Rice University Spring 2022 Visiting Artist Lecture Series is co-sponsored by the Center for African and African American Studies and the Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts, with support from the Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning.
Silas Munro
Thursday, Feb. 17 at 7:00 PM
Rice Cinema, Sewall Hall #301
Event registration HERE
Silas Munro is a partner at Polymode Studio based out of Inglewood, California.
“Polymode is a studio that leads the edge of contemporary graphic design through poetic research, learning experiences, and making cool shit for clients in the cultural sphere, innovative businesses, and community-based organizations.
Our specialties include books, curation, education, exhibition, identities, interfaces, publications, visual design, websites, workshops, and writing. We operate between the complexity of designed systems and lived experience—our core principles of visual expression, media adaptability, and typographic function.
As a bi-coastal, LGBTQ+, and Minority-owned studio with offices in Inglewood, California, and Raleigh, North Carolina, Polymode ignites change to create social and sustainable impact. We operate with the ethos of Studio as family.”
Rice University Spring 2022 Visiting Artist Lecture Series is co-sponsored by the Center for African and African American Studies and the Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts, with support from the Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning.
francine j. harris
Monday, Feb. 28 at 7:00 PM
Rice Cinema, Sewall Hall #301
Event registration HERE
francine j. harris is a poet, writer and educator. harris is also an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Houston. She holds an M.F.A. from University of Michigan and a B.A. in English from Arizona State University. She is the author of the poetry collections “Play Dead”, “allegiance” and ”Here is the Sweet Hand.” Harris has taught at Centre College, University of Michigan, and Washington University in St. Louis. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Cave Canem, and MacDowell Colony. She was the 2018/2019 Rona Jaffe Foundation Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. Her work has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, Lambda Literary Award and an Audre Lorde Award.
Rice University Spring 2022 Visiting Artist Lecture Series is co-sponsored by the Center for African and African American Studies and the Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts, with support from the Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning, and the Creative Writing concentration within the English department.
Leslie Hewitt
Monday, March 28 at 7:00 PM
Rice Cinema, Sewall Hall #301
Event registration HERE
Leslie Hewitt’s approach to photography and sculpture reimagines the
art historical still life genre from a post-minimalist perspective.
Her geometric compositions, which she frames and crystallizes through
the disciplines of photography and film theory, respectively, are
spare assemblages of ordinary effects and materials, suggesting the
porosity between intimate and sociopolitical histories. Interested in
the mechanisms behind the construction of meaning and memory, she
decisively challenges both by unfolding manifestly formal, rather than
didactic, connections. Her distinct play on syncopation and
juxtaposition make her work discursive and densely layered. Hewitt
further works with site-specific installation, autonomous sculptures,
drawings and the moving image as modalities to contend equally with
shifting notions of space and time. Hewitt has held residencies at the
Studio Museum in Harlem, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Project Row
Houses, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard
University, Konstepidemin in Göteborg, Sweden and the American Academy
in Berlin, Germany amongst others.
Rice University Spring 2022 Visiting Artist Lecture Series is co-sponsored by the Center for African and African American Studies and the Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts, with support from the Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning.
Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki Olivo)
Monday, April 18 at 7:00 PM
Rice Cinema, Sewall Hall #301
Event registration: HERE
Warning, nudity and sexual content.
Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki Olivo) is a conceptual, performance and installation artist. Her work often draws on the emotional resonance of found objects and shared experiences, exploring love, mortality, power relations and states of being. Much of her recent work directly reflects her experiences transitioning and integrates the redistribution of financial support and exhibition opportunities from the art world to her community of Trans/GNC/2S + POC
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Rice University Spring 2022 Visiting Artist Lecture Series is co-sponsored by the Center for African and African American Studies and the Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts, with support from the Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning.
