Announcement: Artist Huma Bhabha to Speak October 6 as Part of Pratt's 2009-2010 Visiting Artist Lecture Series

Artist Huma Bhabha will speak at Pratt Institute about her
influences, artwork, and career as part of the 2009-2010 Visiting
Artists Lecture Series, from 12:45 p.m. to 1:45 p.m., Tuesday, October
6, in the Engineering Building, Room 371, on Pratt's Brooklyn Campus.
The lecture is free and open to the public.

The Pratt Visiting Artists Lecture Series is an annual year-long series
organized by the Department of Fine Arts in the School of Art and Design
at Pratt Institute to welcome nationally and internationally recognized
fine artists to share their experiences with the Pratt community.

Poughkeepsie-based Bhabha will speak about the methods, craft, and
influences behind her found object- inspired sculptures, works on paper,
and photography.

Bhabha has exhibited in New York at the P.S.1/Museum of Modern Art
Contemporary Art Center, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the New
Museum. She exhibited at The Royal Academy in London as part of the "USA
Today" exhibition. In 2008, she was honored with an Emerging Artist Award
and a solo exhibition from the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in
Ridgefield, Conn.

Bhabha received a bachelor of fine arts degree from Rhode Island School
of Design and a master of fine arts degree from Columbia University.

Bhabha is the first artist of eight invited to speak as part of the fall
program of the 2009-2010 Visiting Artists Lecture Series. The series is
coordinated by graduate students Yael Rechter and Elizabeth Stehling
under the supervision of Professor Dominique Nahas in the Department of
Fine Arts.

For more information, please contact Kate Unver at 718.230.6847 or
kunver@pratt.edu.

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