University of Arizona

VASE LECTURES

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Joey Fauerso

Thursday, March 28, 2024, 5:30 p.m. | Center for Creative Photography

‘Wait For It’

Fauerso will discuss her studio practice and exhibitions over the last ten years exploring themes of gender, family, humor, history painting, utopian experiments, and theatrical improvisation. She will discuss how collaboration, the integration of the domestic, and the intersections between painting and performance have been central to her creative work.

About Joey Fauerso

Joey Fauerso is an artist and 2022 Guggenheim Fellow in the Fine Arts and the recipient of the 2023 Presidential Seminar Award from Texas State University. Her work consists mostly of painting, video, installation and performance addressing issues of gender, humor and family. Recently her work has been exhibited at the Visual Arts Center at the University of Texas, the Galveston Art Center, Western Exhibitions Gallery, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, MASS MoCA, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Drawing Center in New York, and New Mexico State University Art Museum.

Fauerso has been the recipient of multiple grants and residencies, including a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2020 Joan Mitchell Grant for Painters and Sculptors, a 2021 Sustainable Arts Foundation grant, the Open Sessions residency at The Drawing Center in New York, the Golden Foundation Grant, Dallas Museum of Art Kimberough Grant, the RAIR artist in residence grant, Yaddo, MacDowell, and Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin Fauerso is a Professor in the School of Art and Design at Texas State University, and lives with her family in San Antonio, Texas.

Arizona Arts - Racial Justice Studio

2023-2024 Visiting Artists

Kelli Anderson

Kelli Anderson

Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, 5:30 p.m. | Center for Creative Photography
Joey Fauerso

Joey Fauerso

Thursday, March 28, 2024, 5:30 p.m. | Center for Creative Photography
Vincent Valdez

Vincent Valdez

Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023, 5:30 p.m. | Center for Creative Photography
Dr. Kim Cosier

Dr. Kim Cosier

Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023, 5:30 p.m. | Center for Creative Photography