BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:The Very First and Infinitely Last: 2024 Undergraduate Honors Thesis Exhibition X-WR-TIMEZONE:Pacific Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260809T224941Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43953108870544 DTSTART:20240416T180000Z DTEND:20240417T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The Department of Art & Art History presents The Very First and Infinitely Last\, the 2024 Undergraduate Honors Thesis Exhibition\, on vi ew April 16 through May 3 at the Coulter Art Gallery. Join us for the open ing reception on Thursday\, April 18\, 4-6pm. Culminating the yearlong und ergraduate honors thesis program in art practice\, this group exhibition s howcases works by Halima Ibrahim\, Charu Jain\, and Gaosheng Yang.\n\n⎯\ n\nThe suggestive title of this year's honors exhibit - 'The Very First an d Infinitely Last' - comprises both a quest for origin and a resistance to completion. The three featured artists explore the tension between a comp licated past and an uncertain future through a variety of discursive and m aterial practices that convey a profound historical\, cultural and emotion al resonance.\n\nHalima Ibrahim\, Charu Jain and Gaosheng Yang each bring to their work an aesthetic of displacement\, a commitment to reconnect wit h their sense of identity in a more intense and meaningful way based on th e delicate\, sometimes even deliberately unsettling experience of shared s elfhood.\n\nCharu evocatively combines colors and poses in her self-portra its to achieve a heightened emotional exposure and intimate dialogue with the audience. Gaosheng's paj ntaub-inspired photographic collages of the H mong community constitute a timeless act of intergenerational remembrance. Halima's devotional engagement with images of graffiti on the walls of Ca iro preserves the city's poetic legacy in the face of encroaching moderniz ation.\n\nThe Art and Art History Department is proud to support these art ists and to showcase their richly layered and expressive bodies of work\, which are the result of a Senior Year of intensive research\, experimentat ion\, collaborative exchange and creative vision.\n\n- Jonathan Calm\, Cur ator\n\n⎯\n\nHalima Ibrahim is an Egyptian American Artist and Poet curr ently based in and out of Cairo and the Bay area. She is a double Major in Art History and Art practice\, set to graduate from Stanford in June 2024 . Halima is a multimedia Photographer\, working with alternative photograp hy and printing techniques. Her work interrogates systemic and social issu es in the United States and in Egypt. Halima Ibrahim served as the Rhode I sland Youth Poet Laureate for 2020 and 2021\, and former Artist in Residen ce for the Markaz Resource center for the 2021-2022 academic year.\n\nChar u Jain is a multi-disciplinary artist\, primarily working with acrylic fig urative painting processes. She also works in various forms of printmaking \, often depicting herself in a multitude of colors\, mediums\, and poses. Along with majoring in Art Practice at Stanford University\, she is on th e pre-medical track and will be attending Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai.\n\nGaosheng Yang is a multidisciplinary Hmong-American artist born in Sacramento\, California\, later relocated to Appleton\, Wisconsin\, and currently based in Stanford\, California. She is receiving a B.A. with Ho nors in Art Practice from Stanford University in June 2024. Yang’s thema tic work is centered on remembering\, representing\, and storytelling the intergenerational narratives of Asian and Hmong cultures through the synth esis of photography\, printmaking\, digital and physical collaging to crea te constructed portraits and landscapes. Her interest in the arts can be a ttributed to her parents as well as her early exposure and practice to cer amics from siblings and high school.\n\nVISITOR INFORMATION: Coulter Art G allery is located at 355 Roth Way in the McMurtry Building on Stanford cam pus. Visitor parking is free all day on weekends and after 4pm on weekdays \, except by the Oval. Alternatively\, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Tran sit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. The gallery is open Monday through Friday\, 11am to 5pm. This exhibition is open to Stan ford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free. \n\nConnect wit h the Department of Art & Art History! Subscribe to our mailing list and f ollow us on Instagram and Facebook. GEO:37.432803;-122.172395 LOCATION:Coulter Art Gallery SUMMARY:The Very First and Infinitely Last: 2024 Undergraduate Honors Thesi s Exhibition URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/2024_undergraduate_honors_t hesis_exhibition CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260809T224941Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43953108873617 DTSTART:20240417T180000Z DTEND:20240418T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The Department of Art & Art History presents The Very First and Infinitely Last\, the 2024 Undergraduate Honors Thesis Exhibition\, on vi ew April 16 through May 3 at the Coulter Art Gallery. Join us for the open ing reception on Thursday\, April 18\, 4-6pm. Culminating the yearlong und ergraduate honors thesis program in art practice\, this group exhibition s howcases works by Halima Ibrahim\, Charu Jain\, and Gaosheng Yang.\n\n⎯\ n\nThe suggestive title of this year's honors exhibit - 'The Very First an d Infinitely Last' - comprises both a quest for origin and a resistance to completion. The three featured artists explore the tension between a comp licated past and an uncertain future through a variety of discursive and m aterial practices that convey a profound historical\, cultural and emotion al resonance.\n\nHalima Ibrahim\, Charu Jain and Gaosheng Yang each bring to their work an aesthetic of displacement\, a commitment to reconnect wit h their sense of identity in a more intense and meaningful way based on th e delicate\, sometimes even deliberately unsettling experience of shared s elfhood.\n\nCharu evocatively combines colors and poses in her self-portra its to achieve a heightened emotional exposure and intimate dialogue with the audience. Gaosheng's paj ntaub-inspired photographic collages of the H mong community constitute a timeless act of intergenerational remembrance. Halima's devotional engagement with images of graffiti on the walls of Ca iro preserves the city's poetic legacy in the face of encroaching moderniz ation.