Location: 002 Physics Building (enter building through the entrance by The Campanile)
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12pm - 1pm

Jasmine Nyende is an artist and musician from Los Angeles, CA. Her work explores how patterning in punk, astrology, poetry and craft can become healing collaborative modalities in our  communities. She is an astrologer rooted in the planet Saturn’s legacy told through African American culture, lead vocalist for the Black queer punk band FUCK U PAY US! and has a textile practice creating assemblage art from repurposed and recycled materials.

Zekarias Musele Thompson (they) is an artist based in Oakland, CA, and Reykjavik, IS who is interested in humanity’s conceptual and emotional organizational structures and how we bring them to material form. Their practice seeks to create containers that support our ability to navigate emergent psychosomatic responses through deep listening and close attention. Through sonic composition, photography, collaborative group practice and performance, writing, and mark-making, they intervene with entrenched historical narratives around individual and collective self-deception and embodied trauma.

The MFA Artist Talks are organized by the ART 218: Graduate Theory and Seminar class taught by Prof. Stephanie Syjuco, and hosted by the ART 8: Visual Thinking class taught by Prof. Asma Kazmi.