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Women Making History
Join us for two inspirational Speaker Series this Women’s History Month.
We are thrilled to present lauded art critic and curator Helen Molesworth and Feminist scholar and human rights advocate Dr. Shuchi Karim. These distinguished speakers will share their insights, experiences, and contributions, inspiring our community to celebrate the remarkable impact they are making in their respective fields. Join us as we come together to honor the resilience, creativity, and leadership of women in shaping the world we live in today.
March 22, 2024: Dr. Shuchi Karim
Student Talk: 12:00-1:00pm
MCA 544
Faculty Talk: 3:00pm-4:00pm
MCA 550
March 27, 2024
7:00pm-9:30pm
Book Signing and Public Talk
March 22: Dr. Shuchi Karim
As an alum of the Scholar’s at Risk placement program, Dr. Karim will explore the significance of her experience and research in supporting displaced artists and scholars.
With over 20 years of experience in interdisciplinary teaching and research for policy development in gender, development, sexual and reproductive health and rights, education, women and youth, displacement and diaspora in South Asia, Dr. Karim is the Project Director of Placement, Preservation and Perseverance: Afghan At-Risk Scholars, Activists and Students and is Adjunct Faculty at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University.
March 27: Helen Molesworth
In this exclusive event, join OCAD Professor & Acting Dean Charles Reeve in conversation with writer, curator, and podcaster Helen Molesworth on her new book, Open Questions: Thirty Years of Writing about Art (Phaidon). Over the past three decades, Molesworth’s singular voice and lively curatorial vision has established her as one of the most dynamic and influential voices in the art world. Open Questions, the first ever collection of her writings, presents 24 essays from the past 30 years, gathered from exhibition catalogs and art publications such as Artforum, Documents, frieze, and October. In this wide-ranging conversation, Molesworth and Reeve will explore art’s unique capacity for merging knowledge and feeling, reflections on Molesworth’s past writing, and new ways of viewing and thinking about contemporary art.
About Helen: Helen Molesworth is a writer, curator, and podcaster based in Los Angeles. Her major monographic exhibitions include Ruth Asawa, Moyra Davey, Noah Davis, Steve Locke, Kerry James Marshall, Josiah McElheny, Catherine Opie, Amy Sillman, and Luc Tuymans. Molesworth, a prolific and award-winning author, is the recipient a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Clark Art Writing Prize, and the Bard Center for Curatorial Studies Award for Curatorial Excellence. Her podcast Death of an Artist made numerous “Best of 2022” lists. The first ever collection of her writings, Open Questions: Thirty Years of Writing about Art, is available now from Phaidon.
7:00pm-9:30
Book Signing and Public Talk
RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-helen-molesworth-and-charles-reeve-tickets-848742972077