Lectures & Events Coordinated

Christopher Ulivo: Artist Lecture, February 13, 2013, Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA

Christopher Ulivo (Staten Island, NY, 1977) received his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and his BFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University. He has exhibited extensively with solo exhibitions at Susan Inglett Gallery (NY) and group exhibitions including First Contact at Field Projects (NY), Nature, Once Removed: The (Un)Natural World in Contemporary Drawing at Lehman College (NY), and Tales of Wonder and Woe: Fable and Fairy Tale in Contemporary Art at Castle Gallery (NY). Ulivo is also co-curator of the currently traveling exhibit, In Search Of..., which has been on view at Rhodes College (TN), Kansas University (KN) and North Branch Projects in Chicago, IL. He has received artist in residence fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation, the Hall Farm Art Center and the Abrons Art Center. His work has also been reviewed in TimeOut New York, The Brooklyn Rail, Philadelphia Weekly, and Art New England.Photo by Emilia Dattilo.

Brian Scott Campbell: Artist Lecture, November 28, 2012, Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA

Brian Scott Campbell joined the Art Department at Santa Barbara City College as Assistant Professor of Drawing in September 2012. During his career, Campbell has participated in numerous exhibitions including No Land at Kunsthalle Galapogos (NY), Intuitive Realities at Cuchifritos Gallery (NY) and Bronx Calling: The 1st AIM Biennial at the Bronx Museum (NY), as well as Anonymous Drawings at Kunstraum Kreuzberg (Berlin, Germany). In addition, he is the recipient of several awards including funded residencies the McColl Center for Visual Art (NC) and the Vermont Studio Center (VT). Furthermore, his work is included in curated registries at the Drawing Center (NY) and White Columns (NY). His work has also been featured in New American Paintings Magazine, Hyperallergic, and Beautiful Decay. Brian Scott Campbell received his BFA from the Columbus College of Art and Design (OH) and his MFA from Rutgers’ Mason Gross School of the Arts (NJ). Photo by James Ryang.

The Sea of Tranquility: An Original Piece of Theater, conceived & directed by Morgan FitzPatrick Andrews, March 2-4, 2012, Rutherfurd Hall, Allamuchy, NJ

Titled The Sea of Tranquility, the theatrical production is described by the director in the following way: An eccentric preacher, a star-gazing lawyer, a mysterious servant girl, and some wayward wildlife are the stars of The Sea of Tranquility, a play set across many centuries of New Jersey’s folkloric history and performed in the grand rooms of Rutherfurd Hall. When the audience steps through the doors, we all become ghosts in a place where day and night, springtime and autumn, the 1940s and the 1490s all happen at once. A cast of musicians, dancers and theater-makers use antique modes of storytelling, such as the newspaper column, the radio drama, the illustrated scientific lecture and yes, theater, to unveil tales from obtuse angles. The Sea of Tranquility is a play where walls have ears, panthers speak their minds, and young women defy gravity to take us beyond the stratosphere and dance softly upon the surface of the moon.

Violence, Visual Culture and the Black Male Body: A Lecture by Cassandra Jackson, April 7, 2011, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ

Cassandra Jackson received her PhD in English from Emory University in 2000. Her research and teaching interests are in American literature with emphasis on African-American literature. Her book Barriers Between Us: Interracial Sex in Nineteenth-Century American Literature was published by Indiana University Press in 2004. Her second book, Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body was published by Routledge in 2010.

Hank Willis Thomas: Artist Talk, March 21, 2011, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ

Hank Willis Thomas is a photo conceptual artist working primarily with themes related to identity, history and popular culture. He received his BFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and his MFA in photography, along with an MA in visual criticism, from California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco. Thomas has acted as a visiting professor at CCA and in the MFA programs at Maryland Institute College of Art and ICP/Bard. His work has been featured in many publications including Reflections in Black (Norton, 2000) 25 under 25: Up-and-Coming American Photographers (CDS, 2003), 30 Americans (RFC, 2008). Thomas’ monograph, Pitch Blackness, was published by Aperture in 2008. He received a new media fellowship through the Tribeca Film Institute and was an artist in residence at John Hopkins University. He has exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the U.S. and abroad. Recent exhibitions include Dress Codes: The International Center for Photography’s Triennial of Photography and Video, Greater New York at P.S. 1/MoMa, Contact Toronto Photography Festival and Houston Fotofest. Thomas is currently a fellow at the W.E.B. DuBois Institute at Harvard University. Thomas is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery in New York City.

