May 12, 10:30 AM: Stop Telling Women to Smile @ UChicago

Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, creator of the Stop Telling Women to Smile social-art series, will be at the University of Chicago May 12-14 for a three-day artist-in-residency program. This program will use social-art practice to address issues of sexual- harassment and misconduct. Tatyana will be giving a lecture, leading workshops, and using wheat paste to exhibit her work. Tatyana is an oil-painter and illustrator based in Brooklyn. In protest of the routine street harassment artist she experienced, she wheat pasted a self-portrait with the caption “STOP TELLING WOMEN TO SMILE” around her neighborhood. That portrait initiated "Stop Telling Women to Smile," an art series in which Tatyana talks to women about their experiences with harassment and uses these conversations as inspiration for captioned portraits. The portraits are posted in public spaces, allowing women to speak directly to offenders in the space where they have previously felt marginalized. Since its creation in 2012, Stop Telling Women to Smile has traveled to walls in countless U.S. cities, Mexico City, and Paris. Most recently, Tatyana was commissioned to paint portraits of BET's‪#‎BlackGirlsRock celebrants: Amandla Stenberg, Danai Gurira, Shonda Rhimes, Gladys Knight, Rihanna, Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi. THURSDAY, MAY 12 10:30am-12pm Workshop* CSGS lower level seminar room Open to cis and trans- females Capacity: 30 people RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stop-telling-women-to-smile-tatyana-fazlalizadeh-artist-in-residency-female-only-workshop-tickets-24688770778 Late-afternoon: Tatyana works on posters 6:30pm: Lecture @ Knapp Center open to all FRIDAY, MAY 13 10:30am-12pm: Workshop* Open to all genders CSGS 1st floor event space Capacity: 30 people RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stop-telling-women-to-smile-tatyana-fazlalizadeh-artist-in-residency-open-workshop-tickets-24878742990 Late-afternoon: Tatyana works on posters 5:00-6:30pm: Study Break w/ Tatyana CSGS 1st floor event space Evening: Wheat pasting on campus and in Hyde Park SATURDAY, MAY 14 Early Morning: Volunteer breakfast Morning: Wheatpasting in Washington Park (near Arts Incubator) * starred events will have SADOC nearby in case of emergency

Starts: May 12, 2016
Ends: May 14, 2016
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

See:https://www.facebook.com/STWTSUChicago/