ICA is proud to host the PennDesign Fine Arts Lecture Series, presented in conjunction with the School of Design, Department of Fine Arts. All lectures will be held at 6:30PM in the ICA Auditorium and are free and open to the public. More information can be found on the PennDesign Events page.

Sable Elyse Smith is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator based in New York & Richmond Virginia. Her work has been featured at the Museum of Modern Art, MoMA Ps1, New Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, SIGNAL Gallery, Rachel Uffner Gallery, and Recess Assembly, New York; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and Artist Television Access, San Francisco, CA; Birkbeck Cinema in collaboration with the Serpentine Galleries, London. Her writing has been published in Radical Teacher, Studio Magazine and Affidavit and she is currently working on her first book. Smith has received awards from Creative Capital, Fine Arts Work Center, the Queens Museum, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, the Franklin Furnace Fund, and Art Matters. She is currently Assistant Professor of Sculpture & Extended Media at the University of Richmond.