Handwerker Gallery at Ithaca College is pleased to host Susanne Slavick for an artist talk on Thursday of this week in conjunction with her exhibition up in the air, in deep water, on shaky ground, a solo exhibition on view through October 13th.
Slavick will offer her artist talk in the Handwerker Gallery on September 12th from 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Susanne Slavick is an artist, curator and University Professor of Art Emerita at Carnegie Mellon University where she served as Head of the School of Art from 2000-06 and taught from 1984-2022. In 2019, she was awarded the Distinguished Teaching of Art Award from the College Art Association.
Slavick’s work has probed human conflict and environmental destruction, pursuing empathic unsettlement.Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in museums and galleries in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America, and Oceania. Awards have included a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and four grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Getting There, an exhibit with her husband and colleague Andrew Ellis Johnson, explores our response to immigrants and refugees. It has toured to four museums and galleries and will open next at SUNY Fredonia in 2026.
Slavick’s traveling curatorial projects have created forums for dialogue and advocacy around war and its aftermath (No Glory, Cutting Losses and Out of Rubble) and gun violence (Unloaded and Up in Arms). When the Bough Breaks and Family Tree visualize the tree under assault and triumphant, as historical record and harbinger of things to come.
Slavick’s articles have appeared in books and journals including Art, Advocacy, and Sexual Violence (University of Washington Press); Journal of Visual Culture; Technology and Culture;Cairo: Images of Transition (Verlag); Hyperallergic; and Cultural Politics. An essay she co-wrote with Andrew Ellis Johnson will be published this fall in Interrogating the Visual Culture of Trumpism (Routledge).
