and Puerto Rico, known colloquially as El Va y Ven.īorn in Nantong, China, Yikui Gu moved to Albany at age seven. Their installations incorporate video, soil and plans to explore the ever-shifting movement of people between the U.S. Jezabeth Roca González is a multidisciplinary maker and educator who works in collaboration with their family. George’s work has been presented at Philadelphia’s William Way LGBT Community Center, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Anthology Film Archives, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and many other venues.
They remain motivated and influenced by political struggles and fractured narratives. The work of multidisciplinary artist Rami George spans photography, video, installation, text and, more recently, music and sound. As such, he became fascinated with the ways art could be embedded in everyday life, activating common materials and encounters to explore themes such as diaspora, post-apocalypse, utopia, identity, notions of masculinity, Africanisms and Afro-futurism. Being of two worlds, Fall realized that through art he had the ability to construct his own worlds. Much of his work reflects his growing up within the Diaspora. Pap Souleye Fall BFA ’17 (Sculpture) is a Senegalese American artist who explores the transmedia potentials of sculpture, installation, performance, cosplay, digital media and comics. The committee that selected 10 artists from an international pool of 111 applications comprised Sherly Oring, dean of UArts’ School of Art Nicole Pollard, independent curator and James Claiborne, curator of public programs at the Barnes Foundation. Greenfield Makerspace and Laurie Wagman Recording Studios, and the Center for Immersive Media, which contains one of the largest motion-capture stages in an academic setting on the East Coast. 25, 2023, to May 31, 2024, and each artist will receive access to dedicated studio space and UArts’ cutting-edge workshops and labs. All 10 residencies will span the university’s entire academic year, from Aug. This second cohort of artists includes two UArts alumni, an adjunct faculty member and individuals who explore critical concepts of race, identity and justice through writing, painting, video, installation and performance.
The artists also become critical members of the university community, demonstrating new pathways and forging new connections with students, faculty and artists across the greater Philadelphia region. Launched last year, iLAB gathers emerging and mid-career artists in Anderson Hall on South Broad Street as a way to accelerate their contributions to our broader cultural dialogue. Ten artists from across a range of media will join University of the Arts in August as the second cohort of artists in residence through the university’s Inspiration Lab (iLAB).
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