Events

Kenneth Tam is a Brooklyn-based artist born in Queens, NY. His work often takes the form of video and sculpture and it's interested in reimagining the spaces and rituals that inform ideas about the male body and its performance. The work looks at ways in which hegemonic and normative forms of male subjectivity can be rearticulated to reveal spaces of intimacy vulnerability and even loss.

J.L. Abraham works by hand (printing and painting), works on paper (French sheets, Japanese rolls, machine made in America), and works through aggregation (of blocks, colors, methods, sheets). Though she often multiplies, she rarely duplicates.

The British novelist Henry Green once said narrative prose should be "a gathering web of insinuations". I'd like to talk about ways of writing that navigate the margin of an idea rather than anything resembling its center—how the fluid, circuitous, evasive, and unstable route can produce viscerally charged work.

Join us for the open reception of Julie Abraham's exhibit, "Working Paper."

Led by writing faculty member Suzanne Gardinier, this talk will focus on Gardinier's friendship with Regina Arnold (1948-2006), the first tenured African-American faculty member at Sarah Lawrence and founder 25 years ago of the Right to Write program, which links the College to the teaching of writing in Westchester County jails.

A lecture by Namiko Kunimoto, Associate Professor, The Ohio State University.

Sarah Lawrence College is pleased to welcome television host, author, political commentator, and professor Melissa Harris-Perry to campus to discuss centering African Americans in the American story.

In this talk, we'll explore the craft of writing fiction that doesn't move—fiction contained in a single, discreet space as large as a house, and as small as a bed—and the implication it has for our understanding of gender, characterization, and plot. Stories discussed will include Angela Carter's "The Fall-River Axe Murders," Susan Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers," Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour," and Nancy Hale's "The Earliest Dreams."

Carmen Maria Machado's debut short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, was a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize. Her essays, fiction, and criticism have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, Harper’s Bazaar, and elsewhere. She is the Writer in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania and lives in Philadelphia with her wife.

Aracelis Girmay holds a BA from Connecticut College and an MFA from New York University. She is the author of Teeth, Kingdom Animalia, and The Black Maria.