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Glassell Lecture | Steffani Jemison

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Tue. Apr. 14, 2026 6 PM-7 PM
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Location Glassell School of Art

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Glassell Lecture | Steffani Jemison

Date & Time

Tue. Apr. 14, 2026 6 PM-7 PM
This event has passed

Location Glassell School of Art

Parking at Glassell Garage
Drop-off/Valet at Kinder Building
Drawing from past, present, and future work, interdisciplinary artist Steffani Jemison considers such questions as: How are ideas contagious? How are we infected by one another? How do we grapple with the radical unboundedness of ourselves? How does that unboundedness extend temporally into the past and the future, stretching toward both the dead and the unborn? How does it extend horizontally to places and people we will never see? In what circumstances, with what kinds of support, does this unboundedness enable us to act together alongside or with others? How might we understand that togetherness as a place in which one’s sense of self as irreducibly singular can be temporarily suspended or put on hold, and how this “putting on hold” might be described in another way as “allowing ourselves to be held”? 
 
The presentation includes selections from Jemison's novella A Rock, A River, A Street and refers to the exhibitions and performances clear skies, troubled water (Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, 2025); Cynosure (Centre Pompidou and Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, 2026), and Flight Theater (2024–ongoing).

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About the Artist
Steffani Jemison is an interdisciplinary artist and writer in Brooklyn, New York. Solo exhibitions of her work have been presented by the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut; Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Jeu de Paume, Paris; and Mass MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Creative Capital Award from the Andy Warhol Foundation, Jemison is associate professor of art & design at Rutgers University. Her work is included in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; Baltimore Museum of Art; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York; Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Kunstmuseum den Haag, The Hague; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Serralves Museum, Porto; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others. 

Call for Questions 713-639-7500

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