Marc Lepson, Macushla Robinson, and Darrel Alejandro Holnes will be giving a lecture, “Framing Displacement: Ways of Seeing, Ways of Being” hosted by Sarah A. Lichtmann and Jill Traganou on Thursday, October 24th, 2024 at 6 pm in the Alumni Reading Room.
About the event:
This event gathers a collection of scholarly and creative voices–spanning photography, film, curation, and poetry–to consider the spatial, material and performative experience of displacement and border-crossing, while imagining new possibilities. The presenters are contributors to the book Design, Displacement, Migration (Routledge 2023) edited by Sarah A. Lichtman and Jilly Traganou.
About the Speakers:
Marc Lepson began his work as artist and Master Printer at the Lower East Side Printshop. Lepson’s work first came to national attention as part of the activist group, ad hoc artists, staging public performances (Our Grief is not a Cry for War) in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks in Lower Manhattan. In the decade that followed, his strident political prints and evocative installations were shown at Miyako Yoshinaga gallery NY, The Brooklyn Museum and the Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna. Lepson has received a Pollock-Krasner Grant and his work has appeared in Art on Paper, and Art in America. He teaches at Parsons School of Design, is co-curator of the online exhibition series Fermata 3×3, and is a founding member of the Anarchist Review of Books collective.
Macushla Robinson is director of the Anya & Andrew Shiva Gallery, CUNY. With a background in museums, she received her doctorate in Politics in 2023. She is the founder of Interstitial Press, and has published widely in exhibition catalogues, book chapters and journal articles.
Darrel Alejandro Holnes is an Afro-Panamanian American writer. He received the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize from Letras Latinas, the Drinking Gourd Poetry Prize, International Latino Book Award, Juan Felipe Herrera Best Poetry Book Award, and a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Creative Writing (Poetry). His books include Stepmotherland and Mig
About the Hosts:
Jilly Traganou is a Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at Parsons School of Design, and affiliated faculty with the Doctorate in Public and Urban Policy at the Schools of Public Engagement, and the Department of Politics at the New School for Social Research. She is co-editor-in-chief of Design and Culture.
Sarah A. Lichtman is Chair of the department of History of Art and Design, Pratt Institute, and managing editor of the Journal of Design History.
Please RSVP by October 18th if you are interested in attending.
* This event is for Pratt community.