The New Social Environment#959
Drawing as Practice
Featuring Sara Reisman and Christina Yang, with Sallie Fullerton
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Curator Sara Reisman joins scholar Christina Yang for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Sallie Fullerton.
In this talk
Sara Reisman
Curator, writer and educator with over 20 years of experience in the field, Sara Reisman is currently the Chief Curator at the National Academy of Design in New York City. Previous roles include Executive and Artistic Director for the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation and Director of New York City’s Percent for Art program. She has curated exhibitions for Hugh Lane Dublin City Gallery, the Queens Museum, the Philadelphia ICA, and LaMaMa Galleria, among other venues. She’s been awarded residencies by Art Omi, the Foundation for a Civil Society, Artis, CEC Artslink, Futura, and the Montello Foundation. She has also taught art history within SVA’s Curatorial Practice Masters program since 2016, and contemporary art at Bezalel since 2022.
Christina Yang
Christina Yang is an independent curator, writer, and scholar based in New York and Williamstown. She specializes in experimental genres, spectatorship, politics of the image, and feminist care. She has been a curator at The Kitchen, Queens and Guggenheim Museums, as well at Williams College and UC Berkeley. She is a Ph.D candidate in performance studies at NYU and is teaching in SVA’s Masters Program in Curatorial Practice in fall 2024. She is participating in Asia Art Archive in America’s 2024 Leadership Camp led by Simon Wu and Daniel Chew. Her recent essay “Hung Liu: Seeing and Unknowing” on the Chinese-born appeared in 2024 (RYANLEE).
The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we’re fortunate to have Sallie Fullerton reading.
Sallie Fullerton
Sallie Fullerton is a poet and writer living in Brooklyn. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, their work has appeared in Bennington Review, Prairie Schooner, Literary Hub, Frontier Poetry, and Pathetic Literature edited by Eileen Myles (Grove Press, 2022).
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