Please join us for an online Artist Talk with Anaïs Duplan: author; postcolonial literature professor at Bennington College; trans and neuroqueer meditation teacher; and founding curator of the Center for Afrofuturist Studies, a residency & incubator for BIPOC artists who explore race & technology.

Anaïs’ talk will focus on the idea of sustaining creative practice by incorporating mindfulness and intuitive work practices. He will speak on ways that a long term art practice might change over time, and how to respond to change authentically. He will highlight a variety of forms of mindfulness practices that can help, in myriad ways, for staying creative over long periods.

Anaïs Duplan is a trans* poet, curator, and artist. He is the author of the book I NEED MUSIC; Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture; Take This Stallion; and the chapbook, Mount Carmel and the Blood of Parnassus. He was a 2017-2019 joint Public Programs fellow at the MoMA and the Studio Museum in Harlem, and in 2021 received a Marian Goodman fellowship from Independent Curators International for his research on Black experimental documentary. In 2016, he founded the Center for Afrofuturist Studies, an artist residency program for artists of color, based at Iowa City’s artist-run organization Public Space One. He is the recipient of the 2021 QUEER|ART|PRIZE for Recent Work, and a 2022 Whiting Award in Nonfiction. Duplan is a professor of postcolonial literature at Bennington College, and has taught poetry at The New School, Columbia University, and Sarah Lawrence College, and others.