Event

Please join us for the Food for Thought Speaker Series in conversation with Piyali Bhattacharya, Artist-in-Residence Creative Writing Program at Penn

Talk title: "Making It: How to navigate the fine arts as an Asian American"

Description: The fine arts world is complicated enough at the outset: networking and internal savvy reign supreme. These factors are even more complicated for people from minority backgrounds. How can we talk about getting a foot in the door of the fine arts world, while also talking about supporting each other in that work? 

Bio: Piyali Bhattacharya’s short stories and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, The New York Times, and National Geographic, among other publications, and her novel regarding un/documented South Asian immigrants in New York has been supported by fellowships from Hedgebrook and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is the editor of the anthology Good Girls Marry Doctors: South Asian American Daughters on Obedience and Rebellion, which received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and an Independent Publisher Book Award. She holds a B.A. from Bryn Mawr College, an M.A. from SOAS—University of London, and an M.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin—Madison, where she was the winner of the Peter Straub Award for Fiction. She is currently an Artist-in-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing.  

Masks are required per University and City guidelines except when outside and socially distanced. Everyone must register on Penn Open Pass and sign in at the event per university regulations.  Free boxed lunch will be available to take away. The capacity of the room is 40 people please RSVP  here to join in person or please register here and join by Zoom.