Ithaca College

The Center for Faculty Excellence is pleased to host Ithaca College Community Artists each Friday at 5pm. In a mere 15-20 minutes, learn what our community brings to the arts, and the invariable ways art invigorates our lives. This week’s guest is G’Ra Asim.

To gain the Zoom link, send a message to Gordon Rowland (rowland@ithaca.edu).

G’Ra Asim received his MFA in Nonfiction Writing from Columbia University in 2018. Most recently, he worked as Writing Director at the African American Policy Forum at Columbia Law School. His first book, Boyz n the Void: A Mixtape to My Brother (forthcoming from Beacon Press in 2021), blends music criticism, cultural criticism, and personal essay and explores race, gender, class, and sexuality as they pertain to participating in punk rock and straight edge culture. “For my students, I want to convey this sense that art is in a continuous, eternal conversation with other art, so that they might thoughtfully carve out a place for themselves within it."