Guest Faculty Lecture: Jasmine Wahi and Shahzia Sikander

Aug 12, 2025 7PM-8PM

Schermer Meeting Hall

Sunday and Tuesday evenings, June through September, Anderson Ranch features a slideshow presentation by distinguished faculty members and visiting artists. These insightful talks dive into the artists’ inspiration, their creative process, and more.

This presentation is free and open to the public and is available in person or via livestream.

Registration is appreciated. All on-campus workshop students will be pre-registered for this event.

Speaker

Jasmine Wahi

Jasmine Wahi is the founder and co-director of Project for Empty Space, a nonprofit organization in New York City and Newark, NJ. Her multifaceted curatorial practice predominantly 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 2023, she was honored by The Metropolitan Museum of Art for exemplary social impact work. In 2020, Wahi became the inaugural Holly Block Social Justice Curator at the Bronx Museum of the Arts.

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Shahzia Sikander

Shahzia Sikander is widely celebrated for subverting pre-modern and classical Central and South-Asian miniature painting traditions into dialogue with contemporary international art practices and launching the form known today as neo-miniature. Recipient of the MacArthur grant, Sikander’s early work is touring at the Morgan Library, the RISD museum, and MFA Houston in 2021-2022.

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