Julian Fisher studied with Walker Evans as an American Studies major at Yale University; photographed for the Yale Daily News; and freelanced while at Yale and after for the New York Times, Time, Newsweek, Life, and The Atlantic. He pursued a medical degree at Johns Hopkins, becoming a pediatrician and neurologist on the Harvard Medical School faculty. Dr. Fisher has returned to photojournalism to produce “Trapped in the Middle: The Effect of Income Inequality on the American Middle Class.” He is now completing a second project documenting America’s changing position as a global power, “Faded Glory.” Dr. Fisher lives and works in Brookline, MA.
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Event Overview
This is the tenth and final webinar in a year-long exploration of the foundational causes of and responses to racial and social injustice in the United States, convened by the leadership of Cornell’s West Campus House System. The series has examined scholarship, policy, and activism in five key areas — voting, criminal justice, higher education, climate change, and housing — alternating with explorations of artistic interventions and arts activism by leading practitioners.
“Full Circle” brings us back to where we started, in one place, alone and together, grappling with the complex issues spotlighted by both the pandemic and the movement for racial justice. Four diverse artists, who are also educators in fields that range from medicine to architecture, will each present their practice and the ways in which it speaks to our current moment, offering us glimpses of how one bears witness while building moments for reflection, resolution, renewal, and action.
“Full Circle” brings us back to where we started, in one place, alone and together, grappling with the complex issues spotlighted by both the pandemic and the movement for racial justice. Four diverse artists, who are also educators in fields that range from medicine to architecture, will each present their practice and the ways in which it speaks to our current moment, offering us glimpses of how one bears witness while building moments for reflection, resolution, renewal, and action.
What You'll Learn
- How artistic practice is a way to bear witness to an evolving world
- The impact of art on people who live through change that provokes thought and allows us to consider connections between people in space and across time
- Insight into the creative process of a diverse group of artists who have carved out careers and lives in ways that speak to their individual lived experiences and situated realities
- A reflection on the ten-webinar series “… And (In)Justice For All” along with its goals: to start a process of education and determine what each of us can do to foster change
Speakers
Photojournalist and neurologist
Pradeep Dalal
Artist, Educator, and Program Director
The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant
Artist, Educator, and Program Director at The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant
Pradeep Dalal is a Mumbai-born artist and writer based in New York. His work has been shown at venues like EFA Project Space, New York (2019); Callicoon Fine Arts, New York (2017); and Sala Diaz, San Antonio, Texas (2017). Mr. Dalal’s photographs have been included in publications such as Blind Spot, BOMB, Cabinet, Grey Room, Nueva Luz, and Rethinking Marxism. His artist book “Bhopal, MP” (2017) was excerpted in “Chandigarh Is in India” (2016), and his essay “A Bifocal Frame of Reference” was published in “Western Artists and India: Creative Inspirations in Art and Design” (2013). With Fia Backström, Mr. Dalal co-chaired the Photography Department in the MFA program at Bard College from 2015 to 2020. He has also taught at Pratt Institute, Cooper Union, and the International Center of Photography. Mr. Dalal directs the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program in New York.
Santee Smith
Artistic Director; Chancellor
Kaha:wi Dance Theatre
McMaster University
Artistic Director of Kaha:wi Dance Theatre; Chancellor of McMaster University
Santee Smith/Tekaronhiáhkhwa/Picking Up The Sky is a multidisciplinary artist from the Kahnyen’kehàka Nation, Six Nations of the Grand River. She trained at Canada’s National Ballet School and completed Physical Education and Psychology degrees from McMaster University as well as a Dance M.A. from York University. Ms. Smith premiered her inaugural work ”Kaha:wi” in 2004 and later founded Kaha:wi Dance Theatre, which has grown into an internationally renowned company. She is a sought-after teacher and speaker on Indigenous performance and culture. Through embodied storytelling and performance, her work speaks to Indigenous identity and continuance. Ms. Smith is the 19th Chancellor of McMaster University.
Artist
Terry Plater enjoyed a career of over 30 years in higher education that included positions on the faculty and in the administration at the University of Lagos, Nigeria; the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; and Cornell University. Dr. Plater’s graduate degrees are in architecture (M. Arch., Columbia University) and City and Regional Planning/International Development (MUP, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania). Painting full time since 2010, she is a contemporary realist whose multi-platform work crosses genres, focusing on questions of equity aesthetics. Dr. Plater is an Ithaca resident.
Photojournalist and neurologist
Julian Fisher studied with Walker Evans as an American Studies major at Yale University; photographed for the Yale Daily News; and freelanced while at Yale and after for the New York Times, Time, Newsweek, Life, and The Atlantic. He pursued a medical degree at Johns Hopkins, becoming a pediatrician and neurologist on the Harvard Medical School faculty. Dr. Fisher has returned to photojournalism to produce “Trapped in the Middle: The Effect of Income Inequality on the American Middle Class.” He is now completing a second project documenting America’s changing position as a global power, “Faded Glory.” Dr. Fisher lives and works in Brookline, MA.
Pradeep Dalal
Artist, Educator, and Program Director
The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant
Artist, Educator, and Program Director at The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant
Pradeep Dalal is a Mumbai-born artist and writer based in New York. His work has been shown at venues like EFA Project Space, New York (2019); Callicoon Fine Arts, New York (2017); and Sala Diaz, San Antonio, Texas (2017). Mr. Dalal’s photographs have been included in publications such as Blind Spot, BOMB, Cabinet, Grey Room, Nueva Luz, and Rethinking Marxism. His artist book “Bhopal, MP” (2017) was excerpted in “Chandigarh Is in India” (2016), and his essay “A Bifocal Frame of Reference” was published in “Western Artists and India: Creative Inspirations in Art and Design” (2013). With Fia Backström, Mr. Dalal co-chaired the Photography Department in the MFA program at Bard College from 2015 to 2020. He has also taught at Pratt Institute, Cooper Union, and the International Center of Photography. Mr. Dalal directs the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program in New York.
Santee Smith
Artistic Director; Chancellor
Kaha:wi Dance Theatre
McMaster University
Artistic Director of Kaha:wi Dance Theatre; Chancellor of McMaster University
Santee Smith/Tekaronhiáhkhwa/Picking Up The Sky is a multidisciplinary artist from the Kahnyen’kehàka Nation, Six Nations of the Grand River. She trained at Canada’s National Ballet School and completed Physical Education and Psychology degrees from McMaster University as well as a Dance M.A. from York University. Ms. Smith premiered her inaugural work ”Kaha:wi” in 2004 and later founded Kaha:wi Dance Theatre, which has grown into an internationally renowned company. She is a sought-after teacher and speaker on Indigenous performance and culture. Through embodied storytelling and performance, her work speaks to Indigenous identity and continuance. Ms. Smith is the 19th Chancellor of McMaster University.
Artist
Terry Plater enjoyed a career of over 30 years in higher education that included positions on the faculty and in the administration at the University of Lagos, Nigeria; the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; and Cornell University. Dr. Plater’s graduate degrees are in architecture (M. Arch., Columbia University) and City and Regional Planning/International Development (MUP, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania). Painting full time since 2010, she is a contemporary realist whose multi-platform work crosses genres, focusing on questions of equity aesthetics. Dr. Plater is an Ithaca resident.
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