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Conversation: Alison Saar and Sarah Lewis

11/04/12
02:00pm - 03:30pm
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Conversation: Alison Saar and Sarah Lewis
Free with reservation

Alison Saar in conversation with curator/writer Sarah Lewis about art, race, and gender. In conjunction with Alison Saar exhibition STILL . . . in the Ben Maltz Gallery. (Reg # 35450, Free, Non-credit)

Organized in partnership with Otis Continuing Education. Reservations are required. To register, or for more information, please contact otisce@otis.edu, call 310-665-6850, or visit www.otis.edu/ce.

Scholar, writer, and curator Sarah Lewis is currently finishing her book, RISE, a book that draws on her work in the arts and expands into sports, business, psychology, sociology, and science. Selected for Oprah’s 2010 “Power List,” and included as a member of President Obama’s Arts Policy Committee, her writing has been published widely. Her Yale dissertation on Frederick Douglass, The Circassian Beauties and American Racial Formation, is now under contract with Harvard University Press (2014 release). She has been an active curator, holding positions at both the Tate Modern and the Museum of Modern Art. She was also selected to be the Co-Curator of the 2010 SITE Santa Fe Biennial. She is currently curating the art for the Barclays Center while finishing her manuscripts. Sarah sits on the boards of the Harvard University Alumni Association, the CUNY Graduate Center, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the Brearley School, and she is on the Art Advisory Committee of Madison Square Park. She received a B.A. from Harvard University, magna cum laude, an M.Phil. from Oxford University with Distinction as a British Marshall Scholar, and will receive a Ph.D. from Yale University in 2012. She is a faculty member at Yale's School of Art M.F.A. program.

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