Joanna Tam Announced as 2024 Prilla Smith Brackett Award WinnerSeptember 9, 2024
The Davis Museum at Wellesley College is delighted to announce that Joanna Tam is the recipient of the 2024 Prilla Smith Brackett Award. Tam will receive $15,000 to support her art practice and will be featured in a virtual exhibition on the Davis’s website. The Davis will host a reception and artist talk honoring Tam on Monday, October 7 from 6:30-8:30pm.
Joanna Tam (b. 1972, Hong Kong) is a visual artist and educator who lives and works on the ancestral and unceded lands of the Wampanoag and the Massachusett People, also known as Boston. Her interdisciplinary practice examines the issue of migration, the construction of national identity, and one's connection to places through video, photography, performance, installation, and community engagement. Her current body of work, "Visibility Studies" (2021 - present), unpacks the complex connection between hypervisibility and invisibility in relation to safety and vulnerability for folx at the margins. Tam is a visiting lecturer at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and a member of the Mobius Artists Group.
The biennial Prilla Smith Brackett Award honors an outstanding female-identified visual artist based in the Greater Boston area.
Read more about the recipient and award in the press release here. Review the online exhibition here.
September 9, 2024
The Davis Museum at Wellesley College is delighted to announce that Joanna Tam is the recipient of the 2024 Prilla Smith Brackett Award. Tam will receive $15,000 to support her art practice and will be featured in a virtual exhibition on the Davis’s website. The Davis will host a reception and artist talk honoring Tam on Monday, October 7 from 6:30-8:30pm.
Joanna Tam (b. 1972, Hong Kong) is a visual artist and educator who lives and works on the ancestral and unceded lands of the Wampanoag and the Massachusett People, also known as Boston. Her interdisciplinary practice examines the issue of migration, the construction of national identity, and one's connection to places through video, photography, performance, installation, and community engagement. Her current body of work, "Visibility Studies" (2021 - present), unpacks the complex connection between hypervisibility and invisibility in relation to safety and vulnerability for folx at the margins. Tam is a visiting lecturer at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and a member of the Mobius Artists Group.
The biennial Prilla Smith Brackett Award honors an outstanding female-identified visual artist based in the Greater Boston area.
Read more about the recipient and award in the press release here. Review the online exhibition here.