Willie Cole: Artist Talk, November 18, 2010, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ

Born in 1955, Willie Cole is well known for his ability to transform ordinary objects into powerful works of art. He is represented by Alexander and Bonin in New York. He has exhibited extensively and is also the recipient of many awards including the Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial Fellowship, the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant and the Penny McCall Foundation Grant. Additionally, his work is included in many museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

Impact of Public Art: A Panel Discussion featuring Kim Babon and Sara Reisman, November 9, 2010, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ

Two guest speakers with experience in the study, commission and response to public art shared their perspectives.

Kim Babon is an assistant professor of sociology and anthropology at Elon University. Her research explores how context—the location of public art—is central to understanding reactions to it. She received a PhD in sociology from the University of Chicago in 2007. Her dissertation, “Location, Location, Location: Reception, Context, and Controversy Over Sculpture in Urban Spaces,” examined how certain public sculptures inspire intense debate while others, created by the same set of artists, do not.

Sara Reisman is the director of Percent for Art at the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Since the 1980s, Percent for Art has commissioned more than 220 artworks for schools, courthouses, parks and other civic sites throughout New York City. Much of Reisman’s curatorial work focuses on connecting a wider public with contemporary art. She has also curated public art installations for Socrates Sculpture Park and the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, among other venues.

TCNJ Art Alumni Panel Discussion, September 30, 2010, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ

Concurrent with the TCNJ Art Alumni Exhibition 2010, Sarah Cunningham coordinated a panel discussion featuring four TCNJ Art alumnae:

Elisa Hirvonen, Art Education, '90, studied art at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and Parsons in New York City as well as TCNJ. She has been teaching in public schools in Hopewell and Princeton for the past ten years and privately for twice as long.

Laura (Fyock) Nolan, Graphic Design, '91, is experienced in all aspects of graphic design and art direction including print and digital media. She has held the position of Creative Director at two different companies, leading design teams in various assignments. She continues to pursue freelance design projects to further enhance her abilities. Laura’s specialties include collateral design, packaging, websites, brand identity, advertising/marketing campaigns, catalogs and publications.

Avani (Patel) Palkhiwala, Fine Arts and Computer Science, '01, earned her Masters from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) in 2007. While at ITP, Avani discovered a passion for combining art and electronics. Her first professional website project, RutgerScience, was honored with a Webby Award. Avani currently works as consultant for a variety of companies, with a focus on the creation and delivery of educational content and game production for the web.

Debbie Reichard, Fine Art, '92, is a sculptor and ceramic artist who has taught ceramics and sculpture at Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, The University of Southern Maine, University of Colorado, and The University of Washington, Seattle. Her work has been included in group and solo exhibitions, including the Jersey City Museum, Dallas International airport, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ; and the Newark Museum of Art, NJ. Recent commissions include an outdoor sculpture for Community North Hospital, Indianapolis, and Buckingham Winery, PA.

Homespun Exhibit Curator's Talk by Dustin London, March 17, 2010, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ

According to curator Dustin London, "The artists in this exhibition give us a deeply internal look at a private world, where a fascination with the mundane triggers a transformative experience. The familiar, through intense examination, becomes curious, even bizarre. Subjects such as interior spaces, household objects, and figures inform themes ranging from intimacy and personal/family histories to power structures and issues of absence and loss. One of the strongest threads tying these artists is their interest in the tactility of painting. Touch is paramount and we are invited into a personal space where subjects are close at hand. This proximity results in the pervasive sense of intimacy in these works and enhances our familiarity with their subject matter. It becomes disarming and perverse when our expectations are then subverted by disconcerting narratives or distortions of form and space. These alter our understanding of a subject and amplify the psychological impact of many of these works. These artists represent a grass-roots trend in painting and other creative endeavors, which indicate not just an aesthetic inclination, but also a philosophical reaction. There is a do-it-yourself attitude with a homemade aesthetic and a preference for the handmade over the polished, the earnestly raw to the overproduced. There is an importance placed on the introspective experience of the individual." (image by Martin McMurray)

