Art + Architecture Building, McCarty Auditorium, 5:30pm Colette Fu is a Philadelphia-based artist who received her MFA in Fine Art in Photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2003, and soon after, began devising complex compositions that incorporate photography and pop-up paper engineering. Her pop-up books are housed in esteemed institutions such as the […]
Art + Architecture Building, McCarty Auditorium, 5:30pm Alex Paik is an artist, community builder, curator, and writer based in Los Angeles. He is Founder and Director of Tiger Strikes Asteroid, a non-profit network of artist-run spaces and serves on the Steering Committee at GYOPO, a collective of diasporic Korean cultural producers and arts professionals. https://www.alexpaik.com
Art + Architecture Building, McCarty Auditorium, 7:30pm Mandy Cano Villalobos is an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans installation, 2D, performance, and sculpture. Her projects explore ideas of home, memory and cultural identity. Cano Villalobos has exhibited in venues including Bridge Projects (Los Angeles, CA), POSITIONS Art Fair (Berlin, DE), Proyecto T (Mexico City), Proyecto Pikaro […]
Art + Architecture Building, McCarty Auditorium, September 30, 5:30pm Rhiannon Skye Tafoya (b. 1989) is an interdisciplinary artist from the Eastern Band of Cherokee and the Santa Clara Pueblo Tribes. She earned a BFA in printmaking from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM, and an MFA in print media from Pacific […]
Art + Architecture Building, McCarty Auditorium, September 11, 5:30pm Xia is a multi-disciplinary artist born in southern China, grew up in suburban Maryland, and came into adulthood in Appalachia. She works with process as a physical and conceptual medium to convey intersectional concepts of craft, colonialism, and femininity. Historical research of othered-ness heavily influences the […]
Art + Architecture Building, McCarty Auditorium, April 3rd, 5:30pm (Presented in partnership with Tri-Star Arts) Born in 1980 in New York, Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi currently lives and works in Johannesburg. Nkosi obtained her BA from Harvard University (2004) and her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York (2008). She divides her time between studio […]
Ambrose Rhapsody Murray (she/they) is a self-taught artist with roots in Florida and Asheville, NC. Through sewing, painting, material experimentation, film and collaborative projects, they create stories to investigate our relationships to the colonial undercurrents of our lives, the charged symbology of black feminine bodies, and the ephemeral and layered qualities of memory and remembering. […]
Art + Architecture Building, Room 109, April 10th, 5:30pm Zoom Link: https://tennessee.zoom.us/meeting/register/mTVzqOYQS92mMMc4CMpZ6g Jeanette Mundt lives and works in New York. She has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions internationally at venues including TANK, Shanghai; New Museum, New York; G2 Kunsthalle, Leipzig; Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster; Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux; David Zwirner, New York; Company, New York; […]
Olivia Jia received a BFA from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia in 2017. She has had solo exhibitions at Margot Samel, New York, NY and Workplace, London, UK. She has been included in group exhibitions at venues including Workplace, London, UK; Commonweal, Philadelphia, PA; La Nao, Mexico City, MX; Margot Samel, New York, NY; […]
William Downs’ artwork explores themes of ambiguity and distortion viewed through repetition and representation of the human body. His drawings reveal “feelings of anxiety, fear, joy, angst” or desire with compositions inspired by Cezanne that appear dream-like or otherworldly. He often depicts “people who train their bodies to do inhuman things like run a marathon […]
Filsoofi, a collector of soil and sound, is an itinerant artist, feminist curator and community advocate. Her work revolves around themes of movement, immigration, and social activism. Clay and sound serve as her primary expressive mediums, enabling her to create diverse narratives through multimedia installations and performances. Her art disrupts the borders that exist between […]
Esteban del Valle is a Brooklyn, NY based artist originally from Chicago, IL. He received his M.F.A. from RISD and has exhibited his work and produced murals internationally. His work has been featured in various publications, including Hi-Fructose and Washington Post. Del Valle has been the recipient of several visual arts residencies and fellowships including […]
Ground-breaking filmmaker, Cecelia Condit, will give an artist talk punctuated by screenings of her video works from 1981-present. Condit’s videos have created heroines whose lives swing between beauty and the grotesque, innocence and cruelty, youth and fragility. Her work puts a subversive spin on the traditional mythology of women in film and the psychology of […]
LaToya M. Hobbs is an artist, wife, and mother of two from Little Rock, AR, who is currently living and working in Baltimore, MD. She received her B.A. in Painting from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and M.F.A. in Printmaking from Purdue University. Her work deals with figurative imagery that addresses the ideas […]
Alonzo Pantoja is a queer, brown artist and educator – he earned his MFA in Fiber and Installation from Minneapolis College of Art and Design; BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
A native of New Orleans, LA, Katrina Andry received an M.F.A in printmaking in 2010. She currently lives and works in New Orleans where she maintains a studio.
