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Sound Stories

(Art of the Interview)

In VART 2222 Art of the Interview, students record interviews with elders who recount the history of the Lincoln Square neighborhood, which was demolished in the 1950’s to build Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Fordham College at Lincoln Center, and other developments.

On Saturday December 14th, the Fall 2024 class presented artworks highlighting various stories at Good Shepherd Faith Presbyterian Church, where many interviewees are members:

Ash Wang created this animated collage video highlighting a story from an interview with Ronald Woods.

Good Shepherd-Faith Presbyterian Church, by the way, is the last standing church to predate the Lincoln Center urban renewal project that demolished the rest of the neighborhood, and has a rich civil rights history.

Meena Kabbani and Bhavika Yendapalli created this piece from this interview with Michael Nelson, Harold Thomas, Debra Washington and Ronald Woods.

Eric Bishop features another Ronald Woods interview in this piece

Video by Morgan Mueller and Tanvi Shah, featuring a story told by Michael Nelson, Harold Thomas, Ronald Woods and Debra Washington

Here is Junhan Zhao’s video featuring stories told by Ronald Woods, Michael Nelson and Debra Washington.

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Loops & Loops

(Intro to Art & Engagement: Protest, Participation, the Public & Other Performance Practices)

A very temporary installation

Monday December 16, 2024 | 2-3pm  
Butler Gallery | Fordham College at Lincoln Center | 113 West 60th Street New York

Through a workshop with beck haberstroh and Mira Dayal, authors of Camera of Possibilities: A Workbook Towards a Carrier Bag Theory of Photography, students taking VART 1111 “Intro to Art & Engagement” were asked to think about the ways that text can serve as an invitation for engagement. They considered how invitations might serve as an incentive for someone to join in, and indicate who is invited to participate, how they participate, and what they can expect when they do. At Loops & Loops, our very temporary installation, students used simple prompts to invite the public into challenging and abstract conversations.

Film photos by Suchi Jalavancha:

Elizabeth Weldon offered hushweh she made from a recipe by her sithu and napkins with questions about food and culture for tasters.
It was a very social event

Artworks by VART 1111 students Suchi Jalavancha, Isis Poulose, Shamia Rahman, Veni Rosales, Michelle Rosas Garcia, Pradanya Subramanyan, Elizabeth Weldon and Janson Zheng.

Presented by the Department of Theatre & Visual Arts. Special thanks to Nikki Estelami, Materials for the Arts, and Fordham’s Center for Community Engaged Learning.

Zine by Suchi Jalavancha

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Chester Higgins – The Intimacy of Prayer

CHESTER HIGGINS

THE INTIMACY OF PRAYER

The Fordham University Galleries
Ildiko Butler Gallery
November 25, 2024 – January 17, 2025
 Fordham University at Lincoln Center map
113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue
New York, NY 10023
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The Visual Arts Program at Fordham University and the Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs are please to present The Intimacy of Prayer, an exhibition of Chester Higgins’ photographs of various forms of devotion taken across the Untied States, Africa, and the MENA region.

Photographer and author Chester Higgins was born in Alabama in 1946 and was formally educated at Tuskegee University, graduating in 1970.  Experiences with his family’s church community, as well as with college campus student protest, were formative in developing the direction of Higgins’s artistic practice.  Higgins’s oeuvre portrays the dignity of the African American and African diasporic communities, and this work has brought Higgins all over the world, and to Africa in particular, many times.  Higgins worked as a staff photographer for The New York Times from 1975 until 2014, and is the author of several publications, including Black Woman (1970); Drums of Life (1974); Feeling the Spirit: Searching the World for the People of Africa (1994); Elder Grace: The Nobility of Aging (2000); and Echo of the Spirit: A Photographer’s Journey (2004). 

Higgins’s work has been the subject of many international exhibitions and is held in notable collections, such as The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, and The Brooklyn Museum of Art.  Higgins lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

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Professor Pix #2: Close-Up: 11/14, 6 pm

Professor Pix Film #2: Close-Up, 1990 Directed Abbas Kiarostami
November 14, 2024, 6 pm
Lincoln Center Campus Visual Arts Complex Film Screening Room SL24L
Open to everyone. Pizza is served at 6, and the film screening starts shortly after
Film discussion moderated by Professor Fadi Skeiker, Professor Ashar Foley, and Professor Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock
Sponsored by the LC Dean’s Office and Professor Connections funding

“Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years, and Close-up is his most radical, brilliant work. This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves. With its universal themes and fascinating narrative knots, Close-up has resonated with viewers around the world.” —Criterion

What is Professor Pix? Each season, we ask professors in the Visual Arts Department and special guests to present significant films to the Fordham community. At screenings, we enjoy pizza together, watch a movie, and then discuss it afterward. So, step outside your regular streaming queue, experience something different, and join our community of merry cinephiles throughout the semester. It’s called Professor Pix, and it’s fun—so bring your friends!

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Art of the Interview (an Art & Engagement class)

VART 2222 has new attributes coming: History, American Studies, Theater Production and Design, Urban Studies (and it still has New Media Digital Design and Community Engaged Learning attributes).

Please note we changed the name of the course from “Archival Reenactments” to “Art of the Interview.”