Join the Asian American Studies Program for a poetry reading and talk with Samuel Lo (Department of Art) to celebrate his MFA thesis exhibition.
“Waypoints” is the title of Samuel Lo’s MFA thesis exhibition. We welcome everyone to a poetry reading by MFA candidate Samuel Lo of the Department of Art and discussion with the audience guided by Professor Gina Osterloh (Department of Art), Professor Joe Ponce (Department of English and Program Director of Asian American Studies) and artist and Ph.D. candidate Iyana Hill (Department of Arts Administration Education and Policy).
Professor Osterloh will include a brief introduction to historical and contemporary intersections between art making, Asian American Studies and Mixed-Race Studies. Through steadfast presence and sincerity, as well as deadpan humor, Samuel Lo’s photography and art address complex experiences of belonging, perception, community, visibility/invisibility and legibility. His art contributes to the vast community of multiracial Asian American artists today. His artistic strategies include combining performances for the camera, vernacular everyday photographs of friends and family in Hong Kong, Maryland, Ohio and Hawaii. His photographs also depict the Milky Way galaxy, photographs of oceans and rivers, in tandem with photographs of his body submerged in water from geographical locations that are "waypoints"—ancestral and chosen family sites that are guides and waypoints in his life.
The reading will be followed by a reception at 5pm. Refreshments and light hors d’oeuvres will be served.
Co-sponsored by the Asian American Studies Program, the Department of Art, Urban Arts Space and the Humanities Institute.
This event is free, open to the public and welcoming to everyone.
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