Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo Named a Wynn Newhouse Award Winner
Visiting Artist In Residence Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo. Photo by Soph Rocha
Visiting Artist In Residence Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo was named one of the Wynn Newhouse Award winners for 2024. The award is a one-time grant to exceptional fine artists with disabilities, acknowledging their merit and giving them funding with no strings attached. Works by winning artists may also be on exhibition at the Palitz Gallery in New York City.
Branfman-Verissimo has taught in the Studio Arts program at Bard since 2024. Their work focuses on community-based work and installation building, and invites the viewer to recall and share their own lived narratives in order to create a dialogue around the telling of Black, Indigenous, Queer, and Trans stories. Their artist’s statement notes, “Through performance, painting, installation building, printmaking, interdisciplinary processes and cultural work, I strive to re-create and re-tell my personal tales and those of the people that surround me.”
Post Date: 05-05-2025
Branfman-Verissimo has taught in the Studio Arts program at Bard since 2024. Their work focuses on community-based work and installation building, and invites the viewer to recall and share their own lived narratives in order to create a dialogue around the telling of Black, Indigenous, Queer, and Trans stories. Their artist’s statement notes, “Through performance, painting, installation building, printmaking, interdisciplinary processes and cultural work, I strive to re-create and re-tell my personal tales and those of the people that surround me.”
Post Date: 05-05-2025