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Monday, October 23, 2023
4:00-5:30 PM in the VAC Auditorium 1B20

Tomashi Jackson creates vibrant research-driven works in the mediums of paintings, printmaking, video, photography, fiber, and sculpture. Influenced by California muralist traditions reflecting peoples’ movements of the 1950’s-1990’s, her often immersive work scrutinizes the mechanics of societal power and recognizes the triumphs for the empowerment of communities of color.

Tomashi Jackson��(born 1980 in Houston, Texas) was raised in Los Angeles, California. She received her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale School of Art in 2016, her Master of Science in Art, Culture and Technology from the MIT School of Architecture and Planning in 2012. Jackson's work has been included in recent solo exhibitions at the Parrish Art Museum, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the Wexner Center for the Arts. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions including the��Off the Record��at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2021), the 2019 Whitney Biennial, and��In the Abstract��at MASS MoCA (2017). Jackson's artworks are in numerous museum collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Living Archive, Living Cinema: Processing the Work of Ken and Flo Jacobs����
A Symposium: October 5-6, 2023����
Free and open to the public

This two-day symposium is a celebration of the work of Ken and Flo Jacobs, experimental film icons, whose paper collection has joined the Rare and Distinctive Collection department of the CU Libraries. It is also a convening of experts around the question of “the archive” – the material archive, the conceptual archive, the archive as an aesthetic in itself; featuring in-person��Azazel Jacobs,��Tom Gunning�����Ի���Andrew Lampert, as well as receptions, a panel conversation, and curated film programs.

Presented in collaboration with, and co-sponsored by, the University Libraries, with additional support from the Department of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts, the Program in Jewish Studies, the William H. Donner Foundation, and the Roser Visiting Artist Program at the 911������.

Organized by��Hanna Rose Shell��(Faculty Director of the Brakhage Center and Associate Professor of Art & Art History and Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts) and��Jamie Marie Wagner��(Moving Image Archivist, Rare and Distinctive Collections, University Libraries)

Link to Symposium Event Schedule

Body Parts (2022)
A documentary that exposes the uncomfortable reality that actors face creating Hollywood’s iconic sex scenes. The director is in person!

Kristy Guevara-Flanagan
Award-winning Documentary Filmmaker (Sundance, Tribeca, SXSW)

Film Screening and Q&A
Oct. 19th, 7:30pm��in ATLAS 100

Artist Workshop
Oct. 20th, 10:30am��in ATLAS 100
Learn about the importance of intimacy coordination and feminist filmmaking practices.

Master of Fine Arts alumna Abby Bennett has launched a successful career in the arts after graduation and now��builds��monumental public artworks around the world. Professor Yumi Janairo Roth��sat down with Abby and talked with her about her time at 911������ and her career trajectory.��

Link to Alumni Conversation with Abby Bennett