Inherited Traits Artist Talk with Nina Katchadourian & Heidi Kumao, January 27, 2010, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ

The Inherited Traits exhibit explored heredity through the work of two important contemporary artists, Nina Katchadourian and Heidi Kumao. In their work, both artists investigate the cause and effect of relationships, the manner in which family ties are created and maintained, and how personal identity is shaped in the context of history. This exhibit looked beyond a strictly biological interpretation of inheritance to consider not only genetic determination, but also historical, sociological and cultural influences. In three very different pieces, Katchadourian uses a combination of pointed humor and everyday forms of familial representation to both “[play] on the fantasies of lineage and heritage” and probe her personal connections with her mother and father. While Kumao’s work is not overtly based in personal experience, she explores kinship, creative birthrights, intrinsic strengths and history’s impact on the individual in her intricate video installations.

Distortions: Artist Talk with Gilberto Esparza, Marcela Armas, Gerardo García de la Garza, Iván Abreu, Ale de la Puente, and Iván Puig , October 28, 2010, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ

Curated by Karla Jasso and Ricardo Miranda Zuniga, the Distortions: New Media Art from Mexico exhibit featured mixed media work by Gilberto Esparza (image to left), Marcela Armas, Gerardo García de la Garza, Iván Abreu, Ale de la Puente, and Iván Puig. This exhibit compeled audiences to consider the ways in which the artworks’ particular places of creation, integration of technologies high and low, and political reflections merge to create a unique artistic vision that portrays Mexico today. (image by Gilberto Esparza)

Hetty Joyce: Renaissance Families, Holy and Otherwise, October 14, 2010, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ

Hetty Joyce, Assistant Professor of Art History (Part-time), joined the faculty of TCNJ in 1998. She received the B.A. in Classics from Reed College, the M.A. in Classical Archaeology from the University of California, Berkeley, and the Ph.D. in Fine Arts from Harvard University. Her research interest is Roman decorative arts and their influence from the early modern period to the present. She has published many articles and reviews in academic journals (The Art Bulletin, Journal of Roman Archaeology, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes), participated in academic conferences(College Art Association, American Academy in Rome), and contributed essays to scholarly publications (Art History in the Age of Bellori: Scholarship and Cultural Politics in Seventeenth-Century Rome,Cambridge University Press). She is currently working on a study of the discovery and influence of ancient paintings in the contexts of antiquarian and scientific inquiry, collecting, graphic reproduction and publication, patronage, and aesthetic theory.

Anxious Ground Panel Discussion with Stefan Abrams and Justin James Reed, March 4, 2009, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ

In association with The College of New Jersey Art Gallery exhibition, Anxious Ground: Contemporary Landscape Photography, artists Stefan Abrams and Justin James Reed (image to left) discussed their own photographic work and the topic of the exhibition. Facilitated by Anita Allyn.

Artist Talk with Wendell Brooks hosted by Dr. Marcia Taylor, February 3, 2009, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ

Now retired, Brooks taught at TCNJ for more than 36 years. He holds an MFA in Printmaking from Indiana University. His prints are in the permanent collection at the Library of Congress, the National Collection of Fine Arts at the Smithsonian Institution, and the Macedonian Center of Contemporary Art (Greece) and he has exhibited his work internationally. He served on several committees of New Jersey's State Council of the Arts. Brooks’ work is inspired by explorations in self-discovery, as well as cultural diversity. He lives in Trenton, NJ.

An Atlas Artist/Curators Talk featuring Lize Mogel, Alexis Bhagat and Rosten Woo, November 11, 2008, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ

An Atlas exhibition featuted “radical cartography” and related political filmmaking. Radical cartography, a cultural movement that cuts across boundaries of art, geography, and activism, is a practice that uses maps and mapping to promote social change. The participating artists, architects, and collectives who created the maps and diagrams for An Atlas play with cartographic convention—geographic shapes, wayfinding symbols, and aerial views—in order to take on issues from globalization to garbage. While mapping in art practice has expanded to into technological and performative realms, An Atlas focused on a traditional aspect of the map as a work-on-paper, as well as its function as activist tool and political agent.

