Press release for "Alison Saar: STILL"

              (Page 2 / Otis College to Present Alison Saar: STILL…, Aug 18 – Nov 17, 2012)
Events in Conjunction with the Exhibition:
Public Reception: Saturday, September 15, 4-6pm, Free
Meet Alison Saar and enjoy live music by Sunny War
Otis Alumni Gallery & Studio Tour: Saturday, September 22,
10am-4pm, $25 with reservation
Otis Alumna Alison Saar tours her exhibition STILL . . . in the Ben Maltz
Gallery followed by lunch and a bus tour to local Otis alumni studios and
galleries. (Reg # 35449, $25 Non-credit)*
Conversation: Sunday, November 4, 2pm, Free with
reservation
Alison Saar in conversation with Sarah Lewis about art, race,
and gender. (Reg # 35450, Free non-credit)*
Scholar, writer, and curator Sarah Lewis is currently finishing
her book, RISE, a book that draws on her work in the arts and
expands into sports, business, psychology, sociology, and
science. Selected for Oprah’s 2010 “Power List,” and included as a member of President Obama’s
Arts Policy Committee, her writing has been published widely. Her Yale dissertation on Frederick
Douglass, The Circassian Beauties and American Racial Formation, is now under contract with
Harvard University Press (2014 release). She has been an active curator, holding positions at both the
Tate Modern and the Museum of Modern Art. She was also selected to be the Co-Curator of the 2010
SITE Santa Fe Biennial. She is currently curating the art for the Barclays Center while finishing her
manuscripts. Sarah sits on the boards of the Harvard University Alumni Association, the CUNY
Graduate Center, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the Brearley School, and she is
on the Art Advisory Committee of Madison Square Park. She received a B.A. from Harvard
University, magna cum laude, an M.Phil. from Oxford University with Distinction as a British
Marshall Scholar, and will receive a Ph.D. from Yale University in 2012. She is on faculty at Yale
University, School of Art in the M.F.A. program.
* The bus tour and conversation are organized in partnership with Otis Continuing Education.
Reservations for these two programs are required. To register, or for more information, please contact
otisce@otis.edu, call 310-665-6850, or visit www.otis.edu/ce.
Poetry Reading and closing reception: Saturday, November 17,
2pm-5pm, Free
Author Harryette Mullen reads her poetry at a closing reception for the
exhibition Alison Saar: STILL
Harryette Mullen is the author of several poetry collections, including
Recyclopedia: Trimmings, S*PeRM**K*T, and Muse & Drudge, winner of
a PEN Beyond Margins Award, and Sleeping with the Dictionary, a finalist
for a National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Los
Angeles Times Book Prize. Her poems have been translated into Spanish,
Portuguese, French, Italian, Polish, German, Swedish, Danish, Turkish, and
Bulgarian. She teaches American poetry, African American literature, and creative writing at UCLA.
A collection of her essays and interviews, The Cracks Between What We Are and What We Are
Supposed to Be, is due from University of Alabama Press in 2012. Her Tanka Diary is forthcoming
from Graywolf Press in 2013.
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