Meg Onli: Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series

Join us live for a virtual lecture by curator Meg Onli followed by an audience Q&A. This event is free and open to the public, and registration is not required.

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Meg Onli (BFA 2008) is the Andrea B. Laporte Associate Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She has curated the exhibitions Speech/Acts (2017) and Colored People Time (2019). In the Summer of 2020, she founded the initiative Art for Philadelphia, which raised more than $100,000 for community-led abolitionist organizations. Currently, Onli is working on the solo exhibition Jessica Vaughn: Our Primary Focus is to be Successful (2021) and co-curating with Erin Christovale a retrospective of Ulysses Jenkins's work, Ulysses Jenkins: Without Your Interpretation (2021).

Presented in partnership with SAIC Alumni Relations. This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.

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Image: Colored People Time, 2020, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. Photo: Derek Rigby. Hand model: Michele Pierson.