Lectures on Tap - Art, Class, and Liberation!

📍 Location: Exact address given in confirmation email

🧠 Lecture: "Art, Class, and Liberation!"

🎤 Speaker: Dr. Ilk Yasha

How can art be liberatory? Join us for an evening with Dr. Ilk Yasha as he explores the powerful intersections of art, class structures, and political possibility. This lecture examines how artistic practice can operate not only as representation, but as resistance, solidarity, and social transformation.

Drawing on the writing and curatorial practice of Lucy Lippard, as well as histories of conceptual art, feminist organizing, and working-class cultural production, Dr. Yasha will highlight how artists have challenged economic exclusion and cultural hierarchy. Moving between institutional critique and socially engaged practices, he asks: Who is art for? Who gets access, authorship, and cultural legitimacy?

Together, we’ll consider what it means for art to exist outside—or against—elite systems of power and commodification, and how it can become a site of collective imagination, refusal, and liberation.

Dr. Ilk Yasha is an independent curator, educator, and antidisciplinary facilitator currently associated with New York University and the Studio Museum in Harlem. He is dedicated to mentoring arts and cultural leaders from historically underrepresented backgrounds and building a more inclusive, equitable art ecosystem.

Get a drink, connect, and learn at Lectures on Tap! 🙌

Agenda

6:30 PM – Doors open: find a seat (open seating!), order food & drinks, and expect a bar line—arriving early is key.

6:55 PM – Host introduction

7:00 PM – Lecture begins

7:45 PM – Audience Q&A

8:00 PM – Have 1:1 time with the speaker, mingle with fellow guests, and order another round

8:30 PM – Wrap up.