Add to Calendar2023-03-13 00:00:012023-03-27 23:59:00OPEN CALL: MeMoSa Series with Shahzia Sikander
Open Call Submission Form
Submit to share your work during the Media Movement Salon (MeMoSa) Series with Shahzia Sikander!
Pakistani-American multi-media visual artist Shahzia Sikander collaborates with the Movement Lab, Theatre Department, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, and South Asia Institute on this process-focused Media Movement Salon (MeMoSa) Series. With a different focus each day, Shahzia will present her work in conjunction with student artists from Monday April 10th through Thursday April 13th.
This form is for students interested in sharing work only. Maximum time for each share is 3 minutes.
Thematic coordinators will individually be in touch to order and plan the program for each day.
Submission deadline Monday, March 27
Full event details here: https://movement.barnard.edu/events/memosa-series-shahzia-sikander
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Poster Image: Uprooted, 2021 by Shahzia Sikander | Poster Design: Guy de Lancey
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Photo by Matthias Zeigler
Born in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1969, Shahzia Sikander took up the traditional practice of miniature painting during Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq’s military regime, at a time when the medium was deeply unpopular among young artists. Sikander earned a B.F.A. in 1991 from the National College of Arts (NCA) in Lahore, where she received rigorous training from master miniaturist Bashir Ahmad. She became the first woman to teach in the Miniature Painting Department at NCA, alongside Ahmad, and was the first artist from the department to challenge the medium’s technical and aesthetic framework. Sikander’s breakthrough work, The Scroll, 1989–90, received national critical acclaim in Pakistan, winning the prestigious Shakir Ali Award, the NCA’s highest merit award, and the Haji Sharif award for excellence in miniature painting, subsequently launching the medium into the forefront of NCA’s program, which brought international recognition to this medium within contemporary art practices. The artist moved to the United States to pursue an M.F.A. at the Rhode Island School of Design from 1993 to 1995; from 1995 to 1997, she participated in the CORE Program of the Glassell School of Art at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
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Pakistani-American multi-media visual artist Shahzia Sikander collaborates with the Movement Lab, Theatre Department, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, and South Asia Institute on this process-focused Media Movement Salon (MeMoSa) Series. With a different focus each day, Shahzia will present her work in conjunction with student artists from Monday April 10th through Thursday April 13th.
This form is for students interested in sharing work only. Maximum time for each share is 3 minutes.
Thematic coordinators will individually be in touch to order and plan the program for each day.
Poster Image: Uprooted, 2021 by Shahzia Sikander | Poster Design: Guy de Lancey
Bio:
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Photo by Matthias ZeiglerBorn in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1969, Shahzia Sikander took up the traditional practice of miniature painting during Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq’s military regime, at a time when the medium was deeply unpopular among young artists. Sikander earned a B.F.A. in 1991 from the National College of Arts (NCA) in Lahore, where she received rigorous training from master miniaturist Bashir Ahmad. She became the first woman to teach in the Miniature Painting Department at NCA, alongside Ahmad, and was the first artist from the department to challenge the medium’s technical and aesthetic framework. Sikander’s breakthrough work, The Scroll, 1989–90, received national critical acclaim in Pakistan, winning the prestigious Shakir Ali Award, the NCA’s highest merit award, and the Haji Sharif award for excellence in miniature painting, subsequently launching the medium into the forefront of NCA’s program, which brought international recognition to this medium within contemporary art practices. The artist moved to the United States to pursue an M.F.A. at the Rhode Island School of Design from 1993 to 1995; from 1995 to 1997, she participated in the CORE Program of the Glassell School of Art at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
