Faculty
Ayesha Khan
BFA, National College of Arts. MFA, Pratt Institute. Khan is a visual artist whose work ranges from stop-motion animation and drawing to large-scale sculptural installations. Her practice deals with local material extractions and the incapacity of translation. The work confesses these discrepancies and instead seeps into the gaps. She exaggerates temporary solutions to claim land, looking for a balance revealing the lack thereof. Khan was a fellow at the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program in 2023. She has participated in numerous artist residencies including Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the International Studio & Curatorial Program. Her work has been exhibited at institutions internationally, including the Karachi Biennale, the Queens Museum, and the Kuwait Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. She has also taught at Pratt Institute and New York Academy of Art. SLC, 2027–
Undergraduate Courses 2026-2027
Visual and Studio Arts
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Open, Studio—Spring
ARTS 3056
Considering multiple routes of arrival, we will revisit some places that have been meaningful to you that you carry along wherever you go. From direct observations to conjuring places from childhood memories, we will devise methods of mapping. We will maintain a mode of collective and independent study with various prompts, readings for discussions, and examples shared. We will explore different methods of drawing including contour, blind contour, note-taking, repetition, erasure, building, collage, and more with studio materials as well as expanded materials such as receipts, conversations, dirt, and engravings, developed by students individually. Each student will maintain a sketchbook throughout the course with recordings of places to develop a practice of observing, recordkeeping, and articulating through drawing. We will be moving between varying scales: of a place embedded in your memory on a micro level, such as from hiding under the table while playing hide and seek, to a more macro study of a geographical location and its infrastructure. In the way that certain smells have a transportable power—plugging that association in your mind to a particular place, to certain people, to specific times—we will explore what are some ways we can carry a sense of a place with us. We will unpack these places by examining its location, history, memory, im/materiality, volume, capacity, temperature, traceability, portability, in/stability, dis/comfort, and more expanding our understanding of materials—that reveal a variety of logics that hold a place together.
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