240. All lectures are free and open to the public.

The series offers diverse and vibrant programming of between 5-6 speakers, each of whom conducts a lecture centered on their work and practice, as well as visiting with students in their studio settings. The Art Department is collecting and archiving its recorded lectures online, where they are available to students and the public. Visit the archive here.

The fall schedule is as follows.

 

Fall 2024 Art Department Visiting Artist Lecture

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Zachary Fabri
Photo credit: Daniele Molajoli

Zachary Fabri
Thursday, Sept. 19, 4 p.m.
Studio Arts Building Room 240

 The Art Department is honored to welcome Zachary Fabri on campus. Zachary Fabri is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist engaged in lens-based media and public space. He works across video, drawing, and installation, often complicating the boundaries of studio research and performance. He is the recipient of awards that include The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art, the New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, and the BRIC Colene Brown Art Prize. Fabri’s work has been exhibited at Art in General, The Studio Museum in Harlem, El Museo del Barrio, The Walker Art Center, The Brooklyn Museum, Performa, and the Ludwig Museum in Budapest, Hungary. Collaborative projects include the Museum of Modern Art, the Sharjah Biennial, and Pace Gallery. Recent solo exhibitions include CUE Art Foundation, The Korn Gallery at Drew University, and The Nicholson Project. Currently, Zachary Fabri is the recipient of the 2024 Nancy B. Negley Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome.
 

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Qais Assali, Dawoud, Ya Yonathai, six minute performative video, 2021
Photo credit: Qais Assali, Dawoud, Ya Yonathai, six minute performative video, 2021

Qais Assali
Tuesday, Oct. 9, 4 p.m.
Studio Arts Building Room 240

The Art Department is honored to welcome Qais Assali on campus. Qais Assali is an interdisciplinary artist/designer born in Palestine in 1987 and raised in the UAE before returning to Palestine in 2000. Assali taught in Visual Communication at Al-Ummah University College, Jerusalem, Michigan State University, MI, and Vanderbilt University, TN. Recently, Assali joined the School of the Museum of Fine Arts' faculty at Tufts University, Boston, MA. Assali was a 2019-21 Core Fellow at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX. Assali’s work has been exhibited at Hauser & Wirth, NY; Middle East Institute, DC; Station Museum of Contemporary Art, TX; Stamps Gallery, University of Michigan, MI; Toronto Queer Film Festival 2021, Canada; SculptureCenter, NY; Chicago Cultural Center, IL, Glassell School of Arts, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX; Temporary Art Center (TAC), Netherlands; and Qalandiya International, Palestine. Assali is the recipient of Art Matters Foundation grant; Chicago Artists Coalition Spark Grant; Houston Arts Alliance Digital Grant; Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts - Idea Fund; SAIC New Artists’ Society Award; and Palest’In & Out Festival - Plastic Art Prize. Assali holds four degrees in visual arts from Palestine and the U.S, a BFA in Graphic Design from An-Najah National University 2009, and a BA in Contemporary Visual Art from the International Academy of Art Palestine 2017. Assali simultaneously completed an MFA from Bard College, NY 2019, and an MA in Art Education from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL 2018.

 

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“Two”, 2011, Animation Still
“Two”, 2011, Animation Still

Steven Subotnick
Thursday, Nov. 21, 4pm
Studio Arts Building, Room 240

The Art Department is honored to welcome Steven Subotnick on campus. Steven’s animations are condensed and poetic. Through an experimental and iterative process of making and editing, he explores resonances found in subjects as diverse as history, science, evolution, and religion. His artwork begins in the physicality of materials - paper, ink, paint, paper-mache, rags, photographs, wood - which are then transformed through digital manipulation. His goal is to embody ideas in the act of making - a film about evolution is drawn straight-ahead with closed eyes. Sound is an important part of his filmmaking. He crafts tracks in order to give voice to the images, and it is the combination of image and sound which creates the film’s full identity. Steven’s films have screened in festivals, galleries, museums, and curated shows around the world. He is the recipient of major grants and fellowships, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, an LEF Fellowship, and an AFI Fellowship. His films have won such awards as “Grand Prix” at the Holland Animation Film Festival and the “High Risk Award” at the Fantoche Animation Festival. In 2018, he had a retrospective of his films at the Ottawa International Animation Festival. He has received residencies at the MacDowell Colony and the Yaddo Corporation. Steven is also a dedicated teacher. He has taught animation for over thirty years at colleges and universities, including Harvard University, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and Rhode Island School of Design, where he currently teaches senior animation thesis projects.

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