Virtual Viewpoint with Ainaz Alipour | Dec 3 @ 6:00 PM | Tickets

Join artist Ainaz Alipour as she explores her artistic practice through a visual lecture. Alipour’s multi-media installation work Slap-eaters is included in the group exhibition Skyway 2024: A Contemporary Collaboration, where visitors can interact with her video work surrounded by soft sculpture. Alipour uses new technologies, such as Virtual Reality, to explore the intricacies of transcultural identity and the untranslatable elements between cultures.

This Virtual Viewpoint Lecture is free, registration required.

About Ainaz Alipour

Ainaz Alipour is an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker, driven by a deep sense of social consciousness. As a creator and storyteller, her work traverses diverse mediums and disciplines. Having lived both in Iran and the United States, she's discovered a unique in-between state of existence - a constant interplay between two worlds, never fully arriving or entirely leaving. Her works have earned her recognition and awards and have been showcased in esteemed international film festivals like AIFVF, SWIFF, and Life Off Film Sessions. She has lived and worked in the US since 2019.

Virtual Viewpoint with Saumitra Chandratreya | Dec 16 @ 1:00 PM |  Tickets

Join artist Saumitra Chandratreya as he explores his artistic practice through a visual lecture. Works from Chandratreya’s Urban Sanctuary series of cyanotypes are included in the group exhibition Skyway 2024: A Contemporary Collaboration, and this talk will discuss the artist’s practice holistically.

This Virtual Viewpoint Lecture is free, registration required.

About Saumitra Chandratreya

Born in Mumbai, Saumitra Chandratreya is a visual artist who lives in Chicago, IL, and St. Petersburg, FL. He graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), IL, in 2017 with a Master of Design in Fashion, Body, and Garment. He has a BFA in Textile Design from the Srishti Institute of Art, Design, and Technology in Bengaluru, India. Chandratreya was awarded an Individual Artist Grant from St. Petersburg Arts Alliance in 2020, an Emerging Artist Grant from Creative Pinellas in 2018, and he was an emerging artist at the 2019 Gasparilla Festival of Arts in Tampa, FL. He exhibited at the Union League Club of Chicago as a finalist for Luminarts Cultural Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship. Chandratreya was awarded the Shapiro Graduate research fellowship at SAIC and was nominated by his department for the James Nelson Raymond Fellowship. His works are collected internationally, and his art has been written about extensively in local media. He has taught at the Morean Arts Center and the Pruitt Arts Education Center on the ArtsXchange campus in St. Petersburg, FL. Chandratreya is an active member of the 24-Hands Printmaking collective and Florida Printmakers Society. He is a 2023-24 full-time Visiting Artist at SAIC.

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