Fatimah Tuggar

The Muncie Arts and Culture Council, in partnership with the Ball State School of Art, is thrilled to welcome multidisciplinary artist Fatimah Tuggar for a virtual artist lecture. Registration is required for this lecture through Eventbrite. Space is limited and the lecture will not be recorded.

Tuggar will incorporate some augmented reality into her lecture. Please consider downloading her free app, Home Horizons, from the app store for an enhanced lecture experience.

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about fatimah tuggar:

Multidisciplinary artist Fatimah Tuggar was born in Nigeria and raised there and in the United Kingdom. She has studied, lived, and worked in the US since the late '80s. Her work uses technology as both medium and subject to serve as metaphors for power dynamics. She combines objects, images, and sounds from diverse cultures, geographies, and histories to comment on how media and technology diversely impact local and global realities.

Tuggar's work has been widely exhibited at international venues in over twenty-five countries on five continents including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, US; Museum Kunst-Palast, Dusseldorf, Germany; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; the 24th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Moscow Biennale in Russia; the V Salon CANTV Jovenes, Venezuela, the Istanbul Biennial, Turkey; the Kwangju Biennale, South Korea; Bamako Biennale, Mali; and the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa.

Tuggar's art education covers three continents and a broader range of disciplines, traditions, processes, and materials. Her work has been the subject of various panels and articles. Her body of work has also been integrated as parts of academic curricula, in multiple disciplines and discussions, including technology, new media, politics, cultural studies, feminism, diaspora, anthropology, social justice, sculpture, interactive media, photography, and video among others.

Tuggar has been teaching in higher education for a decade and a half. Her students have gone on to have productive careers in art and technology. She has contributed to academic journals and books such as the Winter 2017 Volume 50 of the African Arts Journal, "Methods, Making, and West African Influences in the Work of Fatimah Tuggar" and her 2013 visual essay "Montage as a Tool of Political Visual Realignment" in the Visual Communications Journal on "The Ethics of Images." To date, Tuggar has also contributed to fields of art and education with over a hundred lectures, artist talks and workshops at numerous institutions globally.

She has been a recipient of awards and commissions including fellowships from the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University and Civitella Ranieri, Umbertide, Umbria, Italy. She has produced commissioned works for Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York; Nordic Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark; and the Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence, Kansas, among others. Tuggar has received many accolades including the 2003 Prix Special du Jury at Les Rencontres in Bamako, Mali; the Young with FIA Award in Caracas, Venezuela in 2002 and a 2008 W. A. Mellon Research Fellowship.

This lecture is hosted by the Ball State University School of Art Inclusive Excellence Committee, in partnership with the Muncie Arts and Culture Council, and sponsored by the Ball State University School of Art.