Robert Boyd: Artist Talk, March 18, 2008, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ

Originally a sculptor, Robert Boyd is an interdisciplinary installation artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. His work often explores the volatile intersection of politics and religion, examining its precarious influence over popular culture. His 4-channel video installation Xanadu, was shown at Sundance last month. It originally premiered at Participant, Inc in New York in 2006 and has been exhibited at PKM Gallery, Beijing, China, 2006; The Hospital, London, England, 2006; and Context Galleries, Derry, Ireland, 2007. He was awarded a Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant in 2006 and an Artists Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2004.

Parable of the Garden Curators' Talk with Leeza Ahmady, Sarah Cunningham and Deborah Hutton, February 20, 2008, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ

Geographically focusing on former Persia and its cultural legacy, the Parable of the Garden exhibit presented recent media works by artists from Iran and Central Asia. The exhibit thematically explored not only the traditional garden and the contemporary sense of place, but also notions of paradise lost and found, lessons learned and forgotten, and traditions cherished and rejected. The show featured works by ten artists or collaborative teams hailing from Afghanistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan. Two of the artists now live in Europe, but the rest remain in Central Asia, and all engage in the cultural dialogue of place and identity. The media in which they work include digital photography, video, installation, and graphic design.

Between Heaven and Earth Juror's Talk with Eleanor Heartney, January 30, 2008, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ

Eleanor Heartney is the author of the books, Postmodern Heretics: The Catholic Imagination in Contemporary Art and Critical Condition: American Culture at the Crossroads. She is a New York-based art writer and cultural critic who has written extensively on contemporary art for such publications as Art in America, ARTnews, The New York Times, The Washington Post and The New Art Examiner. She also received the College Art Association's Frank Jewett Mather Award for distinction in art criticism and is the president of the US section of the International Association of Art Critics.

Oksana Cheplyk: Artist Talk, November 14, 2007, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ

From the Ukraine, Oksana Chepelyk will discuss and show her sculptural fashion designs, performance documentation and films. Her provocative artwork probes into the nature of totalitarianism and complexities resulting from the reunion of the former eastern and western Europe. She deals with the interrelation of the real, social and virtual spaces and is especially interested in co-experience, focusing on cultural transformations.

Shelly Silver: Artist Talk, September 19, 2007, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ

Shelly Silver is a New York based artist utilizing video, film and photography. Her work spans a wide range of subject matter and genres and explores the personal and societal relations that connect and restrict us; the indirect routes of pleasure and desire; the stories that are told about us and the stories we construct about ourselves.

Dress Code Artists' Talk featuring Elke Lehmann, Jillian Macdonald and Momoyo Torimitsu, March 21, 2007, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ

To complement the Dress Code exhibition, a panel discussion featuring all three artists Elke Lehmann, Jillian Mcdonald and Momoyo Torimitsu was moderated by Liselot van der Heijden who curated the exhibit. Dress Code was an exhibition of works that emphasizes the role of clothes on a social and emotional level.

Elke Lehmann Re-bagged: First Collection (imaged to left)
Lehman shops at mega-brand stores to select materials for her clothing/packaging hybrids. She then inserts each shopping bag into the garment it contained to create a new wearable item.

Jillian Mcdonald Seams
In a downtown Manhattan storefront, one year after September 11, 2001, Mcdonald invited passersby to lend a piece of clothing for the exhibit. After interviewing the lenders about their fears and anxieties, Mcdonald embroidered personal protection messages into the seams of the clothing.

Momoyo Torimitsu Miyata Jiro
In her public performances, Torimitsu cares for a life-sized crawling robot of a stereotypical businessman. Documentation of both public and media response from cities around the world will be on display.

Between the Sheets Art Talk featuring Ann Kalmbach of Women's Studio Workshop, October 2006, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ

Ann Kalmbach, Executive Director and co-founder of WSW, has an MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology and a BFA from SUNY New Paltz. Ann has produced a number of artists' books with her long-time collaborator, Tatana Kellner, under the acronym KaKe Art. She has also been a resident artist at Visual Studies Workshop, University of Southern Maine, and the MacDowell Colony. As a co-founder of WSW, Ann has helped hundreds of artists print portfolio editions and artists' books over the years.

