Nayland Blake: ARTSpeak lecture series

Nayland Blake: ARTSpeak lecture series

The Fine Arts Department presents a lecture by artist, Nayland Blake, as part of the 2010-11 lecture series, ARTSpeak: A Multipart Symposium on Diversity and Art.

Nayland Blake is an artist, writer and educator whose work addresses issues the artist’s own racially mixed background, sexual identity and body image. His work is included in the collections of MoMA, the Whitney Museum, the Studio Museum of Harlem, LA MoCa, and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, among others. In 1994 he co-curated the exhibition “In a Different Light,” the first major museum exhibition to examine the impact of queer artists on contemporary art.

The Diversity Council of the Fashion Institute of Technology is pleased to give its Stamp of Support for this event. Co-sponsored by the Fine Arts Department and a grant from the President’s Diversity Fund.

School of Art and Design

2010

57:31

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.

If you feel this work violates copyright law, please contact us at [email protected] and notify us immediately. Our intention is purely educational, but we will promptly remove any material determined to be in violation.