PARSONS FINE ARTS

Moderator: Tara Asgar, Artist & Activist, Bangladesh Panel Description: This panel explores the growing trend of artists fleeing their home countries for safety and freedom…

Emily Johnson is an artist who makes body-based work. Emily belongs to the Yup’ik Nation, is a land and water protector and an organizer for…

Joy Episalla is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist whose work repositions photography and the moving image into the territory of sculpture. Engaging a queer/feminist perspective they…

Hannah Levy was born in 1991 in New York City, New York, where she currently lives and works. The artist received a BFA from Cornell…

Anna Martine Whitehead does performance from the homelands of the Council of the Three Fires: The Odawa, Ojibwe and Potawatomi Nations; as well as the Miami,…

Morgan Bassichis is a comedian, writer, and musician who has been called “a tall child, or, well, a big bird” by The Nation and “fiercely hilarious” by The New…

As poetic as it is political and biographical, Emily Jacir’s work investigates silenced histories, exchange, translation, transformation, and resistance. Jacir has built a complex and compelling…

*Abigail DeVille will be conducting studio visits with MFA students, but will not be giving a lecture * Abigail DeVille (b. 1981) is an artist…

Sarah Faux (b. 1986, Boston, MA, lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) makes paintings that embrace unabashed sensuality, autonomy and pleasure. Faux’s fluid compositions teeter…

New Red Order (NRO) is a public secret society facilitated by core contributors Jackson Polys, Adam Khalil, and Zack Khalil. Polys is a multi-disciplinary artist…

Rose B. Simpson(b. 1983, Santa Clara Pueblo, NM)has anMFA from Rhode Island School of Designand an MA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American…

Born in Kathmandu, Nepal, in 1968, Tsherin Sherpa currently lives and works between California and Nepal. From the age of 13, he was trained in…

Azza El Siddique (b. Khartoum, Sudan) is known for her room-sized sculptural environments made of welded steel that take up the related themes of entropy,…