Faculty Presentation: Andrea Lawlor, Ilana Savdie
Wednesday, June 24, 2026
5-7 PM
Stanley Kunitz Common Room
Join us for a summer faculty reading and artist talk with writer Andrea Lawlor and artist Ilana Savdie.
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About Our Speakers
Andrea Lawlor is the author of two chapbooks, Position Papers (Factory Hollow Press, 2016), and Position Papers (Belladonna*, 2024), as well as a novel, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl (Rescue Press, 2017; Vintage, 2019; Picador UK, 2019). Their stories, essays, and poems have appeared in publications such as Ploughshares, The Brooklyn Rail, jubilat, and The New York Times. They are the recipient of a Whiting Award for Fiction and the Prix Sade, as well as fellowships from Lambda Literary, Radar Labs, the Ucross Foundation, and Macdowell. They teach writing at Mount Holyoke College, and live in Western Massachusetts.
Ilana Savdie (b. 1986, Miami, FL; raised between Miami and Colombia) is a Brooklyn-based artist whose large-scale, visceral paintings explore themes of performance, excess, survival, and transgression. Through fragmented and contorted forms, intoxicating color and uncanny textures, Savdie’s paintings reflect on psychological and societal responses to collective crisis, probing the tension between individual agency and systemic power. Solo exhibitions include ‘Radical Contractions’ at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and ‘Glottal Stop’ at White Cube New York. Savdie was a recipient of the 2025 Creative Capital Award. Prominent museum collections include Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Hammer Museum in Los Angeles; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, The Jewish Museum in New York and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
