Interdisciplinary artist Fazlalizadeh will present Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture April 24
calendar icon10 Apr 2024
Lincoln, Neb.—Interdisciplinary artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh will present the next Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar lecture on Wednesday, April 24 at 5:30 p.m. in Richards Hall Rm. 15. The lecture is free and open to the public.
During her visit, Fazlalizadeh will also engage in a sanctioned street art activation on April 25-26 in Lincoln.
The School of Art, Art History & Design’s Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture Series brings notable artists, scholars and designers to Nebraska each semester to enhance the education of students.
Fazlalizadeh is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist working primarily in painting, public art and multimedia installation.
She is from Oklahoma City and was born to a Black mother and Iranian Father. Fazlalizadeh, whose social practice is rooted in Black feminist praxis, considers image-making as a site of protest, contestation, affirmation and possibility. She makes site-specific work that considers how people, particularly women and Black folks, experience race and gender within their surrounding physical environments.
Fazlalizadeh is the creator of “Stop Telling Women to Smile,” an international series that tackles gender-based street harassment by centering intersectionality in public art and is the author of “Stop Telling Women to Smile: Stories of Street Harassment and How We’re Taking Back Our Power.”
In recent work, Fazlalizadeh finds interest in the interiority of the lives of racialized and sexualized people. Here, she sees her social practice as an opportunity to not only publicly reflect the experiences of others, but as a space for emotional connection through shared space, conversation and experience.
Fazlalizadeh has lectured about her work and methodology at institutions such as The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, as well as several schools, including Brown, Pratt, Stanford and The New School.
Fazlalizadeh has been profiled by The New York Times, NPR, the New Yorker and Time Magazine. She is a Forbes Under 30 lister, a Mellon Foundation Fellow and in 2018, she became the inaugural Public Artist in Residence for the New York City Commission on Human Rights.
Underwritten by the Hixson-Lied Endowment with additional support from other sources, the Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist series enriches the culture of the state by providing a way for Nebraskans to interact with luminaries in the fields of art, art history and design. Each visiting artist or scholar spends one to three days on campus to meet with classes, participate in critiques and give demonstrations.
Fazlalizadeh's visit is also made possible with support from the Nebraska Arts Council, Covocations Committee Funds, UNL Symposia Speaker Funds, The Chancellor's Committee on the Status of People of Color/Women, UNL Women's and Gender Studies, and OASIS with programming support from the CARE office.
For more information on the series, contact the School of Art, Art History & Design at (402) 472-5522 or e-mail schoolaahd@unl.edu.