<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-adn gmail-ads" style="border-left:none;padding:0px;display:flex;font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><div class="gmail-gs" style="margin:0px;min-width:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;width:auto"><div class="gmail-"><div id="gmail-:2rj" class="gmail-ii gmail-gt" style="direction:ltr;margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px;font-size:0.875rem;overflow-x:hidden"><div id="gmail-:2ri" class="gmail-a3s gmail-aiL" style="direction:ltr;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:small;line-height:1.5;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;overflow:auto hidden"><div dir="ltr"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.5rem;padding:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5rem;background-position:50% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:AvenirLT-Medium,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Melissa Levin and Alex Fialho, curators, will give a <span class="gmail-il">presentation</span> via Zoom on Wednesday, April 2, 2025, at 7:30 p.m.  Alex Fialho is an art historian, curator and PhD candidate in Yale University’s Combined PhD program in the History of Art and African American Studies. </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.5rem;padding:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5rem;background-position:50% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:AvenirLT-Medium,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Melissa Levin is a values-driven arts administrator and <span class="gmail-il">artist</span>-centered curator. Levin is currently the inaugural New York City-based Program Officer with the Jerome Foundation, supporting early career artists in Minnesota & NYC. </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.5rem;padding:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5rem;background-position:50% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:AvenirLT-Medium,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Fialho and Levin have curated exhibitions together starting in 2014, including <cite style="box-sizing:border-box;background-position:50% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word;display:inline;font-size:inherit">Trisha Brown: Embodied Practice</cite> and <cite style="box-sizing:border-box;background-position:50% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word;display:inline;font-size:inherit">Site Specificity</cite>; and <cite style="box-sizing:border-box;background-position:50% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word;display:inline;font-size:inherit">(Counter)Public: Art, Intervention, & Performance in Lower Manhattan from 1978–1993</cite>. Since 2016, they have curated critically-acclaimed exhibitions dedicated to the late <span class="gmail-il">artist</span> Michael Richards’s art, life, and legacy including <cite style="box-sizing:border-box;background-position:50% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word;display:inline;font-size:inherit">Michael Richards: Are You Down?</cite> (MOCA North Miami, 2021; North Carolina Museum of Art, 2023; Bronx Museum of the Arts, 2023–24); <cite style="box-sizing:border-box;background-position:50% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word;margin-bottom:0px;display:inline;font-size:inherit">Michael Richards: Winged</cite> (LMCC, NY, 2016; Stanford University, CA, 2019). At Stanford, they also co-organized the academic symposium “Flight, Diaspora, Identity, and Afterlife: A Symposium on the Art of Michael Richards.”</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.5rem;padding:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5rem;background-position:50% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:AvenirLT-Medium,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The <span class="gmail-il">Visual</span> <span class="gmail-il">Artist</span> <span class="gmail-il">Series</span> is made possible through the support of the Student Association.  All presentations are free and open to the public.  </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.5rem;padding:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5rem;background-position:50% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:AvenirLT-Medium,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Zoom link:</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.5rem;padding:0px;line-height:1.5rem;background-position:50% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:AvenirLT-Medium,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Topic: <span class="gmail-il">Visual</span> <span class="gmail-il">Artist</span> <span class="gmail-il">Series</span> - Melissa Levin & Alex Fialho</b><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-se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