ARTSpeak is a project created at the Fashion Institute of Technology – it’s intended to foster a conversation about the constant interplay between art and life. ARTSpeak consists of a number of different forums, including, but not limited to: A lecture series featuring distinguished artists […]
ARTSpeak Lecture: Artist Yashua Klos
Artist Yashua Klos speaks on Tuesday, September 13th, 2022, 3-4:30pm, in the Katie Murphy Amphitheatre, 27th Street and 7th Avenue. In his multi-media practice, Yashua Klos explores themes of identity, memory, and African Americans’ relationship to American labor, His large-scale works are created from the […]
ARTSpeak Lecture: Doron Langberg
Artist Doron Langberg speaks about his work in the Katie Murphy Amphitheatre, 27th Street and 7th Avenue, on Wednesday, May 4th, 2022, 3-4:30pm. Doron Langberg’s vibrantly colored, sensual paintings celebrate queer pleasure, friendship, and intimacy. The artist blurs distinctions between abstraction and figuration, subject and […]
ARTSpeak Lecture: Artist and Historian Nell Painter
On Wednesday, April 7th 2021, 5-6:30pm, artist and historian Nell Painter talks about her work virtually. Nell Painter is a distinguished and award-winning scholar, historian, writer and visual artist. Author of seven books, her most recent, Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over […]
ARTSpeak Lecture: Artist Derick Melander
On Wednesday, March 11th 2020, 5-6:30pm, artist Derick Melander talks about his work in the Katie Murphy Amphitheatre in FIT’s Pomerantz Center, 27th Street and 7th Avenue. Derick Melander creates artwork that examines the intersection between global consumerism and the intimate connection we have with […]
ARTSpeak Lecture: Artist Naudline Pierre in Conversation with Curator Legacy Russell
Artist Naudline Pierre converses with Curator Legacy Russell, Tuesday, March 3, 5:00 – 6:30 pm, in the Katie Murphy Amphitheatre. The central subject of Naudline Pierre’s paintings serves as an alter-ego, an unearthly representation rendered in a spectrum of colors. As the artist has stated about […]