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April 15, 6:30-7:30pm EST via Zoom
Topic: Artist Talk: Maya Ciarrocchi
Time: Apr 15, 2021 06:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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ABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS
Maya Ciarrocchi’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and she has received residencies and fellowships from the Baryshnikov Arts Center, Bronx Museum of the Arts (AIM), LABA: A Laboratory for Jewish Culture, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, MacDowell, Millay Colony, UCross and Wave Hill. She received a Film/Video Grant from The Jerome Foundation and funding from the Bay and Paul Foundation, Franklin Furnace Fund, MAP Fund, and the Mertz Gilmore Foundation. In addition to her studio practice, Ciarrocchi has created award winning projection design for dance and theater including the TONY award winning Broadway musical The Band's Visit. Ciarrocchi is the recipient of a 2021 grant from the Trust for Mutual Understanding and a 2020 BRIO Award from the Bronx Council on the Arts. Ciarrocchi earned an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, and a BFA from SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY.
Monika Fabijanska is an art historian and curator specializing in women’s and feminist art. She curated critically acclaimed ecofeminism(s) at Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, 2020 (essay, public programs), and the groundbreaking The Un-Heroic Act: Representations of Rape in Contemporary Women’s Art in the U.S., Shiva Gallery, John Jay College, New York, 2018 (catalog, symposium), which was ranked the fifth best NYC art show in 2018 by Hyperallergic. Fabijanska provided the initiative and consulting for The Museum of Modern Art acquisition and retrospective exhibition of Polish feminist sculptor Alina Szapocznikow (2012). She is a member of College Art Association’s Committee on Women in the Arts, 2021-2024.