Mills College Art Museum, Sita Bhaumik – Artist Lecture

7:00 PM, DANFORTH LECTURE HALL

Join us for an artist talk with Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik, an Oakland-based artist, writer, and educator who uses art as a strategy to connect memory and history with the urgent social issues of our time. In addition to her artistic practice, Bhaumik will discuss her forthcoming book We Make Constellations of the Stars, which interrogates not only what makes an artist an artist, but how connection is crucial for personal and political transformation as an artist of color. Part of the 2022-2023 Art Lecture Series at Mills College at Northeastern University.

Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik is an artist, writer, and educator who uses art as a strategy to connect memory and history with the urgent social issues of our time. Her work focuses on decolonization, the hierarchy of the senses, and the impact of migration. Raised in Los Angeles, Tongva Land, and based in Oakland, Ohlone Land, she is Indian and Japanese Colombian American. Sita is a founding member of the People’s Kitchen Collective in Oakland, California along with Jocelyn Jackson and Saqib Keval. Sita holds a BA in Studio Art from Scripps College, an MFA in interdisciplinary art and an MA in Visual and Critical Studies from California College of the Arts.