Ithaca College

Nydia Blas, Artist, MFA, presents: "The Girls Who Spun Gold" on Thursday, September 22, 2016 at 6 PM at Handwerker Gallery

Nydia Blas is a visual artist living in Ithaca, New York with her two children. She primarily works with photography, video, and books as mediums to explore and present her ideas concerning lived experience, history, and imposed constructs. She holds a B.S. from Ithaca College, and received her M.F.A. from Syracuse University in the school of Visual and Performing Arts.  Her current series, The Girls That Spun Gold, is a collection of photographs, collage, zines, and video.  Blas employs these forms to complicate notions of being in a gendered, racialized, and sexualized body, focusing on young girls as they negotiate the thin line between child and woman.

Calling upon the tradition of African-American folklore as a means to express the common knowledge, experience, and sentiments of the group rather than the individual, Blas delicately weaves a story that speaks to circumstance, value, and power.

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