Night Tulips, 2020, oil on canvas, 43 x 50 inches
Exhibits & Programs
Ying Li: Blossoms In A Sudden Strangeness
September 22 – November 13, 2020
On March 11, 2020 Ying Li received notification that the Haverford College campus would be closing temporarily in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Pennsylvania. What was initially forecast as a brief break soon became weeks and then months. Faced with time and a campus blossoming from winter to spring and spring to fall, Ying Li did what any artist would do and went to work, painting each day en plein air. The result is Blossoms in a Sudden Strangeness, an exhibition that captures the abstract beauty of Li’s creative output from March – August 2020.
Upcoming Virtual Events
Artist Talk: Ying Li in Conversation with Curator Andrea Packard
Thursday, October 1, 2020, 4:30 p.m. EST
Register for the virtual event and you will be emailed details in advance.
Slavs and Tatars present The Contest of the Fruits
The Contest of the Fruits project will consist of an array of activities with Slavs and Tatars through fall 2021 that will explore physical and cultural borders, heritage, and identity through an extended artist residency, animated film, an exhibition at Haverford’s Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, public programs, and a publication.
Upcoming Virtual Events
The Contest in Context: Uyghur and Urdu Poetry Reading and Discussion
Thursday, September 24, 2020
Poetry Reading 5-6pm EST / Discussion and Q&A 6-6:30pm EST
At a time when their homelands are engulfed in crisis, two poets, one from the Uyghur region, the other from Kashmir, are giving voice to what it means to survive anguish and find a way to live, love, dream, and hope. Tahir Hamut Izgil and Abdul Manan Bhat’s struggles inflect their voices: their lines are haunted by loss, and carry the bewilderments and unmoorings of being forced to leave home. Yet their poems also contain hope, and point to the imaginative and creative resources we can marshall to contend with our world. Come hear these two poets read their works in the original Uyghur and Urdu, while their translators, Joshua L. Freeman and Partha P. Chakrabartty, read their English renderings.
