Interdisciplinary artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh will present the next Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist and Scholar lecture at 5:30 p.m. April 24 in Richards Hall, Room 15. The lecture is free and open to the public.

The School of Art, Art History and Design’s Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series brings notable artists, scholars and designers to Nebraska each semester to enhance the education of students.

Fazlalizadeh is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist working primarily in painting, public art and multimedia installation.

She is from Oklahoma City and was born to a Black mother and Iranian father. Fazlalizadeh, whose social practice is rooted in Black feminist praxis, considers image-making as a site of protest, contestation, affirmation and possibility. She makes site-specific work that considers how people, particularly women and Black folks, experience race and gender within their surrounding physical environments.

Fazlalizadeh is the creator of “Stop Telling Women to Smile,” an international series that tackles gender-based street harassment by centering intersectionality in public art and is the author of “Stop Telling Women to Smile: Stories of Street Harassment and How We’re Taking Back Our Power.”

Fazlalizadeh has lectured about her work and methodology at institutions such as The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, as well as several schools, including Brown, Pratt, Stanford and The New School.

Fazlalizadeh has been profiled by The New York Times, NPR, the New Yorker and Time Magazine. She is a Forbes Under 30 lister, a Mellon Foundation Fellow and in 2018, she became the inaugural Public Artist in Residence for the New York City Commission on Human Rights.

Underwritten by the Hixson-Lied Endowment with additional support from other sources, the series enriches the culture of the state by providing a way for Nebraskans to interact with luminaries in the fields of art, art history and design. Each visiting artist or scholar spends one to three days on campus to meet with classes, participate in critiques and give demonstrations.

For more information on the series, contact the School of Art, Art History and Design at 402-472-5522 or e-mail schoolaahd@unl.edu.