\n\nThe Art and Art History Department is proud to support these art ists and to showcase their richly layered and expressive bodies of work\, which are the result of a Senior Year of intensive research\, experimentat ion\, collaborative exchange and creative vision.\n\n- Jonathan Calm\, Cur ator\n\n⎯\n\nHalima Ibrahim is an Egyptian American Artist and Poet curr ently based in and out of Cairo and the Bay area. She is a double Major in Art History and Art practice\, set to graduate from Stanford in June 2024 . Halima is a multimedia Photographer\, working with alternative photograp hy and printing techniques. Her work interrogates systemic and social issu es in the United States and in Egypt. Halima Ibrahim served as the Rhode I sland Youth Poet Laureate for 2020 and 2021\, and former Artist in Residen ce for the Markaz Resource center for the 2021-2022 academic year.\n\nChar u Jain is a multi-disciplinary artist\, primarily working with acrylic fig urative painting processes. She also works in various forms of printmaking \, often depicting herself in a multitude of colors\, mediums\, and poses. Along with majoring in Art Practice at Stanford University\, she is on th e pre-medical track and will be attending Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai.\n\nGaosheng Yang is a multidisciplinary Hmong-American artist born in Sacramento\, California\, later relocated to Appleton\, Wisconsin\, and currently based in Stanford\, California. She is receiving a B.A. with Ho nors in Art Practice from Stanford University in June 2024. Yang’s thema tic work is centered on remembering\, representing\, and storytelling the intergenerational narratives of Asian and Hmong cultures through the synth esis of photography\, printmaking\, digital and physical collaging to crea te constructed portraits and landscapes. Her interest in the arts can be a ttributed to her parents as well as her early exposure and practice to cer amics from siblings and high school.\n\nVISITOR INFORMATION: Coulter Art G allery is located at 355 Roth Way in the McMurtry Building on Stanford cam pus. Visitor parking is free all day on weekends and after 4pm on weekdays \, except by the Oval. Alternatively\, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Tran sit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. The gallery is open Monday through Friday\, 11am to 5pm. This exhibition is open to Stan ford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free. \n\nConnect wit h the Department of Art & Art History! Subscribe to our mailing list and f ollow us on Instagram and Facebook. GEO:37.432803;-122.172395 LOCATION:Coulter Art Gallery SUMMARY:The Very First and Infinitely Last: 2024 Undergraduate Honors Thesi s Exhibition URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/2024_undergraduate_honors_t hesis_exhibition CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260809T224941Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43953108876690 DTSTART:20240418T180000Z DTEND:20240419T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The Department of Art & Art History presents The Very First and Infinitely Last\, the 2024 Undergraduate Honors Thesis Exhibition\, on vi ew April 16 through May 3 at the Coulter Art Gallery. Join us for the open ing reception on Thursday\, April 18\, 4-6pm. Culminating the yearlong und ergraduate honors thesis program in art practice\, this group exhibition s howcases works by Halima Ibrahim\, Charu Jain\, and Gaosheng Yang.\n\n⎯\ n\nThe suggestive title of this year's honors exhibit - 'The Very First an d Infinitely Last' - comprises both a quest for origin and a resistance to completion. The three featured artists explore the tension between a comp licated past and an uncertain future through a variety of discursive and m aterial practices that convey a profound historical\, cultural and emotion al resonance.\n\nHalima Ibrahim\, Charu Jain and Gaosheng Yang each bring to their work an aesthetic of displacement\, a commitment to reconnect wit h their sense of identity in a more intense and meaningful way based on th e delicate\, sometimes even deliberately unsettling experience of shared s elfhood.\n\nCharu evocatively combines colors and poses in her self-portra its to achieve a heightened emotional exposure and intimate dialogue with the audience. Gaosheng's paj ntaub-inspired photographic collages of the H mong community constitute a timeless act of intergenerational remembrance. Halima's devotional engagement with images of graffiti on the walls of Ca iro preserves the city's poetic legacy in the face of encroaching moderniz ation.\n\nThe Art and Art History Department is proud to support these art ists and to showcase their richly layered and expressive bodies of work\, which are the result of a Senior Year of intensive research\, experimentat ion\, collaborative exchange and creative vision.\n\n- Jonathan Calm\, Cur ator\n\n⎯\n\nHalima Ibrahim is an Egyptian American Artist and Poet curr ently based in and out of Cairo and the Bay area. She is a double Major in Art History and Art practice\, set to graduate from Stanford in June 2024 . Halima is a multimedia Photographer\, working with alternative photograp hy and printing techniques. Her work interrogates systemic and social issu es in the United States and in Egypt. Halima Ibrahim served as the Rhode I sland Youth Poet Laureate for 2020 and 2021\, and former Artist in Residen ce for the Markaz Resource center for the 2021-2022 academic year.\n\nChar u Jain is a multi-disciplinary artist\, primarily working with acrylic fig urative painting processes. She also works in various forms of printmaking \, often depicting herself in a multitude of colors\, mediums\, and poses. Along with majoring in Art Practice at Stanford University\, she is on th e pre-medical track and will be attending Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai.\n\nGaosheng Yang is a multidisciplinary Hmong-American artist born in Sacramento\, California\, later relocated to Appleton\, Wisconsin\, and currently based in Stanford\, California. She is receiving a B.A. with Ho nors in Art Practice from Stanford University in June 2024. Yang’s thema tic work is centered on remembering\, representing\, and storytelling the intergenerational narratives of Asian and Hmong cultures through the synth esis of photography\, printmaking\, digital and physical collaging to crea te constructed portraits and landscapes. Her interest in the arts can be a ttributed to her parents as well as her early exposure and practice to cer amics from siblings and high school.