{"id":499,"date":"2021-06-14T13:06:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T20:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/?p=499"},"modified":"2021-06-14T13:06:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T20:06:02","slug":"steffani-jemison-wednesday-january-13th-2016-1130-100-pm-in-the-2nd-floor-recital-hall-in-the-com-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/steffani-jemison-wednesday-january-13th-2016-1130-100-pm-in-the-2nd-floor-recital-hall-in-the-com-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Steffani Jemison: Wednesday, January 13th, 2016 11:30-1:00 pm in the 2nd floor Recital Hall in the COM Building"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/269\/2021\/06\/Steffani-Jemision-300x168-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-501\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.steffanijemison.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Steffani Jemison<\/a>&nbsp;was born in Berkeley, California, and is currently based in Brooklyn, New York. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2009) and a BA in Comparative Literature from Columbia University (2003). Jemison uses time-based, photographic, and discursive platforms to examine \u201cprogress\u201d and its alternatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jemison\u2019s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including the Brooklyn Museum; the Drawing Center; LAXART; the New Museum; the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art; the Studio Museum in Harlem; Laurel Gitlen; Team Gallery; and other venues. Her publishing project, Future Plan and Program, commissions literary work by artists of color and has published books by Martine Syms, Jibade-Khalil Huffman, and Harold Mendez, among others. She has participated in artist residencies at Smack Mellon, Brooklyn; the International Studio and Curatorial Program, Brooklyn; Project Row Houses, Houston; the Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine; and the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. Jemison has served as a visiting critic in the graduate art programs at Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Illinois-Chicago. She was a 2013 Tiffany Foundation Biennial Awardee and a 2014 Art Matters Grantee. In 2015, she presented her new multipart commission Promise Machine at the Museum of Modern Art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jemison is currently an artist-in-residence in the Sharpe-Walentas Space Program. She teaches at Parsons The New School for Design, the Cooper Union, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/YdK4gSKxqLg\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steffani Jemison&nbsp;was born in Berkeley, California, and is currently based in Brooklyn, New York. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2009) and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9192,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[86,8],"tags":[3,6,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}