UCAE x PS122 ART ED SALON, What We Teach

UCAE x PS122 ART ED SALON is an open-table discussion series revolving around different issues in art education today. The series will include four in-person meetings held at PS122 Gallery, located at 150 First Avenue, New York NY 10009. Each of the sessions will be introduced by a leading figure in art education and administration, working in a wide range of academic levels and institutions. Sessions will start with a short prompt and will continue as an open conversation between all participating educators, artists, and administrators.

The series is open to all via RSVP, space is limited to 15 participants.

Session 2: November 12, 2021, 6:30-8pm

PS122 Gallery, 150 First Avenue, New York NY 10009

What We Teach

How can Art Education, using Contemporary Art as a tool, become a catalyst for critical thought— by reshaping ideas, instilling critical doubt in students?

Speaker: Yasi Alipour

Yasi Alipour is an Iranian artist/writer/educator based in New York. Her tactile works on paper uses folding to explore mathematics as a language, with all the historical, social, political, mortal, and embodied ramifications any language holds. Alipour currently lives in Brooklyn and wonders about paper, politics, and performance, probing personal history to parse issues around political instability and interrupted histories. She is a recipient of Sharpe Walentas Studio Program Award (2019/2021), Rema Hort Foundation Emerging Artist Nominee (2018/2019), and the Triple Canopy Publication Intensive (2018). Her work has been exhibited in the United States and internationally, spaces including the Geary Contemporary (2021), Secca (2020), Venice Biennale (2019, IT), Hercules Program (2019, NY), 17 Essex (2019, NY), Limiditi-Temporary Art Project (2018, MR), Practice (2018, NY), Museum of Contemporary Art Vijdovina (2018, SR), Art in Odd Places (2017, NY), and PPOW (2017, NY). Her writing has appeared at the Brooklyn Rail, Spot Magazine, Asia Contemporary Art Week, Photograph Magazine, Volume One/Triple Canopy, and the Dear Dave. Her recent featured interviews include Okwui Okpokwasili, Allison Janae Hamilton, Sanford Biggers, Yto Barrada, Hans Haacke, Mark Dion, Aliza Nisenbaum, Jane Benson, and Kevin Beasley. Alipour holds teaching positions at the School of Visual Arts and Columbia University. Her courses include New Hegemonic, Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality in America (SVA), Art and Colonial experience (SVA), Global Perspective (SVA), and Seminar in Contemporary Art Practice (Columbia University) among others.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

PS122 Gallery, 150 1st Avenue, New York, United States