1998-2001, Bi-Monthly Artist Brunches & Artists Teas, Albany Center Galleries, Albany, NY

For each exhibit at Albany Center Galleries, Sarah Cunningham hosted a brunch or tea with a facilitated discussion with the exhibiting artist(s). Artists included: Kathleen Heike Triem, Allen Grindle, Deborah Zlotsky, Roberta Griffith, Sergio Sericolo and Terry Slade.

Empire State Partnerships Summer Seminar, July 1998, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY

Sarah Cunningham coordinated, the 2nd Annual ESP Summer Seminar, an intensive, weeklong residential retreat held annually for 350+ participants, including school-based practitioners and administrators, teaching artists and cultural administrators. The retreat provided dedicated planning time, access to ESP faculty made up of nationally renowned Arts and Education consultants, intensive study of performance assessment, integrated curriculum strategies and partnership strengthening techniques. Featured faculty included: Eric Booth, David O'Fallon, Greg McCaslin and Deb Brozka.

Mierle Laderman Ukeles: Artist Talk, October 1997, Common Ground Conference, Palisades, NY

Born in 1939 in Denver, Colorado, Mierle Laderman Ukeles is “madly in love” with the public domain and public culture and as a result nearly all of her work takes place in the public sphere. Since 1977, when she became the official, unsalaried Artist In Residence at the New York City Department of Sanitation – a position she still holds – Ukeles has created art that deals with the endless maintenance and service work that “keeps the city alive,” urban waste flows, recycling, and ecology. Since the late 1980s, much of Ukeles’ work has focused on transforming closed landfills into urban parks, as the “Percent for Art Artist” of Fresh Kills Park in Staten Island, New York, once the largest municipal landfill in the world, at Danehy Park in Cambridge, and the Ayalon Park in Israel.

Ukeles works in a variety of mediums, creating installations, performances, and audio and video works. She has completed six “work ballets,” involving workers, trucks, barges and hundreds of tons of recyclables in places such as New York, Pittsburgh, France, Holland, and Japan. Recent work has been exhibited at P.S. 1/MOMA, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Bronx Museum of Arts; the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; the Tel Aviv Museum; the Sharjah Biennial; UAE; and the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco. Awards presented to the artist include multiple grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim, the Foundation for Jewish Culture, Andy Warhol, Joan Mitchell, and Anonymous Was a Woman Foundations among others. Her most recent teaching position was in Sculpture at Yale University. She is represented by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts in NYC.

Common Ground Conference, October 1997, IBM Palisades Conference Center, Palisades, NY

Sarah Cunningham coordinated, CommonGround, the annual New York State arts-in-education conference that brings over 150 administrators, teachers, teaching artists, and community members together for three days of policy setting, planning, exchange of skills and inspirational speakers. This gathering contributes to fresh curriculum design, school reform and new models for classroom learning.

Fred Wilson: Artist Talk, Empire State Partnerships Summer Seminar, July 1997, Rochester, NY

Fred Wilson was born in the Bronx, New York in 1954, and lives and works in New York. He received a BFA from SUNY/Purchase. In his groundbreaking intervention, “Mining the Museum” (1992), Wilson transformed the Baltimore Historical Society’s collection to highlight the history of slavery in America. For the 2003 Venice Biennale, Wilson created a mixed-media installation of many parts, focusing on Africans in Venice and issues and representations of black and white, which included a suite of black glass sculptures; a black-and-white tiled room with wall graffiti culled from texts of African-American slave narratives; and a video installation of Othello screened backwards. Wilson received a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Achievement Award (1999) and the Larry Aldrich Foundation Award (2003). He is the Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Object, Exhibition, and Knowledge at Skidmore College. Fred Wilson represented the United States at the Biennial Cairo (1992) and Venice Biennale.

