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Mapping Our Way Home: A Conversation with Connie Zheng
Wed., Dec. 4 | 6-7 p.m.
Rothschild Performing Arts Center
The Harker School | Upper School Campus
500 Saratoga Ave., San Jose
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The Harker Speaker Series is proud to present this year’s Dickinson Artist-in-Residence, Connie Zheng. Zheng will be interviewed by Nidhi Gandhi ’11, curatorial and programs associate at San José Museum of Art. A Q&A will follow their chat, and a reception will be held afterwards.

This event is free to the public but reserved tickets are required.
Connie Zheng is a Chinese-born artist, writer and experimental filmmaker based out of the East Bay. She works with maps, seeds, food, environmental histories, speculative fiction, field recordings and hand-drawn animation. Her work has been exhibited and screened internationally, including at the Peabody Essex Museum (Salem, Mass.), the San Francisco Asian Art Museum, Sa Sa Art Projects (Phnom Penh), Framer Framed (Amsterdam) and Salt Beyoğlu (Istanbul). She has received fellowships and awards from the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, and the Puffin Foundation, among other organizations, and was a 2023 YBCA 100 awardee. Zheng’s work is held in the permanent collections of the Kadist Foundation and the David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford University, and has received press from Artforum, MUBI Notebook, Hyperallergic, The San Francisco Examiner, and KQED Arts. In 2021 she published a chapter in the Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change, and her essays have appeared in The Back Room at Small Press Traffic, SFMOMA’s Open Space and Errant Journal.

Learn more about Connie Zheng.

The Harker Speaker Series launched in 2008 to bring leaders and visionaries from a wide variety of fields to share their expertise or unique experiences with the community.

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