Public Lecture: Curator Jasmine Wahi, Co-Director of Project for Empty Space

Enjoy a public lecture featuring Jasmine Wahi, curator, educator, activist, and Co-Director/Co-Founder of Project for Empty Space (PES). PES is a multifaceted arts organization that includes exhibitions, artist residencies, public art initiatives, subsidized artist studios, and artist professional development/granting opportunities. 

In conjunction with Wahi's visit, PES's mobile exhibition truck will be onsite at Smith College on Thursday, April 10 and 11, featuring its current exhibition titled Body Freedom for Every(body). This exhibition is an ongoing celebration of intersecting issues pertaining to bodily autonomy, such as reproductive justice, queer liberation, and trans joy. 

Jasmine Wahi (born 1986) is a South Asian American curator, educator, and activist. Her work focuses on issues of femme empowerment, complicating binary structures within social discourses, and exploring multi-positional cultural identities through the lens of intersectional feminism. In addition to running Project for Empty Space, in Newark, NJ and curating international shows independently, Wahi teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and is currently the Holly Block Social Justice Curator of the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Wahi is a former board member of the South Asian Women's Creative Collective (SAWCC)

These events are free and open to the public.

Presented by the Smith College Department of Art in partnership with the Departments of American Studies; Archives Concentration; History; Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality; in addition to the Kahn Liberal Arts Institute; the Jandon Center for Community Engagement; and the Lazarus Center for Career Development.