Empire State Partnerships Summer Seminar, July 1997, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY

Sarah Cunningham coordinated, the 1st Annual ESP Summer Seminar, an intensive, 12-day residential retreat held annually for 350+ participants, including school-based practitioners and administrators, teaching artists and cultural administrators. The retreat provided dedicated planning time, access to ESP faculty made up of nationally renowned Arts and Education consultants, intensive study of performance assessment, integrated curriculum strategies and partnership strengthening techniques. Featured faculty included: Eric Booth, David O'Fallon, Greg McCaslin and Deb Brozka.

Common Ground Conference, October 1996, Corning, NY

bell hooks: Lecture, February 1993, Matrilineage Symposium, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

bell hooks is the author of numerous critically acclaimed and influential books on the politics of race, gender, class, and culture. Celebrated as one of our nation’s leading public intellectuals by The Atlantic Monthly, as well as one of Utne Reader’s “100 Visionaries Who Could Change Your Life,” she is a charismatic speaker who divides her time among teaching, writing, and lecturing around the world. Her first book, Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (South End Press, 1981), which she began when she was 19, was named one of the “twenty most influential women’s books of the last twenty years” by Publishers Weekly in 1992. A prolific writer, hooks has published many other books with South End Press, including Feminist Theory, Black Looks, Yearning, Talking Back, and Breaking Bread (with Cornel West). A frequent lecturer in the United States and abroad, her most recent books from South End Press include Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics and Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery (Updated Edition), and Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism with Amalia Mesa-Bains.

Coco Fusco, February 1993, Matrilineage Symposium, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Coco Fusco is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist, writer and Chair of the Fine Art Department at Parsons/The New School for Design. She has performed, lectured, exhibited and curated around the world since 1988. She is a recipient of a 2003 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. Fusco's performances and videos have been included in such events as the Sydney Biennale, The Johannesburg Biennial, The Kwangju Biennale, The Shanghai Biennale, InSite O5, Transmediale, The London International Theatre Festival, VideoBrasil and Performa05. She is the author of English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas (1995) and The Bodies that Were Not Ours and Other Writings (2001), and A Field Guide for Female Interrogators (2008). She is also the editor of Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas (1999) and Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self (2003). Fusco’s work combine electronic media and performance in a variety of formats, from staged multi-media performances incorporating large scale projections and closed circuit television to live performances streamed to the internet that invite audiences to chart the course of action through chat interaction. Her most recent work deals with the role of female interrogators in the War on Terror. Those works include Operation Atropos (a film about interrogation training), and A Room of One's Own (a monologue about female interrogators). These works were selected for the 2008 Whitney Biennial.

Eve Andrée Laramée: Artist Talk, February 1993, Matrilineage Symposium, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Eve Andrée Laramée has been exploring the mutable, triadic relationship between art, science and nature for over twenty years. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and in Europe, including exhibitions in New York, England, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, France, Israel, Poland, China and the Czech Republic. Her work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, MassMOCA, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston among other institutions. She has received awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Museum, the Andy Warhol Foundation, MacDowell Colony, among others. Laramee is Professor of Interdisciplinary Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Previously, she has taught sculpture, installation and critical theory at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Rhode Island School of Design, Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, and Fairfield University. She lives in Brooklyn, NY; Baltimore, MD; and Santa Fe, NM. (photo by Kyle Blevins)

Cathy Cook: Artist Talk, February 1993, Matrilianeage Symposium, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Cathy Cook is an Associate Professor of Film/Video in Visual Arts at University of Maryland at Baltimore County (UMBC.) She teaches Film/Video production, writing and aesthetics. She holds a MFA in Film/Video and Women Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee as well as BFA’s in both Inter-Arts and Art. Prior to UMBC, Cook worked in New York City for eleven years as an Art Director and Production Designer in the Film/TV industry. She has taught film/video production and animation at various New York area colleges. Cook has exhibited her award-winning work extensively in both solo and group shows including screenings at MOMA and the Whitney Museum. In 2001, Cook was awarded a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. She has also received fellowships and grants from the New York State Council of the Arts, The Experimental Television Center, The Jerome Foundation (Film in the Cities) and the Wisconsin Arts Board. Cook’s media works are in the permanent collections of the Donnell Library (NYC), Princeton University, National Library of Australia (Canberra) and the NYU Film Library, among others. In pursuing her personal research, Cook works in Film, Video, Poetry Films and Installation and is currently editing a thirty minute experimental documentary film that explores her responses to the poetry and life of Lorine Niedecker

