Our Creative Counterpoints Series features guest artists, public intellectuals and culture makers working at the intersections of geographies, languages, identities, and artistic media.
Creative Counterpoints is the MassArt series devoted to the conversations between visual artists, writers, and other culture makers who live and work across geographies, languages, identities, and media. The series’ propelling impetus is to highlight diverse creatives who utilize craft as tools, narratives, and lenses to reflect on and redress social inequities.
In 2024, Creative Counterpoints is proud to participate in Craft in the Real World, a year-long partnership with the Creative Writing Minor, Brant Gallery, and Studio Foundation Department. The program, centered around Matthew Salesses’ seminal text Craft in the Real World, aims to catalyze conversations on the present and future of craft teaching across disciplines and media.
Creative Counterpoints: Jack Halberstam, and Trans* Representing the Transgender Body on Screen, March 2019.
Creative Counterpoints: Jack Halberstam, and Trans* Representing the Transgender Body on Screen, March 2019.
Creative Counterpoints began in March 2016, thanks to a MassArt Foundation Fellowship Grant awarded to Marika Preziuso ( Professor, Humanities) to attend the Transnational Feminist Summer Institute (TFSI) at Ohio State University, and organize a program engaging the MassArt community in critical questions and debates of transnational feminism.
Previous Creative Counterpoints speakers include authors Valeria Luiselli ( Tell Me How It Ends, Lost Children Archive) and Nnedi Okorafor (Akata Witch, Binti), gender studies scholar Jack Halberstam (Trans*, Female Masculinity), visual artists Sherazade Garcia ( The Map in My Skin) and Vincent Valdez (In Memory). The series has featured student exhibitions, presentations by MassArt alumni – Gustavo Barceloni (Ceramics, ‘17), Mariana Yanes Cabral (Art Education, ‘17), and Ryan Vazquez (Film/Video, ‘17), whose work highlights practices of cultural and linguistic translation, research presentations on media interventions in social justice by Anne Sisto (DMI‘16) and X Wang ( MFA Photo, ‘16).
Creative Counterpoints is possible thanks to the support of the Humanities Department, the President’s Office, the Office of Academic Affairs, and The Office of Justice, Equity, and Transformation (JET).
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