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Studio Art Spring 2024 Visiting Artist: Leila Weefur

Monday, February 5, 2024
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
5:40 pm – 6:45 pm EST/GMT-5
Leila Weefur (He/They/She) is an artist, writer, and curator based in Oakland, CA. Through film and installation they examine the performative elements connected to systems of belonging, present in Black, Queer, gender-variant life. An entanglement of beauty and horror evokes concepts of sensorial memory, architectural psychology, hyper surveillance, and the erotic.

Weefur has worked with local and national institutions including the ICASF, CCA’s Wattis Institute, McEvoy Foundation, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, San Francisco Art Institute, Museum of the African Diaspora, The Kitchen, and Smack Mellon. Weefur’s writing has been published in SEEN by BlackStar Productions, Sming Sming Books, Baest Journal, and more.

Weefur is a lecturer at Stanford University and a member of The Black Aesthetic.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.

Time: 5:40 pm – 6:45 pm EST/GMT-5

Location: Campus Center, Weis Cinema

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