\n\nVISITOR INFORMATION: Coulter Art G allery is located at 355 Roth Way in the McMurtry Building on Stanford cam pus. Visitor parking is free all day on weekends and after 4pm on weekdays \, except by the Oval. Alternatively\, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Tran sit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. The gallery is open Monday through Friday\, 11am to 5pm. This exhibition is open to Stan ford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free. \n\nConnect wit h the Department of Art & Art History! Subscribe to our mailing list and f ollow us on Instagram and Facebook. GEO:37.432803;-122.172395 LOCATION:Coulter Art Gallery SUMMARY:The Very First and Infinitely Last: 2024 Undergraduate Honors Thesi s Exhibition URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/2024_undergraduate_honors_t hesis_exhibition CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260809T224941Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43953108879763 DTSTART:20240419T180000Z DTEND:20240420T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The Department of Art & Art History presents The Very First and Infinitely Last\, the 2024 Undergraduate Honors Thesis Exhibition\, on vi ew April 16 through May 3 at the Coulter Art Gallery. Join us for the open ing reception on Thursday\, April 18\, 4-6pm. Culminating the yearlong und ergraduate honors thesis program in art practice\, this group exhibition s howcases works by Halima Ibrahim\, Charu Jain\, and Gaosheng Yang.\n\n⎯\ n\nThe suggestive title of this year's honors exhibit - 'The Very First an d Infinitely Last' - comprises both a quest for origin and a resistance to completion. The three featured artists explore the tension between a comp licated past and an uncertain future through a variety of discursive and m aterial practices that convey a profound historical\, cultural and emotion al resonance.\n\nHalima Ibrahim\, Charu Jain and Gaosheng Yang each bring to their work an aesthetic of displacement\, a commitment to reconnect wit h their sense of identity in a more intense and meaningful way based on th e delicate\, sometimes even deliberately unsettling experience of shared s elfhood.\n\nCharu evocatively combines colors and poses in her self-portra its to achieve a heightened emotional exposure and intimate dialogue with the audience. Gaosheng's paj ntaub-inspired photographic collages of the H mong community constitute a timeless act of intergenerational remembrance. Halima's devotional engagement with images of graffiti on the walls of Ca iro preserves the city's poetic legacy in the face of encroaching moderniz ation.\n\nThe Art and Art History Department is proud to support these art ists and to showcase their richly layered and expressive bodies of work\, which are the result of a Senior Year of intensive research\, experimentat ion\, collaborative exchange and creative vision.\n\n- Jonathan Calm\, Cur ator\n\n⎯\n\nHalima Ibrahim is an Egyptian American Artist and Poet curr ently based in and out of Cairo and the Bay area. She is a double Major in Art History and Art practice\, set to graduate from Stanford in June 2024 . Halima is a multimedia Photographer\, working with alternative photograp hy and printing techniques. Her work interrogates systemic and social issu es in the United States and in Egypt. Halima Ibrahim served as the Rhode I sland Youth Poet Laureate for 2020 and 2021\, and former Artist in Residen ce for the Markaz Resource center for the 2021-2022 academic year.\n\nChar u Jain is a multi-disciplinary artist\, primarily working with acrylic fig urative painting processes. She also works in various forms of printmaking \, often depicting herself in a multitude of colors\, mediums\, and poses. Along with majoring in Art Practice at Stanford University\, she is on th e pre-medical track and will be attending Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai.\n\nGaosheng Yang is a multidisciplinary Hmong-American artist born in Sacramento\, California\, later relocated to Appleton\, Wisconsin\, and currently based in Stanford\, California. She is receiving a B.A. with Ho nors in Art Practice from Stanford University in June 2024. Yang’s thema tic work is centered on remembering\, representing\, and storytelling the intergenerational narratives of Asian and Hmong cultures through the synth esis of photography\, printmaking\, digital and physical collaging to crea te constructed portraits and landscapes. Her interest in the arts can be a ttributed to her parents as well as her early exposure and practice to cer amics from siblings and high school.\n\nVISITOR INFORMATION: Coulter Art G allery is located at 355 Roth Way in the McMurtry Building on Stanford cam pus. Visitor parking is free all day on weekends and after 4pm on weekdays \, except by the Oval. Alternatively\, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Tran sit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. The gallery is open Monday through Friday\, 11am to 5pm. This exhibition is open to Stan ford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free. \n\nConnect wit h the Department of Art & Art History! Subscribe to our mailing list and f ollow us on Instagram and Facebook. GEO:37.432803;-122.172395 LOCATION:Coulter Art Gallery SUMMARY:The Very First and Infinitely Last: 2024 Undergraduate Honors Thesi s Exhibition URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/2024_undergraduate_honors_t hesis_exhibition CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260809T224941Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43953108882836 DTSTART:20240422T180000Z DTEND:20240423T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The Department of Art & Art History presents The Very First and Infinitely Last\, the 2024 Undergraduate Honors Thesis Exhibition\, on vi ew April 16 through May 3 at the Coulter Art Gallery. Join us for the open ing reception on Thursday\, April 18\, 4-6pm. Culminating the yearlong und ergraduate honors thesis program in art practice\, this group exhibition s howcases works by Halima Ibrahim\, Charu Jain\, and Gaosheng Yang.\n\n⎯\ n\nThe suggestive title of this year's honors exhibit - 'The Very First an d Infinitely Last' - comprises both a quest for origin and a resistance to completion. The three featured artists explore the tension between a comp licated past and an uncertain future through a variety of discursive and m aterial practices that convey a profound historical\, cultural and emotion al resonance.