Los Angeles, CA | Studio Visits with Julia Haft-Candell & Silvi Naçi at the Feminist Center for Creative Work

Join ArtTable for two studio visits at the Feminist Center for Creative Work!

Julia Haft-Candell remixes ancient techniques to write new narratives, which in turn change structures that seem set in stone. Each arm of her practice—her artwork, teaching, and writing—offers alternatives to traditional models of categorization, communication, language, and education. In 2019, Haft-Candell founded The Infinite School, a new framework for ceramic education, which she runs out of her studio in Los Angeles. Haft-Candell has received grants and residencies from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, New York, NY; Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME; the Yaddo Corporation, Saratoga Springs, NY; and the California Community Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, among other national and international organizations. Her work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, among other institutions. She has exhibited at the Miller Institute of Contemporary Art in Pittsburgh, the de Saisset Museum in Santa Clara, Inman Gallery, Houston, The Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, and Candice Madey, New York. Haft-Candell’s work has been written about in numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Artforum, and Art in America.

Silvi Naçi is a queer Albanian educator, artist, researcher, and writer working between Albania and Tongva and Chumash territory, colonized as Los Angeles. Their praxis engages the image and its politics across photography, performance, moving-image, text, weaving, drawing, and installation. Their work examines how the marginalized body is affected by an oppressive state, the subtle and violent ways that migration results from colonialism, and how processes of decolonization affect and reshape a people, the body, language, and possibilities of gender identity. 

Naçi holds a dual BFA in Fine Arts & Graphic Design from Suffolk University and an MFA in Photography & Media from California Institute of the Arts. They have exhibited works at Manifesta 14 Prishtina, XK; National Gallery of Art, Tirana, AL; The National Gallery of Kosovo, XK; Grand Hotel, Kosovo, XK; Other Places Art Fair, LA; Greater LA MFA Exhibition, LA; and is a recipient of the Tim Disney Excellence in Storytelling Prize and the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Travel Grant. Their writing on art criticism has been published in Artsy, East of Borneo, Contemporary Art Review LA, X-TRA, Big Red & Shiny, NKA Journal for Contemporary African Art, and Hunter Fashion Magazine. Naçi has participated in residency at MASS MoCA (North Adams, MA); Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art (Berlin, Germany); Elsewhere Museum and Residency (Greensboro, NC); Évora NAU (Évora, Portugal); Vermont Studio Center (VT); perfocraZe International Artist Residency (Kumasi, Ghana), and the Feminist Center for Creative Work residency (Los Angeles, CA). Naçi is a doctoral student in the Global Studies department at UCI. Find more info on their work at silverprojects.co or follow them on Instagram @silvi.naci.

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