Globally Connected @ FIT: Exploring Identities through Art
School of Liberal Arts and Sciences
About
- Title
- Globally Connected @ FIT: Exploring Identities through Art
- Contributor Names
- Mazzoli, Annalisa (Panelist)
- Contreras, Steven Molina (Panelist)
- Amato, Ron (Panelist)
- Date
- 12-09-2021
- Description
- Globally Connected @ FIT has brought together an exciting panel of three artists who have recently produced work that explores themes of identity, personal history, intimate relationships, and time. Join us for a discussion about their work and how they explore their identities and histories through their lenses.
- Annalisa Mazzoli is an artist and professor at FIT Milan, where she has been teaching photo styling and fashion communication since 2017. Originally from Modena, she studied at ISIA Graphic Institute University of Urbino and held a scholarship at FABRICA, Benetton’s Research Centre of Communication. Specializing in fashion photography, portrait and still life, Annalisa has been working as a professional photographer for advertising agencies and magazines such as Glamour, VanityFair, Gioia, Amica, DonnaModerna. She also worked at the International Center of Photography in New York City, and taught at Afol Moda Milan.
- Steven Molina Contreras (b.1999, San Salvador, El Salvador) is a lens-based artist living and working in New York. His work focuses on themes of migration, matriarchy, sacrifice, and love by surveying his family’s personal and social history in the United States and El Salvador. Through an approach that employs the aesthetics of documentary and staged photography, Molina Contreras challenges insular views of migrants by expanding their depictions and reclaiming the land and images they portray. Molina Contreras holds a BFA in Photography and Related Media from the Fashion Institute of Technology. His work has been featured by Aperture, Humble Arts Foundation, The New York Times Magazine, and the New Yorker to name a few. He was also an artist in residence at Lightwork in 2021.
- Ron Amato is a Professor in Photography and Related Media at Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. Ron’s art practice revolves around his identity as a Gay man. Some of the issues explored in Ron’s work are aging within the Gay community, male representation in social media and the attack on LGBTQ people by the previous executive branch of the federal government in the United States. His first monograph, The Box, visually represents Ron’s journey from a boy born into a second-generation Italian-American family in Brooklyn, NY to his current position as a respected educator and artist. Ron is a leader for diversity and inclusion on the FIT campus, serving nine years on The President’s Diversity Council. He has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally. His seminal exhibition of sexual self-portraits in NYC in 2000, established Ron as a leading Queer artist. He has a BFA in Photography from School of Visual Art, NYC and an MFA in New Media Art and Performance from Long Island University. He currently lives in Brooklyn with his husband, Seth, and their two Fox Terriers, Ben and Zeb.
- Globally Connected @ FIT is a series of 45-minute virtual discussions led by students, faculty, and alumni to advance global education at FIT in our world with limited mobility. The major themes are fashion, art, sustainability, racial equity, and life during the pandemic around the world. Hosted by the Office of International Programs and the Cultural Fellows, and the History of Art Department.
- Subject
- Photography
- Identity (Psychology) in art
- Identity politics
- Identity (Philosophical concept) in art
- Rights
- In Copyright
- This video was produced by the Fashion Institute of Technology ("FIT") and is the property of FIT. FIT expressly prohibits the copying, displaying, or uploading to a website of any portion of this video, except for the purposes of fair use as defined in the copyright laws, without express written permission from FIT. This video has been made available online by the Fashion Institute of Technology Gladys Marcus Library strictly for research and educational purposes. If you are the copyright holder for content in this video and have any objections to this work being made available online, please notify us immediately at [email protected].
- Identifier
- FIT Repository ID: aod_001126
Citation
Fashion Institute of Technology. (2021, September 12). Globally Connected @ FIT: Exploring Identities through Art [Video]. Archive on Demand. https://archiveondemand.fitnyc.edu/item/602023
Fashion Institute of Technology. "Globally Connected @ FIT: Exploring Identities through Art." Archive on Demand, 12 Sep. 2021, https://archiveondemand.fitnyc.edu/item/602023
Fashion Institute of Technology, "Globally Connected @ FIT: Exploring Identities through Art," Archive on Demand, September 12, 2021, video, https://archiveondemand.fitnyc.edu/item/602023