{"id":16,"date":"2017-03-17T16:52:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T16:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/storytellers\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2021-01-20T15:51:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T15:51:05","slug":"fellows","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/storytellers\/past-years\/2017-storytellers-institute\/fellows\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 Visiting Fellows"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each summer the Storytellers’ Institute hosts four documentary artists.\u00a0 In 2017, the Institute welcomes Betty Yu, Daesha Dev\u00f3n Harris, Gedney Barclay and Asa Horvitz, Harjant Gill.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>BETTY YU<\/a><\/h4>\n

Betty Yu is a Chinese-American NYC based filmmaker, multi-media artist, media educator and social justice activist. Her works\u00a0have shown at\u00a0national and international film festivals including the Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival and Tribeca Film Institute\u2019s Interactive 2014.\u00a0She is<\/span>\u00a0the recipient of the Union Square Award for grassroots activism and a semi-finalist of the National Brick \u201cDo Something\u201d Award for community leadership in Chinatown. She holds a B.F.A. from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and a M.F.A. from Hunter College…<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"DAESHA DEVON HARRIS<\/a><\/h4>\n

Daesha Dev\u00f3n Harris, a Saratoga Springs native and documentary photographer, creates powerful multimedia pieces that speak to social issues in a creative and compelling way. Her\u00a0photos depict subjects not as victims, instead showing them in a light of determination that illuminates Daesha’s relentless optimism. Harris discusses her practice, which includes individual and collective portraits of African-American and other often-unrecognized communities in Saratoga Springs, and use of archival and historical research and images…<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"GEDNEY BARCLAY & ASA HORVITZ<\/a><\/h4>\n

Gedney Barclay and Asa Horvitz’s collaboration goes back ten years, beginning with the founding of an experimental performance group at Wesleyan University. Since then they have made a number of large-scale performances together on both coasts of the US as well as individually presented performances, concerts, and exhibitions across the US and Europe. Their work weaves firsthand testimony with music, film, and performance to explore the role of ideology, imagination, and fantasy in contemporary life…<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"HARJANT GILL<\/a><\/h4>\n

Harjant Gill is an award-winning filmmaker and visual\u00a0anthropologist whose work casts a spotlight on urgent and often overlooked social issues, helping\u00a0marginalized members of society feel less isolated and more understood. Gill\u2019s research and films explore the intersections of gender, sexuality, religion, citizenship, transnationality, and notions of belonging with a particular focus on Indian and diasporic masculinities. Gill studied visual anthropology at San Francisco State University and has\u00a0a PhD in Anthropology from American University…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Each summer the Storytellers’ Institute hosts four documentary artists.\u00a0 In 2017, the Institute welcomes Betty Yu, Daesha Dev\u00f3n Harris, Gedney Barclay and Asa Horvitz, Harjant Gill. BETTY YU Betty Yu is a Chinese-American NYC based filmmaker, multi-media artist, media educator and social justice activist. Her works\u00a0have shown at\u00a0national and international …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14,"parent":554,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/storytellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/storytellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/storytellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/storytellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/storytellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/storytellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3268,"href":"https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/storytellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/3268"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/storytellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/storytellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/storytellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}