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Thinking Big: Visions for the Future of Native Artists in Public Art. Top, left to right: Elizabeth James-Perry, Bruce Curliss, Jenny Oliver, and Robert Peters. Bottom, left to right: Courtney M. Leonard, Tahnee Ahtoneharjo Growingthunder, Jonathan James-Perry, and Nia Holley.
Erin Genia (SMACT ’19) | Centering Justice: Indigenous Artists’ Perspectives on Public Art
Event
Greg Garvey, Remembrance 9-11, 2020.
Greg Garvey (CAVS Fellow) creates interactive online elegy to the victims of Sept. 11
Exhibition
Rasa Smite & Raitis Smits, Atmospheric Forest (2020), VR / 360-video.
Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits’ Atmospheric Forest
Exhibition
Suneil Sanzgiri, Stills from Letter From Your Far-Off Country, 16mm to 2k video, 2020, 17 mins.
Suneil Sanzgiri’s (SMACT ’17) ‘Letter From Your Far-Off Country’ at 58th New York Film Festival
Event
Rakowitz’s parasite sculptures, custom-built to house homeless people in American cities, were inspired by Bedouin tents. Photograph by Paul D’Amato for The New Yorker
Michael Rakowitz’s (SMVisS ’98) Art of Return – New Yorker Profile
Press
Sketch of Carehaus Baltimore by Rafi Segal, 2020
Marisa Morán Jahn | Carehaus
Announcement
Erin Genia, “You are on Native Land,” digital montage (2019). Courtesy of the artist.
‘400 years later – an Indigenous artist’s perspective’ by Erin Genia (SMACT ’19)
PressPublication
Pelin Tan. Image courtesy of the artist.
Pelin Tan | New and Recent Projects
Announcement
Azra Akšamija, Design for Sanctuary. ©Aga Khan Museum, 2020. Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid.
Azra Akšamija’s Design for Sanctuary
Exhibition
Maryanne Amacher
Maryanne Amacher’s Petra
Press
Hello World, presented by the TransCultural Exchange
Hello World, An Art Affair Around the Globe
Event
Throwback | Architectures of Finance from the Great Depression to the Subprime Meltdown
Exhibition
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