MFA Fine Arts presents a talk by a new program faculty member, Sheetal Prajapati.

Sheetal Prajapati is a Brooklyn-based educator and artist administrator. Her work as an educator explores the possibilities for public engagement that emerge from collaboration, experimentation and interdisciplinary practice. Her studio practice explores notions of intimacy, identity and cultural histories as a means to consider our relationship to the material world. Currently, she is working on writing project examining notions of otherness in the United States.

Most recently, Sheetal has held residencies at the Wassaic Project (New York, 2018), Haystack Mountain School of Craft (Maine, 2017) and the Arquetopia Foundation (Mexico, 2016), amongst others. Until September 2018, she served as the first director of public engagement at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn. Previously, she held programming positions at The Museum of Modern Art (New York), Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and the Block Museum of Art (Northwestern University). From 2014 – 2016, Sheetal co-curated Open Engagement, an international conference on art and social practice. Prior to joining the faculty of School of Visual Arts (New York) this year, Sheetal taught in the MFA programs at Montclair State University (New Jersey) and Moore College of Art and Design (Pennsylvania). She received her BA from Northwestern University (History & Gender Studies) and her MA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Talk

Sheetal Prajapati

Room 101C