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Stephanie J. Williams will tell us about her artistic practice, which bridges sculpture and animation. Her work navigates hierarchies of taste, unpacking how “official” histories are constructed in order to understand contemporary social coding.

Stephanie J. Williams is an interdisciplinary visual artist whose work has been exhibited in Fictions, part of the Studio Museum in Harlem’s F-show exhibitions, at the Walters Art Museum as a Sondheim Finalist, as well as with Washington Project for the Arts, Lawrence University, and the Delaware Contemporary. She has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, Sculpture Space, Williams College, the Nicholson Project, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and ACRE. Recent animated works have screened at Slamdance (2024), Ann Arbor Film Festival (2024), the New Orleans Film Festival (Best Animated Short, 2022), Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival (2023, Jury Citation – 2022), the Atlanta Film Festival (2023, 2024) and Outfest LA LGBTQIA+ Film Festival (2023). She has received grants from the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund at Johns Hopkins University and the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities. She received an MFA in sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design under a Presidential Scholarship and is currently full time faculty in Animation at Maryland Institute College of Art.

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