\n\nHalima Ibrahim\, Charu Jain and Gaosheng Yang each bring to their work an aesthetic of displacement\, a commitment to reconnect wit h their sense of identity in a more intense and meaningful way based on th e delicate\, sometimes even deliberately unsettling experience of shared s elfhood.\n\nCharu evocatively combines colors and poses in her self-portra its to achieve a heightened emotional exposure and intimate dialogue with the audience. Gaosheng's paj ntaub-inspired photographic collages of the H mong community constitute a timeless act of intergenerational remembrance. Halima's devotional engagement with images of graffiti on the walls of Ca iro preserves the city's poetic legacy in the face of encroaching moderniz ation.\n\nThe Art and Art History Department is proud to support these art ists and to showcase their richly layered and expressive bodies of work\, which are the result of a Senior Year of intensive research\, experimentat ion\, collaborative exchange and creative vision.\n\n- Jonathan Calm\, Cur ator\n\n⎯\n\nHalima Ibrahim is an Egyptian American Artist and Poet curr ently based in and out of Cairo and the Bay area. She is a double Major in Art History and Art practice\, set to graduate from Stanford in June 2024 . Halima is a multimedia Photographer\, working with alternative photograp hy and printing techniques. Her work interrogates systemic and social issu es in the United States and in Egypt. Halima Ibrahim served as the Rhode I sland Youth Poet Laureate for 2020 and 2021\, and former Artist in Residen ce for the Markaz Resource center for the 2021-2022 academic year.\n\nChar u Jain is a multi-disciplinary artist\, primarily working with acrylic fig urative painting processes. She also works in various forms of printmaking \, often depicting herself in a multitude of colors\, mediums\, and poses. Along with majoring in Art Practice at Stanford University\, she is on th e pre-medical track and will be attending Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai.\n\nGaosheng Yang is a multidisciplinary Hmong-American artist born in Sacramento\, California\, later relocated to Appleton\, Wisconsin\, and currently based in Stanford\, California. She is receiving a B.A. with Ho nors in Art Practice from Stanford University in June 2024. Yang’s thema tic work is centered on remembering\, representing\, and storytelling the intergenerational narratives of Asian and Hmong cultures through the synth esis of photography\, printmaking\, digital and physical collaging to crea te constructed portraits and landscapes. Her interest in the arts can be a ttributed to her parents as well as her early exposure and practice to cer amics from siblings and high school.\n\nVISITOR INFORMATION: Coulter Art G allery is located at 355 Roth Way in the McMurtry Building on Stanford cam pus. Visitor parking is free all day on weekends and after 4pm on weekdays \, except by the Oval. Alternatively\, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Tran sit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. The gallery is open Monday through Friday\, 11am to 5pm. This exhibition is open to Stan ford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free. \n\nConnect wit h the Department of Art & Art History! Subscribe to our mailing list and f ollow us on Instagram and Facebook. GEO:37.432803;-122.172395 LOCATION:Coulter Art Gallery SUMMARY:The Very First and Infinitely Last: 2024 Undergraduate Honors Thesi s Exhibition URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/2024_undergraduate_honors_t hesis_exhibition CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260809T224941Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43953108885909 DTSTART:20240423T180000Z DTEND:20240424T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The Department of Art & Art History presents The Very First and Infinitely Last\, the 2024 Undergraduate Honors Thesis Exhibition\, on vi ew April 16 through May 3 at the Coulter Art Gallery. Join us for the open ing reception on Thursday\, April 18\, 4-6pm. Culminating the yearlong und ergraduate honors thesis program in art practice\, this group exhibition s howcases works by Halima Ibrahim\, Charu Jain\, and Gaosheng Yang.\n\n⎯\ n\nThe suggestive title of this year's honors exhibit - 'The Very First an d Infinitely Last' - comprises both a quest for origin and a resistance to completion. The three featured artists explore the tension between a comp licated past and an uncertain future through a variety of discursive and m aterial practices that convey a profound historical\, cultural and emotion al resonance.\n\nHalima Ibrahim\, Charu Jain and Gaosheng Yang each bring to their work an aesthetic of displacement\, a commitment to reconnect wit h their sense of identity in a more intense and meaningful way based on th e delicate\, sometimes even deliberately unsettling experience of shared s elfhood.\n\nCharu evocatively combines colors and poses in her self-portra its to achieve a heightened emotional exposure and intimate dialogue with the audience. Gaosheng's paj ntaub-inspired photographic collages of the H mong community constitute a timeless act of intergenerational remembrance. Halima's devotional engagement with images of graffiti on the walls of Ca iro preserves the city's poetic legacy in the face of encroaching moderniz ation.\n\nThe Art and Art History Department is proud to support these art ists and to showcase their richly layered and expressive bodies of work\, which are the result of a Senior Year of intensive research\, experimentat ion\, collaborative exchange and creative vision.\n\n- Jonathan Calm\, Cur ator\n\n⎯\n\nHalima Ibrahim is an Egyptian American Artist and Poet curr ently based in and out of Cairo and the Bay area. She is a double Major in Art History and Art practice\, set to graduate from Stanford in June 2024 . Halima is a multimedia Photographer\, working with alternative photograp hy and printing techniques. Her work interrogates systemic and social issu es in the United States and in Egypt. Halima Ibrahim served as the Rhode I sland Youth Poet Laureate for 2020 and 2021\, and former Artist in Residen ce for the Markaz Resource center for the 2021-2022 academic year.