Creative Expressions: Potpourri
of Prize-winning Prose, Public Art, and Personal Practice
Thursday, June 4, 2020
The SUNY Empire community has a
rich and varied artist community. Come and meet our faculty, staff, student,
and alumni artists to learn a little about their creative expressions, their
process, and them. Our artists host a Q&A session following their
presentations/performances. Featured on Thursday,
June 4, will be a
reading from The Masters Review Fall 2019 Fiction Contest winning story
"Salt-Sea" by Zeeva Bukai; a presentation on a public art project in
Plattsburgh by Anastasia Pratt; and the sharing of art as personal healing and
a meditative practice by student Oju Ayọ.
Join us
this week and every week in Zoom at this link - https://bit.ly/CreativeExpressionSeries.
Weekly
host: Lisa D’Adamo-Weinstein
Note: If you missed our
previous sessions or cannot make it this week, all of the sessions are recorded. Check them out.
Anastasia
Pratt (public art), teaches Public
History courses at SUNY Empire State College and also works with the Upward
Bound program. She serves as the Clinton County historian and has authored
several books. Music has always been a constant theme in her life. She began
playing the bass when she was 10 and started singing even earlier.
Enjoying many different genres of music, throughout her life she has performed
in a wide variety of instrumental and choral groups, including several local
chamber and pit orchestras.
Zeeva Bukai (author) was born in Israel and raised in New
York City. Her work has appeared in The Master’s Review where she won the Fall
Fiction Contest judged by Anita Felicelli, McSweeny’s Quarterly Concern, Image
Journal, December Magazine where she won the Curt Johnson Prose award judged by
Lily King, jewishfiction.net, and the anthology, “Out of Many: Multiplicity and
Division in America Today.”
Her honors include an
Emerging Writer’s Fellowship at the NY Center for Fiction, and artist
residencies at Hedgebrook on Whidbey Island, WA, and Byrdcliff Artist Colony in
Woodstock NY. She holds an MFA from Brooklyn College and is an academic support
specialist at SUNY Empire State College. She is represented by Jessica Salky at
Salky Literary Management. You can reach her at: zeevabukai.com
Oju Ayọ
(artist) is a member of SUNY Empire State College's Class of 2020, having just
completed her Bachelor's of Arts Degree.
Oju Ayọ took a concentration of psychology classes to further explore
the ways art can be used to ease and heal the mind. Within weeks of handing in
her final assignment at SUNY Empire State College, Oju Ayọ self-published a
series of adult coloring books released by IngramSpark on March 31, 2020
serendipitously available as an offering for those looking for quarantine
activities. To find out more about her work, visit OJUAYO.COM.
