Clarissa Sligh has lectured and taught at institutions throughout the United States, including New York University, New York; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester; The School of the International Center of Photography, New York; School of the Art Institute of Chicago; School of Visual Arts, New York; Southern Methodist University, Dallas; Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis; Penland School of Crafts, North Carolina.

If you are interested in a lecture or workshop for your group or organization, email:
clarissa.sligh@gmail.com

LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS

Past Visiting Artist Seminars and Workshops include:

• Penland School of Crafts, “From Inner to Outer,” Collaboration with Teresah Arthur, Penland, NC, July 22-August 7, 2007.
• Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY, “The Constructed Image,” August 10-14, 2005.
• Holy Cross College, Worcester, MA, Workshop, “Getting Personal with Clarissa Sligh,” February 19-21, 2004.
• Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, “The Idea of the Portrait,” July 5-July 9, 2004.
• School of Visual Arts, MFA Seminar, New York, NY, February 28, 2002.
• Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee, WI, Workshop “Performance for Camera: Race, Gender and Art,” March 10, 2001.
• Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, “Experimental Portraiture,” June 25-July 7, 2000.
• Graduate Photography Seminar, Maryland Institute, Baltimore, MD, April 15, 1999.
• The Latin American Center, Washington, DC, Experimental Photography Workshop with Young People, August, 1997.
• Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Village, CO, Workshop, Reframing the Past – Connecting Your Life to Your Art, August 6-11, 1995.
• Dia Center for the Arts, New York, NY, Public Teachers Training Program, April 14, 1995.
• International Center of Photography, New York, NY, Workshop, Reframing the Past – Connecting Your Life to Your Art, April 1-9, 1995.
• Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Workshop, Reframing Family Snapshots, January 7, 1995.
• Carleton College, Northfield, MN, Dayton Hudson Distinguished Visiting Artist/Teacher, Spring 1992.
• The Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minneapolis, MN, Visiting Artist Faculty, Spring 1988-89.

Past Lectures and Presentations include:

“Body Matters,” The Thirteenth Annual New Jersey Book Arts Symposium, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, November 2, 2007.

“Perceptions of Difference: Jake in Transition from Female to Male,” University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, March 1, 2007.

“Jake in Transition from Female to Male: Traces of a Photographic Transaction,” Performing Gender: Women’s Studies Interdisciplinary Conference, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, February 24, 2007.

Lecture for Jake in Transition exhibition, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, January 22, 2007.

“Jake in Transition from Female to Male,” Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, September 8, 2006.

“Coming to Terms with Difference,” Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA, May 22, 2006.

Lecture for Image & Text: Writing Off The Page series, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, March 1, 2006.

“Rebirth and Transformation,” talk with young women formerly incarcerated, International Center of Photography & Friends of Island Academy, May 25, 2005.

“Autobiographies,” Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, February 23, 2005.

“When and Where I Enter,” Holy Cross College, Worcester, MA, February 19, 2004.

Sweet Briar College, Amherst, VA, February 18, 2004.

“Visual Artists as Writers: Sharing the Creative Process,” Women’s Studio Center, L.I.C., NY, April 5, 2003.

Lecture about my work, Columbia University, New York, NY, January 31, 2002.

“Creating a Cultural History,” Forum of Scholars and Visual Artists, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX. October 19, 2001.

“Contemporary Portraits,” James A. Porter Colloquium on African American Art, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC, April 8, 2000.

“Refocusing the Frame: Making the Invisible Visible,” Douglass Library, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, April 5, 2000.

“Developing my Personal Identity and Meaning Through the Photographic Image: Exploring the Legacy of the 1960s,” The Ninth Annual James A. Porter Colloquium on African American Art, Howard University, Washington, DC, April 16, 1998.

“Re-Priming the Social Self,” Rhode Island College Art Center, Providence, RI, October 23, 1997.

“New Masculinities: Cultural Representations,” Society for Photographic Education National Conference, Dallas, TX, March 8, 1997.

Dialogue with feminist writer bell hooks, “Women and Representation”, International Center for Photography, New York, NY, December 4, 1995.

“Artist’s Talk,”  Galerie Junge Kunst, Trier, Germany, September 4, 1995.

“Back Talk: An Artists’ Forum on Art and Activism,” High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, August 3, 1994.

“Politically Engaged, Politically Enraged: Artists & Social Change,” The New School, New York, NY, March 1, 1994.

Frames of Reference: Cultural Diversity and the Arts, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, November 20, 1993.

“The Artist As Witness”, The Drawing Center, New York, NY, June 27, 1991.

“Reframing Photography,” the American Photography Institute National Graduate Seminar, New York University, New York, NY, May 31, 1991.

“Reframing the Past” (1989-1993: selected sites)

• Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA.
• Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.
• Colgate University, Hamilton, NY.

• The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
• Port Washington Public Library, Port Washington, NY.
• The School of Visual Arts, New York, NY.
• The University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME.
• Southern Autobiography Conference, The University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR.
• International Center of Photography, New York, NY.
• Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KN.
• Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.
• Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA.
• Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN.