Guest Faculty Lecture: Jasmine Wahi and Stephen Westfall

Aug 12, 2025 7PM-8PM

Schermer Meeting Hall

Sunday and Tuesday evenings, June through September, Anderson Ranch features a slideshow presentation by distinguished faculty members and visiting artists. These insightful talks dive into the artists’ inspiration, their creative process, and more.

This presentation is free and open to the public and is available in person or via livestream.

Registration is appreciated. All on-campus workshop students will be pre-registered for this event.

Speaker

Jasmine Wahi

Jasmine Wahi is the founder and co-director of Project for Empty Space, a nonprofit organization in New York City and Newark, NJ. Her multifaceted curatorial practice predominantly focuses on issues of femme empowerment, complicating binary structures within social discourses, and exploring multi-positional cultural identities through the lens of intersectional feminism. In 2023, she was honored by The Metropolitan Museum of Art for exemplary social impact work. In 2020, Wahi became the inaugural Holly Block Social Justice Curator at the Bronx Museum of the Arts.

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Stephen Westfall

Stephen Westfall received his MFA from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His work was represented by Lennon, Weinberg in New York from 1997 to 2019.  He is currently represented in New York by Alexandre Gallery.  He has had 50 solo exhibitions in the United States and Europe. Westfall’s are in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the Metropolitan Museum in New York; the Kemper Museum in Kansas City; the Louisiana Museum in Humleback, Denmark; the Munson Williams Proctor Museum in Utica; New York, the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Albertina Museum in Vienna, Austria; the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; the Library of Congress; the Museum of Art and Architecture at UC Santa Barbara;  the Santa Barbara Museum of Art; and the Zimmerli Museum at Rutgers University. Westfall’s own writing has been extensively published in such journals as Arts, Art in America, Flash Art, the Brooklyn Rail, and Bomb among others.  He was for years a Contributing Editor to Art in America.  He has also authored over a hundred gallery and museum catalog essays, most recently for octogenarian, Susan Fortgang’s critically acclaimed first solo exhibition at Eric Firestone Gallery. Westfall has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Nancy Graves Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation.  He received a Rome Prize Fellowship and spent a year at the American Academy in Rome during 2009-2010.  In 2024 he was given the Murray Reich Distinguished Artist Award by the New York Foundation for the Arts.  He has been given the title, Professor Emeritus at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, where he was Graduate Director from 2010 to 2015, and Undergraduate Director from 2020 to 2021; and a former lecturer and Painting Chair at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, where he taught for 32 years.  He has held Distinguished Chairs at Colgate University in 1999 and Princeton University in 2005.

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