\n\nChar u Jain is a multi-disciplinary artist\, primarily working with acrylic fig urative painting processes. She also works in various forms of printmaking \, often depicting herself in a multitude of colors\, mediums\, and poses. Along with majoring in Art Practice at Stanford University\, she is on th e pre-medical track and will be attending Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai.\n\nGaosheng Yang is a multidisciplinary Hmong-American artist born in Sacramento\, California\, later relocated to Appleton\, Wisconsin\, and currently based in Stanford\, California. She is receiving a B.A. with Ho nors in Art Practice from Stanford University in June 2024. Yang’s thema tic work is centered on remembering\, representing\, and storytelling the intergenerational narratives of Asian and Hmong cultures through the synth esis of photography\, printmaking\, digital and physical collaging to crea te constructed portraits and landscapes. Her interest in the arts can be a ttributed to her parents as well as her early exposure and practice to cer amics from siblings and high school.\n\nVISITOR INFORMATION: Coulter Art G allery is located at 355 Roth Way in the McMurtry Building on Stanford cam pus. Visitor parking is free all day on weekends and after 4pm on weekdays \, except by the Oval. Alternatively\, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Tran sit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. The gallery is open Monday through Friday\, 11am to 5pm. This exhibition is open to Stan ford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free. \n\nConnect wit h the Department of Art & Art History! Subscribe to our mailing list and f ollow us on Instagram and Facebook. GEO:37.432803;-122.172395 LOCATION:Coulter Art Gallery SUMMARY:The Very First and Infinitely Last: 2024 Undergraduate Honors Thesi s Exhibition URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/2024_undergraduate_honors_t hesis_exhibition CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260809T224941Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43953108887958 DTSTART:20240424T180000Z DTEND:20240425T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The Department of Art & Art History presents The Very First and Infinitely Last\, the 2024 Undergraduate Honors Thesis Exhibition\, on vi ew April 16 through May 3 at the Coulter Art Gallery. Join us for the open ing reception on Thursday\, April 18\, 4-6pm. Culminating the yearlong und ergraduate honors thesis program in art practice\, this group exhibition s howcases works by Halima Ibrahim\, Charu Jain\, and Gaosheng Yang.\n\n⎯\ n\nThe suggestive title of this year's honors exhibit - 'The Very First an d Infinitely Last' - comprises both a quest for origin and a resistance to completion. The three featured artists explore the tension between a comp licated past and an uncertain future through a variety of discursive and m aterial practices that convey a profound historical\, cultural and emotion al resonance.\n\nHalima Ibrahim\, Charu Jain and Gaosheng Yang each bring to their work an aesthetic of displacement\, a commitment to reconnect wit h their sense of identity in a more intense and meaningful way based on th e delicate\, sometimes even deliberately unsettling experience of shared s elfhood.\n\nCharu evocatively combines colors and poses in her self-portra its to achieve a heightened emotional exposure and intimate dialogue with the audience. Gaosheng's paj ntaub-inspired photographic collages of the H mong community constitute a timeless act of intergenerational remembrance. Halima's devotional engagement with images of graffiti on the walls of Ca iro preserves the city's poetic legacy in the face of encroaching moderniz ation.\n\nThe Art and Art History Department is proud to support these art ists and to showcase their richly layered and expressive bodies of work\, which are the result of a Senior Year of intensive research\, experimentat ion\, collaborative exchange and creative vision.\n\n- Jonathan Calm\, Cur ator\n\n⎯\n\nHalima Ibrahim is an Egyptian American Artist and Poet curr ently based in and out of Cairo and the Bay area. She is a double Major in Art History and Art practice\, set to graduate from Stanford in June 2024 . Halima is a multimedia Photographer\, working with alternative photograp hy and printing techniques. Her work interrogates systemic and social issu es in the United States and in Egypt. Halima Ibrahim served as the Rhode I sland Youth Poet Laureate for 2020 and 2021\, and former Artist in Residen ce for the Markaz Resource center for the 2021-2022 academic year.\n\nChar u Jain is a multi-disciplinary artist\, primarily working with acrylic fig urative painting processes. She also works in various forms of printmaking \, often depicting herself in a multitude of colors\, mediums\, and poses. Along with majoring in Art Practice at Stanford University\, she is on th e pre-medical track and will be attending Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai.\n\nGaosheng Yang is a multidisciplinary Hmong-American artist born in Sacramento\, California\, later relocated to Appleton\, Wisconsin\, and currently based in Stanford\, California. She is receiving a B.A. with Ho nors in Art Practice from Stanford University in June 2024. Yang’s thema tic work is centered on remembering\, representing\, and storytelling the intergenerational narratives of Asian and Hmong cultures through the synth esis of photography\, printmaking\, digital and physical collaging to crea te constructed portraits and landscapes. Her interest in the arts can be a ttributed to her parents as well as her early exposure and practice to cer amics from siblings and high school.\n\nVISITOR INFORMATION: Coulter Art G allery is located at 355 Roth Way in the McMurtry Building on Stanford cam pus. Visitor parking is free all day on weekends and after 4pm on weekdays \, except by the Oval. Alternatively\, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Tran sit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. The gallery is open Monday through Friday\, 11am to 5pm. This exhibition is open to Stan ford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free. \n\nConnect wit h the Department of Art & Art History! Subscribe to our mailing list and f ollow us on Instagram and Facebook. GEO:37.432803;-122.172395 LOCATION:Coulter Art Gallery SUMMARY:The Very First and Infinitely Last: 2024 Undergraduate Honors Thesi s Exhibition URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/2024_undergraduate_honors_t hesis_exhibition CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260809T224941Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43953108891031 DTSTART:20240425T180000Z DTEND:20240426T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The Department of Art & Art History presents The Very First and Infinitely Last\, the 2024 Undergraduate Honors Thesis Exhibition\, on vi ew April 16 through May 3 at the Coulter Art Gallery. Join us for the open ing reception on Thursday\, April 18\, 4-6pm. Culminating the yearlong und ergraduate honors thesis program in art practice\, this group exhibition s howcases works by Halima Ibrahim\, Charu Jain\, and Gaosheng Yang.