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Events: Art Lecture Series

Each semester the Student Art Alliance invites artists, historians, critics and curators to give presentations on their work or on current issues in contemporary culture. The Art Lecture Series (formerly Visiting Artist Lecture Series) offers unique opportunities to explore and discuss contemporary creative practices. More than 200 internationally recognized artists and designers representing the range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary interests of the region have participated to date.

This series has become the flagship of the Student Art Alliance, an entirely student-run organization that for years has supported and enhanced opportunities for campus community members to view fine art and gain insights into the process of working art professionals.

The lecture series is funded by the SUNY New Paltz Student Association and administered by the Student Art Alliance. For additional information email artlectures@newpaltz.edu.

Fall 2023 lectures:

John Vásquez-Mejías

Print Maker, John Vasquez Mejias is a visual artist and high school art teacher. He lives in the Bronx USA.

His performance art series The Puerto Rican War exists as a costume/puppet performance based on the book. Featuring marionettes, masks, costumes, and hand puppets. It tells the story of Puerto Rican revolutionaries fighting American colonialism in 1950. It has been performed in such places as Essex Flowers (NYC art gallery), Market Hotel (as part of Comic Arts Brooklyn), Wayfarers Gallery (NYC), and Sarah Lawrence College amongst others.

The artist will be covering his background/art influences, approach to printmaking and storytelling DIY, self-publishing, art business practices, and an overview of his past and recent art endeavors.

Date
Time
Location

September 27

11 am

LC 100

Amanda ba

Amanda Ba is a painter who lives and works in New York City. She was born in Columbus, Ohio, but spent the first five years of her life with her grandparents in Hefei, China. Her work is catalyzed by her interest in critical race and queer theory, which help to situate her identity within more nuanced frameworks of posthumanism, Otherness, and diasporic memory.

The artist will be covering her background/art influences, and an overview of her past and recent art endeavors.
 
Please use this LINK to sign up for a studio visit with the artist after the lecture.
Date
Time
Location

October 18

11am

LC 104

Roxanne Jackson

“Roxanne Jackson’s ceramic works vibrate between the playful and the menacing. They abandon the dainty, feminized associations of craft for something more feral and alive, exploiting clay’s malleability to create something wholly sui generis: beastly creatures whose beauty and monstrosity emerge in equal measure, mutating the shape of beauty itself.” Max Lakin, Excerpt from Design Miami press release, Room 57 Gallery

Date
Time
Location

November 1

11am

LC 104

Ivana Bašić

Ivana Bašić was born in 1986 in Belgrade, Serbia. The artist completed her M.P.S. at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, in 2012. In her work, Bašić addresses the vulnerability and transformation of the body and human matter. By using different materials in the work (such as wax, glass, steel, alabaster, oil paint) and combining these with technique and immaterial matters (such as breath, pressure and rigidity), the sculptures acquire a post­human quality. The colors she chooses refer strongly to the human body. Pink, white and natural combinations are reminiscent of blood, bone and flesh.

The artist will be covering her creative process, background, art influences, finding inspiration, the importance of experimentation and an overview of her past and recent works.
 
Please use this LINK to sign up for a studio visit with the artist after the lecture.
Date
Time
Location

November 8

11am

LC 104

Lecture Recordings

Spring 2023

Fall 2022