Daphne Spain: Lecture, February 1993, Matrilineage Symposium, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Professor Daphne Spain is James M. Page Professor in the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning. Her scholarship addresses the relationship between the built environment and social structure, with an emphasis on gender. A long-term research interest is the way in which groups of women change the urban environment. She is currently working on a project titled "Constructive Feminism: Women’s Rights and the City" in which she explores how the 1970s Women’s Movement changed the city in pursuit of women’s rights. Ms. Spain has published articles in the leading journals in the planning and urban fields. Her books include Gendered Spaces (UNC Press, 1992) and Balancing Act: Motherhood, Marriage and Employment among American Women (with Suzanne Bianchi, Russell Sage Foundation, 1996). Her most recent book, How Women Saved the City (University of Minnesota Press, 2001), explores the importance of redemptive places built by women volunteers at the turn of the 20th century. Professor Spain has received research grants from the Russell Sage Foundation and The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Her work has been featured on the PBS documentary, The First Measured Century, and on the Jim Lehrer NewsHour. Ms. Spain is a member of the Society for American Regional and Planning History Governing Board, and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Planning Association and the Journal of Urban Affairs.

Eunice Lipton: Lecture, February 1993, Matrilineage Symposium, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Eunice Lipton studied history and literature at City College and became a historian of French art. She received her Ph. D. at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts. The conflicts between her working-class, immigrant Jewish origins and her elite ambitions and attraction to the world of high art pulled her in unruly and unexpected directions. For example, she wrote about art but focused on labor and women. In Looking Into Degas, it was Degas’s laundresses, milliners and prostitutes that attracted her. In Alias Olympia, she imagined the life of an artist’s model, Victorine Meurent, who astonishingly—and against the grain of the French class system—became a painter herself. This book, a startling mix of fiction, art history and autobiography, received international acclaim and led to numerous television, film and radio appearances. In her early 40s, Lipton married the artist Ken Aptekar who inspired her to write more and teach less. Soon after, she left a teaching career of twenty-three years, giving up tenure, not to mention a lucrative pension.

Esther Parada: Artist Talk, February 1993, Matrilineage Symposium, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Esther Parada was born in 1938 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She is an artist, writer, and educator whose work frequently involves the political, historical, and social relations between the US and Latin America. She earned a BA in art history, history, and literature from Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania (1960); an MFA in painting and drawing from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn (1962); and an MS in photography from the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology (1971). Her mid-1960s Peace Corps assignment was teaching art and photography at the Escuela de Artes Plasticas, Universidad de San Francisco Xavier, in Sucre, Bolivia. She came to Chicago on her return in 1967. Parada has been part of the School of Art & Design faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago since 1972. Her work has been exhibited at Gallery 312, Chicago; George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, New York; Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Centre National de la Photographie, Palais Tokyo, Paris, France; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; and California Museum of Photography, Riverside, California. Her multiple-frame works “Past Recovery” (1979) and “Memory Warp” (1980) layer images and text related to family history, and are represented in the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. In 1980 Parada was an artist-in-residence in Mexico City with the Mexican Council of Photography. She is also a two-time National Endowment for the Arts recipient (1982 and 1988) and an SPE Honored Educator (1994). She has used digital technology since 1986. Esther Parada died on October 19, 2005 in Chicago.

Trinh T. Minh-ha: Artist Talk, February 1993, Matrilineage Symposium, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Trinh T. Minh-ha teaches in the Gender and Women's Studies Department at the University of California at Berkeley since 1994 and in the Department of Rhetoric since 1997. She has also taught at Harvard, Smith, Cornell, San Francisco State University, the University of Illinois, Ochanomizu University in Japan and the National Conservatory of Music in Senegal. Originally trained as a musical composer, who received her two Masters and Ph.D. from University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Trinh T. Minh-ha is a world-renowned independent filmmaker and feminist, post-colonial theorist. She teaches courses that focuses on women's work as related to cultural politics, post-coloniality, contemporary critical theory and the arts. The seminars she offers focus on Third cinema, film theory and aesthetics, the voice in cinema, the autobiographical voice, critical theory and research, cultural politics and feminist theory. Aside from the eight books she has published, her work also includes two large-scale multimedia installations and six feature-length films that have been honored in twenty seven retrospectives around the world: Reassemblage (1982), Naked Spaces (1985), Surname Viet Given Name Nam (1989), Shoot for the Contents (1991), A Tale of Love (1996), The Fourth Dimension (2001), and Night Passage (2004) . She is currently at work on a large-scale audio-visual installation for the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris.