\n\n⎯\ n\nThe suggestive title of this year's honors exhibit - 'The Very First an d Infinitely Last' - comprises both a quest for origin and a resistance to completion. The three featured artists explore the tension between a comp licated past and an uncertain future through a variety of discursive and m aterial practices that convey a profound historical\, cultural and emotion al resonance.\n\nHalima Ibrahim\, Charu Jain and Gaosheng Yang each bring to their work an aesthetic of displacement\, a commitment to reconnect wit h their sense of identity in a more intense and meaningful way based on th e delicate\, sometimes even deliberately unsettling experience of shared s elfhood.\n\nCharu evocatively combines colors and poses in her self-portra its to achieve a heightened emotional exposure and intimate dialogue with the audience. Gaosheng's paj ntaub-inspired photographic collages of the H mong community constitute a timeless act of intergenerational remembrance. Halima's devotional engagement with images of graffiti on the walls of Ca iro preserves the city's poetic legacy in the face of encroaching moderniz ation.\n\nThe Art and Art History Department is proud to support these art ists and to showcase their richly layered and expressive bodies of work\, which are the result of a Senior Year of intensive research\, experimentat ion\, collaborative exchange and creative vision.\n\n- Jonathan Calm\, Cur ator\n\n⎯\n\nHalima Ibrahim is an Egyptian American Artist and Poet curr ently based in and out of Cairo and the Bay area. She is a double Major in Art History and Art practice\, set to graduate from Stanford in June 2024 . Halima is a multimedia Photographer\, working with alternative photograp hy and printing techniques. Her work interrogates systemic and social issu es in the United States and in Egypt. Halima Ibrahim served as the Rhode I sland Youth Poet Laureate for 2020 and 2021\, and former Artist in Residen ce for the Markaz Resource center for the 2021-2022 academic year.\n\nChar u Jain is a multi-disciplinary artist\, primarily working with acrylic fig urative painting processes. She also works in various forms of printmaking \, often depicting herself in a multitude of colors\, mediums\, and poses. Along with majoring in Art Practice at Stanford University\, she is on th e pre-medical track and will be attending Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai.\n\nGaosheng Yang is a multidisciplinary Hmong-American artist born in Sacramento\, California\, later relocated to Appleton\, Wisconsin\, and currently based in Stanford\, California. She is receiving a B.A. with Ho nors in Art Practice from Stanford University in June 2024. Yang’s thema tic work is centered on remembering\, representing\, and storytelling the intergenerational narratives of Asian and Hmong cultures through the synth esis of photography\, printmaking\, digital and physical collaging to crea te constructed portraits and landscapes. Her interest in the arts can be a ttributed to her parents as well as her early exposure and practice to cer amics from siblings and high school.\n\nVISITOR INFORMATION: Coulter Art G allery is located at 355 Roth Way in the McMurtry Building on Stanford cam pus. Visitor parking is free all day on weekends and after 4pm on weekdays \, except by the Oval. Alternatively\, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Tran sit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. The gallery is open Monday through Friday\, 11am to 5pm. This exhibition is open to Stan ford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free. \n\nConnect wit h the Department of Art & Art History! Subscribe to our mailing list and f ollow us on Instagram and Facebook. GEO:37.432803;-122.172395 LOCATION:Coulter Art Gallery SUMMARY:The Very First and Infinitely Last: 2024 Undergraduate Honors Thesi s Exhibition URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/2024_undergraduate_honors_t hesis_exhibition CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260809T224941Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43953108893080 DTSTART:20240426T180000Z DTEND:20240427T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The Department of Art & Art History presents The Very First and Infinitely Last\, the 2024 Undergraduate Honors Thesis Exhibition\, on vi ew April 16 through May 3 at the Coulter Art Gallery. Join us for the open ing reception on Thursday\, April 18\, 4-6pm. Culminating the yearlong und ergraduate honors thesis program in art practice\, this group exhibition s howcases works by Halima Ibrahim\, Charu Jain\, and Gaosheng Yang.\n\n⎯\ n\nThe suggestive title of this year's honors exhibit - 'The Very First an d Infinitely Last' - comprises both a quest for origin and a resistance to completion. The three featured artists explore the tension between a comp licated past and an uncertain future through a variety of discursive and m aterial practices that convey a profound historical\, cultural and emotion al resonance.\n\nHalima Ibrahim\, Charu Jain and Gaosheng Yang each bring to their work an aesthetic of displacement\, a commitment to reconnect wit h their sense of identity in a more intense and meaningful way based on th e delicate\, sometimes even deliberately unsettling experience of shared s elfhood.\n\nCharu evocatively combines colors and poses in her self-portra its to achieve a heightened emotional exposure and intimate dialogue with the audience. Gaosheng's paj ntaub-inspired photographic collages of the H mong community constitute a timeless act of intergenerational remembrance. Halima's devotional engagement with images of graffiti on the walls of Ca iro preserves the city's poetic legacy in the face of encroaching moderniz ation.\n\nThe Art and Art History Department is proud to support these art ists and to showcase their richly layered and expressive bodies of work\, which are the result of a Senior Year of intensive research\, experimentat ion\, collaborative exchange and creative vision.