erika dalya massaquoi
Erika Dalya Massaquoi is the Assistant Dean of the School of Art & Design at The Fashion Institute of Technology. She has taught classes on contemporary art, cinema, music, and emerging technologies at Yale University, New York University, and The New School for Social Research. As a curator, her work has been exhibited at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) List Visual Arts Center, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Spelman College Museum of Fine Arts. Additionally, she has held curatorial positions at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the American Museum of the Moving Image. Erika received her Ph.D. from New York University and undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Chicago. She serves on the Board of Directors of The Feminist Press.
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Saga Sig is a math/art creative who identifies flow in color, texture, patterns—her Icelandic roots and mystical stories from her childhood about ghosts and elves inform her work. Saga’s goal is “to look further and explore: new cameras, new processes in the darkroom. Always remain open-minded and employ technology.”
EXHIBITING ETHNICITIES: THE COMPLEXITIES INHERENT IN RACE AS SUBJECT MATTER
I recently presented my research on the topic above at Konsthall C: http://www.konsthallc.se/
This is the urban street style bible. I invited Jamel Shabazz to present and speak about his work to our Art & Design students at FIT this spring. Shabazz has been described as “the best kind of photojournalist: one driven by curiosity about other human beings.”
For the past five years, community driven art interventions in Brazil have led to dynamic favela paintings. This hillside project, which spans over 34 houses and includes the local samba school, is located in Santa Marta.
