EVENTS

Wednesday, November 2, 12:00 – 4:00pm | Día de Muertos | Flatiron North Plaza, East 23rd Street & Broadway

SVA Continuing Education and Flatiron Nomad Partnership present a celebration of Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead), a Mexican tradition of pre-Hispanic origin that celebrates the memory and presence of the deceased. According to popular belief, from Monday, October 31, through Wednesday, November 2, souls return home to be with their loved ones. Altars are assembled with offerings, food and rituals to celebrate their visit. This free public event will include live performances and DIY activities.

Wednesday, November 2, 7:00 – 8:30pm | MA Curatorial Practice Distinguished Global Curator Lecture: Kate Fowle | Online

Curator Kate Fowle will discuss what it means to be “artist-centered.” Initially trained as an artist, Fowle has conceptually put artists at the heart of creating new infrastructures and reinventing established nonprofits through leadership or curatorial roles at a wide range of institutions, including Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing; Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow; the MA in Curatorial Practice at CCA in San Francisco; Independent Curators International; and, most recently, MoMA PS1. And yet, the most complex questions remain pragmatic: how a curator or cultural institution can be truly and rigorously artist-centered.

Friday, November 4, 6:00 – 7:30pm | Community Lecture Series: Art Therapy and Palliative Care | Online

MPS Art Therapy presents a lecture on palliative care, a rapidly growing field of medicine that is particularly well-suited for collaboration with art therapists. In this virtual presentation, practicing palliative care physician, assistant professor and director of community outreach and education at New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Ian Kwok, MD, will explore case examples from existing programs combining art therapy and palliative medicine, as well as outline opportunities for clinical and/or research partnerships. There will also be an opportunity to explore and ask questions about conducting art therapy research in medical settings.

Tuesday, November 8, 6:30 – 8:00pm | Manuel DeLanda |214 East 21st Street, 1st floor

MFA Photography, Video and Related Media presents cross-disciplinary theorist, artist and SVA alumnus Manuel DeLanda (1979 Fine Arts) to discuss his work. This talk will be accompanied by a screening of DeLanda’s recent video and film work.

Tuesday, November 8, 7:00 – 8:30pm | i3 Photo Lecture: Rahim Fortune |136 West 21st Street

A talk with Rahim Fortune (b.1994), who uses photography to ask fundamental questions about American identity, presented by MPS Digital Photography as part of its i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration lecture series. Focusing on the narratives of individual families and communities, he explores shifting geographies of migration and resettlement and how these histories are written on the landscapes of Texas and the American South.

Thursday, November 10, 6:30 – 8:00pm | Frances Fox Piven On the Midterms | Online

BFA Visual & Critical Studies and the SVA Honors Program present Frances Fox Piven—sociologist, activist, one of the “nine most dangerous people in the world” (Glenn Beck) and author of the definitive analyses of social movements and the barriers to voting in the United States—to analyze the 2022 midterm elections.

Features

New additions of MPS Digital Photography’s i3: lectures, the Masters series and a new BFA Photography and Video exhibition featuring work by students and alumni fill out the month’s calendar at the School of Visual Arts