\n\n- Jonathan Calm\, Cur ator\n\n⎯\n\nHalima Ibrahim is an Egyptian American Artist and Poet curr ently based in and out of Cairo and the Bay area. She is a double Major in Art History and Art practice\, set to graduate from Stanford in June 2024 . Halima is a multimedia Photographer\, working with alternative photograp hy and printing techniques. Her work interrogates systemic and social issu es in the United States and in Egypt. Halima Ibrahim served as the Rhode I sland Youth Poet Laureate for 2020 and 2021\, and former Artist in Residen ce for the Markaz Resource center for the 2021-2022 academic year.\n\nChar u Jain is a multi-disciplinary artist\, primarily working with acrylic fig urative painting processes. She also works in various forms of printmaking \, often depicting herself in a multitude of colors\, mediums\, and poses. Along with majoring in Art Practice at Stanford University\, she is on th e pre-medical track and will be attending Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai.\n\nGaosheng Yang is a multidisciplinary Hmong-American artist born in Sacramento\, California\, later relocated to Appleton\, Wisconsin\, and currently based in Stanford\, California. She is receiving a B.A. with Ho nors in Art Practice from Stanford University in June 2024. Yang’s thema tic work is centered on remembering\, representing\, and storytelling the intergenerational narratives of Asian and Hmong cultures through the synth esis of photography\, printmaking\, digital and physical collaging to crea te constructed portraits and landscapes. Her interest in the arts can be a ttributed to her parents as well as her early exposure and practice to cer amics from siblings and high school.\n\nVISITOR INFORMATION: Coulter Art G allery is located at 355 Roth Way in the McMurtry Building on Stanford cam pus. Visitor parking is free all day on weekends and after 4pm on weekdays \, except by the Oval. Alternatively\, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Tran sit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. The gallery is open Monday through Friday\, 11am to 5pm. This exhibition is open to Stan ford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free. \n\nConnect wit h the Department of Art & Art History! Subscribe to our mailing list and f ollow us on Instagram and Facebook. GEO:37.432803;-122.172395 LOCATION:Coulter Art Gallery SUMMARY:The Very First and Infinitely Last: 2024 Undergraduate Honors Thesi s Exhibition URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/2024_undergraduate_honors_t hesis_exhibition CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260809T224941Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43953108896153 DTSTART:20240429T180000Z DTEND:20240430T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The Department of Art & Art History presents The Very First and Infinitely Last\, the 2024 Undergraduate Honors Thesis Exhibition\, on vi ew April 16 through May 3 at the Coulter Art Gallery. Join us for the open ing reception on Thursday\, April 18\, 4-6pm. Culminating the yearlong und ergraduate honors thesis program in art practice\, this group exhibition s howcases works by Halima Ibrahim\, Charu Jain\, and Gaosheng Yang.\n\n⎯\ n\nThe suggestive title of this year's honors exhibit - 'The Very First an d Infinitely Last' - comprises both a quest for origin and a resistance to completion. The three featured artists explore the tension between a comp licated past and an uncertain future through a variety of discursive and m aterial practices that convey a profound historical\, cultural and emotion al resonance.\n\nHalima Ibrahim\, Charu Jain and Gaosheng Yang each bring to their work an aesthetic of displacement\, a commitment to reconnect wit h their sense of identity in a more intense and meaningful way based on th e delicate\, sometimes even deliberately unsettling experience of shared s elfhood.\n\nCharu evocatively combines colors and poses in her self-portra its to achieve a heightened emotional exposure and intimate dialogue with the audience. Gaosheng's paj ntaub-inspired photographic collages of the H mong community constitute a timeless act of intergenerational remembrance. Halima's devotional engagement with images of graffiti on the walls of Ca iro preserves the city's poetic legacy in the face of encroaching moderniz ation.\n\nThe Art and Art History Department is proud to support these art ists and to showcase their richly layered and expressive bodies of work\, which are the result of a Senior Year of intensive research\, experimentat ion\, collaborative exchange and creative vision.\n\n- Jonathan Calm\, Cur ator\n\n⎯\n\nHalima Ibrahim is an Egyptian American Artist and Poet curr ently based in and out of Cairo and the Bay area. She is a double Major in Art History and Art practice\, set to graduate from Stanford in June 2024 . Halima is a multimedia Photographer\, working with alternative photograp hy and printing techniques. Her work interrogates systemic and social issu es in the United States and in Egypt. Halima Ibrahim served as the Rhode I sland Youth Poet Laureate for 2020 and 2021\, and former Artist in Residen ce for the Markaz Resource center for the 2021-2022 academic year.\n\nChar u Jain is a multi-disciplinary artist\, primarily working with acrylic fig urative painting processes. She also works in various forms of printmaking \, often depicting herself in a multitude of colors\, mediums\, and poses. Along with majoring in Art Practice at Stanford University\, she is on th e pre-medical track and will be attending Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai.\n\nGaosheng Yang is a multidisciplinary Hmong-American artist born in Sacramento\, California\, later relocated to Appleton\, Wisconsin\, and currently based in Stanford\, California. She is receiving a B.A. with Ho nors in Art Practice from Stanford University in June 2024. Yang’s thema tic work is centered on remembering\, representing\, and storytelling the intergenerational narratives of Asian and Hmong cultures through the synth esis of photography\, printmaking\, digital and physical collaging to crea te constructed portraits and landscapes. Her interest in the arts can be a ttributed to her parents as well as her early exposure and practice to cer amics from siblings and high school.