EventsThe New Social Environment#959

Drawing as Practice

Featuring Sara Reisman and Christina Yang, with Sallie Fullerton

Friday, December 8, 2023 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.

Curator Sara Reisman joins scholar Christina Yang for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Sallie Fullerton.

In this Talk

Visit Drawing as Practice, on view at The National Academy of Design, New York through December 16, 2023 →

Sara Reisman

Photo by Elia Alba

Curator, writer and educator with over 20 years of experience in the field, Sara Reisman is currently the Chief Curator at the National Academy of Design in New York City. Previous roles include Executive and Artistic Director for the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation and Director of New York City’s Percent for Art program. She has curated exhibitions for Hugh Lane Dublin City Gallery, the Queens Museum, the Philadelphia ICA, and LaMaMa Galleria, among other venues. She’s been awarded residencies by Art Omi, the Foundation for a Civil Society, Artis, CEC Artslink, Futura, and the Montello Foundation. She has also taught art history within SVA’s Curatorial Practice Masters program since 2016, and contemporary art at Bezalel since 2022.

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Christina Yang

Christina Yang is Executive Director of AAMC Foundation as well as an independent curator based in New York and Williamstown. She specializes in spectatorship, politics of the image, experimental genres, and feminist care. She has been a curator at The Kitchen, Queens and Guggenheim Museums, as well at Williams College and UC Berkeley. She teaches in SVA’s Masters Program in Curatorial Practice. She participated in Asia Art Archive in America’s 2024 Leadership Camp led by Simon Wu and Daniel Chew. She received her Ph.D in performance studies from NYU in 2025.

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The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we're fortunate to have Dao Strom reading.

Dao Strom

Artist Dao Strom works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. She is the author of Instrument (Fonograf Editions, 2020) and its musical companion Traveler’s Ode (Antiquated Future Records, 2020); a bilingual poetry-art book, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else (AJAR Press); a memoir, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People, and song cycle, East/West; and two books of fiction, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys and Grass Roof, Tin Roof. Born in Vietnam, Strom grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California and lives in Portland, Oregon. She is co-founder of two collective art projects, She Who Has No Master(s), and De-Canon.

https://www.daostrom.com/

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 🌈✨