EventsThe New Social Environment#1286

Alex Strada: Public Address

Featuring Strada and Gaby Collins-Fernandez

Wednesday, November 5, 2025 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

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Artist Alex Strada joins Rail contributor Gaby Collins-Fernandez for a conversation on Zoom.

Alex Strada

A photo of Alex Strada on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

Alex Strada is a New York City-based artist and educator working across installation, still and moving image, sound, performance, and public practice. Through research-driven, collaborative projects, she reimagines systems of power and creates platforms for collectivity and civic transformation. Since 2022, she has served as Public Artist in Residence with NYC’s Department of Homeless Services and Department of Cultural Affairs. Recent solo exhibitions and commissions include the Storefront for Art and Architecture, Queens Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Project Row Houses, and Times Square Arts. She is currently the Fine Arts Civic Engagement Fellow at the Pratt Institute.

Gaby Collins-Fernandez

A photo of Gaby Collins-Fernandez on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Photo by Michael Marcelle
Gaby Collins-Fernandez is an artist living and working in New York City. She holds degrees from Dartmouth College (BA) and the Yale School of Art (MFA, Painting/Printmaking). Her work has been shown in the US and internationally, including at Peter Freeman, Inc., the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama and El Museo del Barrio, NY. Her work has been discussed in publications such as the Brooklyn Rail and artcritical, and on the video interview series, Gorky’s Granddaughter. She is a recipient of residencies at Yaddo (Saratoga Springs, NY), The Marble House Project (Dorset, VT), and a 2013 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Art Award. She is a founder and publisher of the annual magazine Precog, and a co-director of the artist-run art and music initiative BombPop!Up.

We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨

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