D-Crit Studio Sessions with Niela Orr, Ismail Muhammad, Jennifer Krasinski

Join us in the department with writers Niela Orr, Ismail Muhammad, Jennifer Krasinski, and faculty member Jennifer Kabat in conversation.

Doors at 6 p.m.

Program at 6:30 p.m.

Reception to follow.

Jennifer Krasinski is a writer and cultural critic who contributes to 4Columns, Bookforum, the New York Review of Books, and other publications. Her essays have been published in numerous books and catalogs including Reza Abdoh, Jill Johnston: The Disintegration of a Critic, and Hilton Als's Andy Warhol: The Series. She was an art columnist for the Village Voice from 2014 to 2018, and served as both senior editor at Artforum and later as the magazine’s digital editorial director. She taught at Art Center College of Design, New York University, Yale University, and is currently teaching in the MFA Art program at Lesley University. She is the recipient of an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant (2012), a Rauschenberg residency, and is a 2023–24 MacDowell fellow.

Ismail Muhammad is a story editor at the New York Times Magazine, where he helps cover culture. As a writer, he has written profiles of figures like the artist Mark Bradford and the essayist Maggie Nelson, as well as essays about black cultural histories. His work has appeared in the Magazine, The Atlantic, Slate, The Nation, The Paris Review, and other venues. 

Niela Orr is a writer and editor. Her criticism has appeared in The Believer, the London Review of Books, and The Paris Review, among other places.

Jennifer Kabat’s The Eighth Moon on a 1840s socialist uprising in her town was published by Milkweed Editions in Spring 2024. Half of a diptych, the second volume Nightshining will come out in 2025. Her work has been supported by numerous grants including a Silvers Foundation Grant and a Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for her criticism. Her essays have appeared in BOMB, Granta, Frieze, McSweeney’s, The Believer, Virginia Quarterly Review, LARB, New York Review, 4 Columns and the White Review and been anthologized in Best American Essays. She often collaborates with artists and contributes to museum catalogues. An apprentice herbalist, she lives in rural upstate New York and serves on her volunteer fire department. She teaches Research & Writing I & II in the MA Design Research, Writing and Criticism at the School of Visual Arts.

Event Venue

SVA MA Design Research, Writing and Criticism, Second floor, 136 W 21st St, New York, United States