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Ashon Crawley: Visiting Artist, Center for Public Art and Space

caption: Ashon CrawleyThis spring, the Center for Public Art and Space (CPAS) at Weitzman will host renowned writer, artist, and educator Ashon Crawley, C’03, as its 2022 visiting scholar artist. Dr. Crawley’s work explores the intersection of performance, blackness, queerness, and spirituality.

Dr. Crawley is author of Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility (Fordham University Press) and The Lonely Letters (Duke University Press), a winner of 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Nonfiction. He is the founder of Otherwise Arts Lab, an integrative arts space and experimental practice. A MacDowell interdisciplinary arts fellow and a New City Arts Initiative Fellow, Dr. Crawley has had his work presented at Second Street Gallery, Welcome Gallery, Bridge Projects and the California African American Museum. Dr. Crawley is an associate professor of religious studies and African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia.

“We are thrilled to invite Dr. Crawley back to Penn as a preeminent scholar-artist, a crucial and critical thinker on matters of public installation and engagement, and as an alum,” said Paul Farber, senior research scholar at CPAS and director of Monument Lab.

Dr. Crawley will visit campus for a public lecture on April 6, 2022.

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