The Low-Res Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture Series resource guides contain upcoming speakers' biographies, articles, video and audio content, related publications in the Flaxman Library, and additional online resources. These guides may be used in preparation for the public lecture, studio visits, and post-lecture discussion.
Sara Reisman: Monday, July 21, 6:00–7:30 p.m. CT
SAIC Ballroom, 112 South Michigan Avenue
Sara Reisman is a curator, educator, and writer based in New York City. Her curatorial and educational engagements have focused on socially engaged art, the history of exhibition making, public art, both temporary and permanent, artist books, and the intersections between art and activism. She has held roles in curatorial, philanthropic, and educational capacities including Chief Curator at the National Academy of Design (2021-2025), Executive and Artistic Director of the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation (2014-2021), and Director of New York City’s Percent for Art Program (2008-2014), where she managed more than 100 permanent public art commissions across New York City's five boroughs. Reisman has taught art history and contemporary art at the University of Pennsylvania and SUNY Purchase School of Art + Design, and since 2016, she has been on the faculty at the School of Visual Arts’ Curatorial Practice Masters Program. In her most recent curatorial role at the National Academy, she organized large-scale thematic exhibitions including Past as Prologue: A Historical Acknowledgment, which examined the role of art in U.S. nation-building; Drawing as Practice; Consequences: A Parlor Game; Exercises in Imagination; and Sites of Impermanence.
Chief Curator Sara Reisman Unlocks the Secrets of Curation Inside The National Academy of Design
Len Gordan | ART PLUGGED | March 4, 2024
SARA REISMAN with Kara Rooney
The Brooklyn Rail | October, 2015
The Storm We Call Progress
Sara Reisman | National Academy of Design | October 17, 2024
Past as Prologue: Part I & Part II [Exhibition Brochures]*
Sara Reisman | National Academy of Design | 2024
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To Cast Too Bold A Shadow [Exhibition Brochure]
Sara Reisman | The 8th Floor | 2020
The Watchers [Exhibition Brochure]
Sara Reisman | The 8th Floor | 2019
Condensations of the Social: A Reader
Sara Reisman | 2010
Between the Lines: Residencies, Commissions, and Public Art* [Book Chapter]
Taking AIM, Fordham University Press | pp. 196-214 | 2020
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Mobilizing Pedagogy: Two Social Practice Projects in the Americas
Elyse A. Gonzales & Sara Reisman (Editors) | Amherst College Press | 2018 [Open Access Publication]
Elia Alba: the Supper Club
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Elia Alba's The Supper Club photographic portrait series depicts U.S. - based artists of colour. Alongside the portraits are excerpts from dinner conversations addressing issues that relate to race and visual culture on themes including sanctuary, policin g, post - black identity and intersectional identities connecting gender, race and privilege.Elia Alba's The Supper Club focuses on racial politics and visual culture. Curated by Sara Reisman for The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, The Supper Club is c omprised of socially - engaged dinners and portraits of artist participants. She began photographing artists of color like LaToya Ruby Frazier and Mickalene Thomas in 2012.To give voice to her community Alba hosted dinners, 25 so far, with themes like Balt imore, Race and Identity (in honor of Freddy Gray) and Racial Subjugation in Latin America. Inspired by Vanity Fair's "Hollywood Issue," Alba's portraits capture each artist's unique voice, transforming them into iconic images.
Now Is the Time to Address Issues of Accessibility for Artists and Institutions
Sara Reisman | ARTnews | January 4, 2021
from 19th-century portraits to modern protest: exploring 'past as prologue' with sara reisman
Kat Barandy | Design Boom | October 30, 2024
Sara Reisman – interview
Lilly Wei | Studio International | November 22, 2023