The MassArt Graduate Programs are thrilled to welcome Falaks Vasa to the MFA Summer Lecture Series, as a guest speaker of the 2024 summer program. Vasa will present a visiting artist talk in the Design and Media Center Lecture Hall on Thursday, July 18 at 4:30pm.

Falaks Vasa (they/she, b. 1995) is an interdisciplinary artist, emerging writer and award-winning educator from Kolkata, India. Falaks graduated from Brown University with an MFA in literary arts in 2023 and from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a BFA in 2018. She has also attended artist residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Artists’ Cooperative Residency & Exhibitions (ACRE). They have published a chapbook of poetry with the unnamed zine project, won the Archambault Award for Teaching Excellence from Brown University and have shown their artwork internationally at spaces like the Queer Arts Festival, Vancouver; the Queens Museum, NYC; and BARTALK, The Hague.

The MFA Summer Lecture Series is an integral part of MassArt's Low-Residency MFA Program in Interdisciplinary Practice. In addition to their public talks, guest speakers meet with students for 1:1 studio visits / feedback sessions. All lectures are free, open to the broader MassArt community and the public, and presented in person.

Questions? Contact gradprogram@massart.edu.

Image ©2024 Falaks Vasa