Holly Bass: Root Work

Please join us for an artist lecture and conversation with Holly Bass on Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from 6:30-8:00pm at the historic Beaux Arts Flagg Building!

Holly Bass is a multidisciplinary performance and visual artist, writer, and choreographer. Her work explores the unspoken and invisible social codes surrounding gender, class, and race. She received a 2024 Washington Award from the S&R Evermay Foundation. She is a 2022 MAP Fund recipient, a 2020–2022 Live Feed Resident Artist at New York Live Arts and a 2021–22 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow. She studied modern dance (under Viola Farber) and creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College before earning her Master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Her work is in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. She has performed at the Seattle Art Museum, Art Basel Miami Beach (Project Miami Fair), and the 2022 Venice Biennale as part of Simone Leigh's Loophole of Retreat. Her visual artwork includes photography, installation, video, and performance. A Cave Canem Fellow, she has published poems in numerous journals and anthologies. She directed a year-round creative writing and performance program for adjudicated youth in DC’s Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services for four years and for six years was the National Director for Turnaround Arts at the Kennedy Center, a program which increases equitable access to the arts in Title 1 elementary and middle schools as a catalyst for fostering belonging.

This talk is a part of the Studio Arts and Design Research + Practice lecture and conversation series, occurring on Wednesdays. Dates for the Research + Practice series are listed below.

* All events will be Wednesday nights, 6:30pm-8:00pm in Hammer Auditorium.*

1/29/2025: Andrea Dietz

2/26/2025: Hiedi Boisvert

3/5/2025: Larry Cook

3/19/2025: Kara Braciale

4/2/2025: Holly Bass

We look forward to seeing you!

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Flagg Building, Corcoran School for the Arts and Design, George Washington University, Please use New York Avenue Door, 500 17th Street Northwest, Washington, United States