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Faith Adiele - Hybrid Structures for Hybrid Lives: On Collecting, Collaging & Colorizing Space

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feb 24

Mon, Feb 24 2025, 5:30PM - 7PM

N203 | Hooper Pavilion | Second Floor | 145 Hooper St, San Francisco, CA, 94107 View map

Part of event series: VISUAL & CRITICAL STUDIES FORUM | 2024-2025 SERIES

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VCS Methodologies

dchalabi@cca.edu

Event description

Since its inception in 2001, the acclaimed VCS Forum has featured thought leaders from a wide range of creative and scholarly fields. Open to the entire CCA community, these public-facing talks aim to foster dialogues across disciplines on contemporary issues in the visual arena.

This spring, each Forum speaker comes from our own CCA community. Each brings a unique perspective on visual and critical methodologies grounded in their respective discipline(s). Collectively they speak to how visual culture operates as both a tool of critique and transformation. Their work embodies a hybridized, inclusive, and engaged approach to examining the visual and cultural systems that define—and can redefine—how we see ourselves and the world.


This semester’s particular focus is on methods that:

  1. Unpack dominant narratives of race, gender, and power.

  2. Explore the intersections of representation with personal and collective memory.

  3. Reimagine the role of visual culture in building a more inclusive future.


About the Speaker:

Faith Adiele is the author of four hybrid chapbooks about her Nigerian-Nordic-American heritage, as well as Meeting Faith, a memoir about becoming Thailand’s first Black Buddhist Nun that won the PEN Open Book Award, routinely makes Best Of listicles, and is widely taught in American universities. 

Her media credits include a monthly column for Detour: Best Stories in Black Travel syndicated in The Miami Herald; art reviews for HyperallergicMy Journey Home, a PBS documentary about finding her family in Nigeria; and scripts for A World of Calm (HBO Max) and "sleep stories" for the meditation app, CALM

Named as one of Marie Claire Magazine’s “5 Women to Learn From,” Faith has presented at documenta14, Cannes Film Fest, and conferences and festivals around the world. She has been awarded 25+ artists’ residencies, including a UNESCO International Artists Bursary to Civitella Ranieri (Italy); Nawat Fes (Morocco); CourCommune (France); a Creative Nonfiction & Cultural Journalism Fellowship to Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada); Instituto Sacatar (Brazil); and Yaddo Corporation and MacDowell Colony (USA).

She is the founder and host of African Book Club at the Museum of the African Diaspora and founder of VONA's Traveling While BIPOC, the USA’s first writing workshop for travelers of color. Adiele chairs the Writing & Literature Program at California College of the Arts.



Entry details

Free & Open to the Public