{"events":[{"id":6745,"global_id":"www.wcsu.edu\/svpca?id=6745","global_id_lineage":["www.wcsu.edu\/svpca?id=6745"],"author":"1","status":"publish","date":"2026-01-13 22:33:52","date_utc":"2026-01-13 22:33:52","modified":"2026-04-29 02:00:37","modified_utc":"2026-04-29 02:00:37","url":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/svpca\/event\/visiting-artist-lecture-hangama-amiri-interdisciplinary-artist\/","rest_url":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/svpca\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/events\/6745","title":"Visiting Artist Lecture &#8211; Hangama Amiri, Interdisciplinary Artist","description":"<div>WCSU MFA Visiting Artist Lecture with Hangama Amiri, Interdisciplinary Artist<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 20px\">\n<div style=\"margin: 20px 10px;font-size: 15px;line-height: 22px;font-weight: 400;text-align: left\">\n<h3><strong><\/strong><strong>Visiting Artist Lecture with<\/strong><br \/><strong><\/strong><strong>HANGAMA AMIRI, <\/strong><strong><\/strong><strong>INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTIST<\/strong><br \/>Monday, April 29, 2026, 11:00 am<\/h3>\n<p><strong><\/strong><strong>Visual &amp; Performing Arts Center, room 144, <\/strong><strong><\/strong><strong>WCSU, Westside Campus<\/strong><br \/>Free &amp; Open to the Public . Limited Seating Available<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Hangama Amiri, born in Peshawar, Pakistan, is an Afghan-Canadian artist. She works predominantly in textiles to explore ideas of home and the impact of gender, social norms, and geopolitical conflict on women&#8217;s lives in Afghanistan and the diaspora. Using a painterly approach to color and materials, she examines how everyday objects, such as a passport, a vase, and celebrity postcards, are imbued with cultural memory and carry political and personal significance.<\/p>\n<p>Hangama earned her MFA from Yale University in 2020. She received her BFA from NSCAD University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and was a Canadian Fulbright and Post-Graduate Fellow at Yale\u2019s School of Arts and Sciences in 2015-2016. Last year, she was shortlisted for the 2025 Sobey Art Award, Canada\u2019s premier contemporary visual arts prize, in an exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Hangama\u2019s work has been shown nationally and internationally since 2017, with solo shows in the U.S., Canada, Italy, France, Germany, and the UK. Recent exhibitions include the Esker Foundation, Calgary; Toronto Biennial 2024; M\u00f6nchehaus Museum Goslar, Germany; Aga Khan Museum, Toronto; and Sharjah Biennial 15, United Arab Emirates. In 2023, her solo exhibition <em><\/em><em>A Homage to Home<\/em> was held at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, CT, with a published catalog. It was reviewed by <em><\/em><em>The New York Times<\/em>, and traveled to the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City. Hangama is a recipient of multiple grants, awards, and artist residencies, along with work in public collections, including the Denver Art Museum.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","excerpt":"","slug":"visiting-artist-lecture-hangama-amiri-interdisciplinary-artist","image":{"url":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/svpca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/123\/2026\/02\/d0db3b06b47c13a742b04a33a1986ea9.jpg","id":6857,"extension":"jpg","width":962,"height":1152,"filesize":181107,"sizes":{"medium":{"width":251,"height":300,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":16876,"url":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/svpca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/123\/2026\/02\/d0db3b06b47c13a742b04a33a1986ea9-251x300.jpg"},"large":{"width":855,"height":1024,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":141287,"url":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/svpca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/123\/2026\/02\/d0db3b06b47c13a742b04a33a1986ea9-855x1024.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"width":150,"height":150,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":6667,"url":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/svpca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/123\/2026\/02\/d0db3b06b47c13a742b04a33a1986ea9-150x150.jpg"},"medium_large":{"width":768,"height":920,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":118891,"url":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/svpca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/123\/2026\/02\/d0db3b06b47c13a742b04a33a1986ea9-768x920.jpg"},"post-thumbnail":{"width":940,"height":198,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":42342,"url":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/svpca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/123\/2026\/02\/d0db3b06b47c13a742b04a33a1986ea9-940x198.jpg"}}},"all_day":false,"start_date":"2026-04-29 11:00:00","start_date_details":{"year":"2026","month":"04","day":"29","hour":"11","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"end_date":"2026-04-29 12:00:00","end_date_details":{"year":"2026","month":"04","day":"29","hour":"12","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_start_date":"2026-04-29 15:00:00","utc_start_date_details":{"year":"2026","month":"04","day":"29","hour":"15","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_end_date":"2026-04-29 16:00:00","utc_end_date_details":{"year":"2026","month":"04","day":"29","hour":"16","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"timezone":"America\/New_York","timezone_abbr":"EDT","cost":"","cost_details":{"currency_symbol":"","currency_code":"","currency_position":"","values":[]},"website":"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/visiting-artist-lecture-hangama-amiri-interdisciplinary-artist-registration-1980479671009","show_map":false,"show_map_link":false,"hide_from_listings":false,"sticky":false,"featured":false,"categories":[],"tags":[],"venue":{"id":6744,"status":"publish","date":"2026-01-13 22:33:52","date_utc":"2026-01-13 22:33:52","modified":"2026-04-29 02:00:37","modified_utc":"2026-04-29 02:00:37","url":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/svpca\/venue\/visual-performing-arts-center-276\/","venue":"Visual &amp; Performing Arts Center","slug":"visual-performing-arts-center-276","address":"43 Lake Avenue Extension","city":"Danbury","country":"United States","province":"CT","state":"CT","zip":"06811","stateprovince":"CT","show_map":true,"show_map_link":true,"global_id":"www.wcsu.edu\/svpca?id=6744","global_id_lineage":["www.wcsu.edu\/svpca?id=6744"]},"organizer":[{"id":2167,"status":"publish","date":"2024-06-25 20:28:22","date_utc":"2024-06-25 20:28:22","modified":"2026-04-29 19:33:14","modified_utc":"2026-04-29 19:33:14","url":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/svpca\/organizer\/visual-performing-arts-center-at-wcsu-2\/","organizer":"Visual &amp; Performing Arts Center at WCSU","slug":"visual-performing-arts-center-at-wcsu-2","website":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/svpa\/","global_id":"www.wcsu.edu\/svpca?id=2167","global_id_lineage":["www.wcsu.edu\/svpca?id=2167"]}],"custom_fields":[],"decoded_title":"Visiting Artist Lecture \u2013 Hangama Amiri, Interdisciplinary Artist","is_virtual":false,"virtual_url":null,"virtual_video_source":""}],"rest_url":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/svpca\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/events\/?page=1&per_page=10&start_date=2026-04-29+00%3A00%3A00&end_date=2028-04-29+23%3A59%3A59&status=publish&venue=6744","total":1,"total_pages":1}