SUNY New Paltz Art Lecture Series – Jaz Graf

JAZ GRAF will give a FREE public lecture on her research in hand papermaking, including a recent trip to Thailand, living at a monastery and making paper from worn Buddhist monk robes. Graf’s presentation will also feature creative and community projects of her transdiciplinary art practice incorporating printmaking, book arts and installation. All are welcome. 

Wednesday, February 19th, 2025 from 11-12 noon at SUNY NEW PALTZ  –

Location – Lecture Center 104 (Wheelchair accessible entrance and parking lot)

Parking info: Visitors can use campus vending machines to purchase a parking permit to park on campus.

*Parking by the Hopfer Admissions Center is recommended, as it has a big lot and is a short walking distance to the Lecture Center and nearby Dorsky Museum.  https://www.newpaltz.edu/parking/lots.html 

Campus map –  https://www.newpaltz.edu/map/ 

About the artist:

Jaz Graf delves through the meaning of familial roots, reimagining humanity’s relationship to earth. Graf juxtaposes representations of the actual and the virtual, as she ruminates on our connection to place, the location of identity, and the paradox of presence. Graf’s projects and collaborations include pulping Buddhist monk robes into books, advocating for transboundary rivers through photography, and publicizing voices of neuro-divergent BIPOC artists. She celebrates hybrid modes of being and alterity by contemporizing cross-cultural narratives.

Her work has appeared at The Newark Museum of Art, in AM New York News and on PBS TV. Graf is a recipient of the NJ State Council of the Arts Fellowship, Newark Creative Catalyst, Dieu Donné West Bay View Fellowship, Salzberg Book Arts Residency and Civil Society Institute Fellowship. Graf holds a MA from the University of Notre Dame and a MFA in Printmaking from the University of Iowa.

Website: www.jazgraf.com 

Instagram: @jazgraf

Artsy: https://www.artsy.net/artist/jaz-graf