Steffani Jemison
Art
B.A., Columbia University in the City of New York; M.F.A., The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Visiting Lecturer in Studio Art and Cole Fellowship Coordinator
Visual artist and writer whose media include acetate, projection, and text.
During the last few years, my studio practice has included photography and two-dimensional work, often using acetate as a medium for photographic prints. I have also developed an ongoing collection of single-channel videos inspired by films of the late 1890s and early 1900s. These videos return to a moment in the history of narrative cinema when the tension between similarity and difference (as forced through situations involving both contingency and repetition) is repeated on multiple levels: in physical performance and in narrative structure.
During the 2012-2013 school year, I'm very excited to work closely with faculty in the Department of Art to establish the Alice C. Cole '42 Fellowship, a new award for emerging painters and sculptors. During the spring 2013 semester, I will teach ARTS 165 (Video 1).
Outside of my studio practice, I manage Future Plan and Program, a publishing project that commissions literary work by visual artists. In an ongoing collaboration with Houston-based artist Jamal Cyrus, I manage an ongoing traveling exhibition and social experiment, Alpha's Bet Is Not Over Yet, that explores issues surrounding literacy and print culture in black American communities.
