Rashaad Newsome: Engineers

California College of the Arts

Rashaad Newsome will discuss ideas around their new and recent work in 3D animation, collage, sculpture, and Artificial Intelligence.

Rashaad Newsome will discuss ideas around their new and recent work in 3D animation, collage, sculpture, and Artificial Intelligence.S﻿peaker BioRashaad Newsome's work blends several practices, including collage, sculpture, film &amp; video, animation, photography, music, writing, computer programming, software engineering, community organizing, and performance, to create a divergent field that mirrors the intersectionality of his lived experience. Using the diasporic traditions of improvisation, he pulls from the world of advertising, the internet, Art History, Black and Queer culture to produce counter-hegemonic work that walks the tightrope between social practice and abstraction. Collage acts as a conceptual and technical method to construct a new visual, performance, and literary language that highlight the immaterial and material expressivity related to Black American Life. Rashaad holds a 2023 honorary Doctorate Degree in Fine Arts from the University of Connecticut and a 2001 BFA in Art History from Tulane University. Newsome's work is in numerous public and private collections and has been exhibited and performed in galleries, museums, institutions, and festivals worldwide, including The Studio Museum in Harlem (NYC), The National Museum of African American History and Culture (DC), The Park Avenue Armory Drill Hall (NYC), The Whitney Museum (NYC), Brooklyn Museum (NYC), MoMAPS1 (NYC), Museum of the African Diaspora (SF, CA), SFMOMA (CA), New Orleans Museum of Art (LA), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Hayward Gallery (London), CA2M Centro de Arte dos de Mayo (Spain), The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture (Moscow), and MUSA (Vienna). Recent awards include The 2022 Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica Award For Computer Animation; The 2022 NEWFEST Emerging Black LGBTQ+ Filmmaker Award; The 2022 Bessie Award for Outstanding Choreographer/Creator and Outstanding Visual Design; The 2022 Berkeley FILM Foundation grant; The 2021 Knight Arts + Tech Fellowship; The 2020/2022 Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence artist residency; The 2020 Eyebeam Rapid Response Fellowship; The 2019, LACMA Art + Technology Lab Grant; The 2018, William Penn Foundation Grant; The 2017 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Inc.; and The 2011, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award.

Our {communityGuidelinesLink} describe the sort of content we prohibit on Eventbrite. If you suspect an event may be in violation, you can report it to us so we can investigate.

To report other categories of prohibited or illegal content, submit {link}

Rashaad Newsome: Engineers

More events from California College of the Arts

Discover more events from California College of the Arts, from Arts to other experiences you might love.

Still looking for the right event?

Explore all events in San Francisco and filter by date, category, and more to find the perfect fit.

Rashaad Newsome: Engineers

More events from California College of the Arts

Discover more events from California College of the Arts, from Arts to other experiences you might love.

More Arts events

Browse more Arts events with different dates, prices, and formats to find your next great experience.

Still looking for the right event?

Explore all events in San Francisco and filter by date, category, and more to find the perfect fit.