Marilyn Minter: Artist Talk, February 1993, Matrilineage Symposium, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Born in 1948 in Shreveport, Louisiana, Marilyn Minter lives and works in New York City. In 1970 she received a bachelor's degree in fine art from the University of Florida and in 1972 a master degree in fine art from Syracuse University. In recent years she has had solo exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2005) and Salon 94 (2006, 2009). Minter’s paintings were included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial along with billboards in Chelsea that coincided with the Biennial. In 2007, Pamela Anderson became her muse for the centerfold of the Swiss art magazine Parkett. Upcoming projects include: in September, an exhibition at the Zaha Hadid–designed Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati as well as at the newly opened contemporary art space La Conservera in Murcia, Spain. These exhibitions will include large-scale projections of Green Pink Caviar. In October, Minter’s work will be presented in a solo exhibition at Regen Projects II, which will include a room of paintings of Pamela Anderson in conjunction with a public art project of Green Pink Caviar organized by ForYourArt in collaboration with Regen Projects.

Jolene Rickard: Artist Talk, February 1993, Matrilinege Symposium, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Jolene Rickard is an associate professor at Cornell University where she is currently the interim chair of the Art Department and has a joint appointment within the History of Art and Visual Culture Department and the American Indian Program at Cornell. Theoretically engaged in issues relevant to post to neo coloniality, Rickard is an artist, curator and historian concentrating on the aesthetic practice of Indigenous peoples within a global context. Rickard is on the board of the New York State Historical Association, and a member of the College Art Association, Native Art Association and the Society for Photographic Educators. She is also a founding board member of the Otsego Institute of Native American Art History. Her photographic installations have been exhibited at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau; Barbican Center, London; Joseph Gross Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson; Ansel Adams Center For Photography, San Francisco; Houston Center for Photography; C.E.P.A, Buffalo; Light Works, Syracuse; Exit Art, New York City and many more. Rickard has been funded by the Ford Foundation to conduct research on the feasibility of an international journal dedicated to issues of Indigenous aesthetic and theoretical practice. She has convened roundtables throughout North American, Taiwan, New Zealand and Australia. Dedicated in the process of collaboration, Rickard co-curated two of the four permanent exhibitions for the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (2004) and co-curated Across Borders: Beadwork In Iroquois Life (1999-2002), which travelled to the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), New York City; Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto; Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau; Castillani Art Museum, Lewiston, New York, and the McCord Museum, Montreal.

Barbara Zucker: Artist Talk, February 1993, Matrilineage Symposium, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Barbara Zucker was born in Philadelphia. She received an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and an MA from Hunter College in Sculpture. Zucker and Susan Williams were the co-founders of A.I.R. Gallery, the first women's art gallery in the United States. With Dotty Attie and Mary Grigoriadis, two early members, they sought out the twenty artists who joined the A.I.R. collective and gallery. A.I.R. opened its doors in 1972 at 97 Wooster Street in New York City. Thirty-five years later, the gallery still thrives. Zucker has gone on to exhibit, teach, write and lecture. She has written essays on Florine Stettheimer, Ree Morton, Ann Sperry, Leigh Burton and Wendy Hirschberg, and has contributed articles and reviews to many journals and magazines. Her work has been exhibited at such venues as Robert Miller Gallery, Artists Space, Sculpture Center, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Tufts University, and the Museum of Arts and Design. She has been reviewed in such publications as: The New York Times, Art in America, Artforum and Art News. She has taught at Princeton, Yale, The University of the Arts (Philadelphia), the Vermont Studio Center, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. Zucker chaired the Art Department at the University of Vermont in Burlington from 1979 - 1985, and taught there until 2001. She is now a Professor Emerita, and divides her time between Vermont and New York.

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