\n\nVISITOR INFORMATION: Coulter Art G allery is located at 355 Roth Way in the McMurtry Building on Stanford cam pus. Visitor parking is free all day on weekends and after 4pm on weekdays \, except by the Oval. Alternatively\, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Tran sit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. The gallery is open Monday through Friday\, 11am to 5pm. This exhibition is open to Stan ford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free. \n\nConnect wit h the Department of Art & Art History! Subscribe to our mailing list and f ollow us on Instagram and Facebook. GEO:37.432803;-122.172395 LOCATION:Coulter Art Gallery SUMMARY:The Very First and Infinitely Last: 2024 Undergraduate Honors Thesi s Exhibition URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/2024_undergraduate_honors_t hesis_exhibition CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260809T224941Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43953108898202 DTSTART:20240430T180000Z DTEND:20240501T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The Department of Art & Art History presents The Very First and Infinitely Last\, the 2024 Undergraduate Honors Thesis Exhibition\, on vi ew April 16 through May 3 at the Coulter Art Gallery. Join us for the open ing reception on Thursday\, April 18\, 4-6pm. Culminating the yearlong und ergraduate honors thesis program in art practice\, this group exhibition s howcases works by Halima Ibrahim\, Charu Jain\, and Gaosheng Yang.\n\n⎯\ n\nThe suggestive title of this year's honors exhibit - 'The Very First an d Infinitely Last' - comprises both a quest for origin and a resistance to completion. The three featured artists explore the tension between a comp licated past and an uncertain future through a variety of discursive and m aterial practices that convey a profound historical\, cultural and emotion al resonance.\n\nHalima Ibrahim\, Charu Jain and Gaosheng Yang each bring to their work an aesthetic of displacement\, a commitment to reconnect wit h their sense of identity in a more intense and meaningful way based on th e delicate\, sometimes even deliberately unsettling experience of shared s elfhood.\n\nCharu evocatively combines colors and poses in her self-portra its to achieve a heightened emotional exposure and intimate dialogue with the audience. Gaosheng's paj ntaub-inspired photographic collages of the H mong community constitute a timeless act of intergenerational remembrance. Halima's devotional engagement with images of graffiti on the walls of Ca iro preserves the city's poetic legacy in the face of encroaching moderniz ation.\n\nThe Art and Art History Department is proud to support these art ists and to showcase their richly layered and expressive bodies of work\, which are the result of a Senior Year of intensive research\, experimentat ion\, collaborative exchange and creative vision.\n\n- Jonathan Calm\, Cur ator\n\n⎯\n\nHalima Ibrahim is an Egyptian American Artist and Poet curr ently based in and out of Cairo and the Bay area. She is a double Major in Art History and Art practice\, set to graduate from Stanford in June 2024 . Halima is a multimedia Photographer\, working with alternative photograp hy and printing techniques. Her work interrogates systemic and social issu es in the United States and in Egypt. Halima Ibrahim served as the Rhode I sland Youth Poet Laureate for 2020 and 2021\, and former Artist in Residen ce for the Markaz Resource center for the 2021-2022 academic year.\n\nChar u Jain is a multi-disciplinary artist\, primarily working with acrylic fig urative painting processes. She also works in various forms of printmaking \, often depicting herself in a multitude of colors\, mediums\, and poses. Along with majoring in Art Practice at Stanford University\, she is on th e pre-medical track and will be attending Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai.\n\nGaosheng Yang is a multidisciplinary Hmong-American artist born in Sacramento\, California\, later relocated to Appleton\, Wisconsin\, and currently based in Stanford\, California. She is receiving a B.A. with Ho nors in Art Practice from Stanford University in June 2024. Yang’s thema tic work is centered on remembering\, representing\, and storytelling the intergenerational narratives of Asian and Hmong cultures through the synth esis of photography\, printmaking\, digital and physical collaging to crea te constructed portraits and landscapes. Her interest in the arts can be a ttributed to her parents as well as her early exposure and practice to cer amics from siblings and high school.\n\nVISITOR INFORMATION: Coulter Art G allery is located at 355 Roth Way in the McMurtry Building on Stanford cam pus. Visitor parking is free all day on weekends and after 4pm on weekdays \, except by the Oval. Alternatively\, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Tran sit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. The gallery is open Monday through Friday\, 11am to 5pm. This exhibition is open to Stan ford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free. \n\nConnect wit h the Department of Art & Art History! Subscribe to our mailing list and f ollow us on Instagram and Facebook. GEO:37.432803;-122.172395 LOCATION:Coulter Art Gallery SUMMARY:The Very First and Infinitely Last: 2024 Undergraduate Honors Thesi s Exhibition URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/2024_undergraduate_honors_t hesis_exhibition CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260809T224941Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43953108901275 DTSTART:20240501T180000Z DTEND:20240502T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The Department of Art & Art History presents The Very First and Infinitely Last\, the 2024 Undergraduate Honors Thesis Exhibition\, on vi ew April 16 through May 3 at the Coulter Art Gallery. Join us for the open ing reception on Thursday\, April 18\, 4-6pm. Culminating the yearlong und ergraduate honors thesis program in art practice\, this group exhibition s howcases works by Halima Ibrahim\, Charu Jain\, and Gaosheng Yang.\n\n⎯\ n\nThe suggestive title of this year's honors exhibit - 'The Very First an d Infinitely Last' - comprises both a quest for origin and a resistance to completion. The three featured artists explore the tension between a comp licated past and an uncertain future through a variety of discursive and m aterial practices that convey a profound historical\, cultural and emotion al resonance.\n\nHalima Ibrahim\, Charu Jain and Gaosheng Yang each bring to their work an aesthetic of displacement\, a commitment to reconnect wit h their sense of identity in a more intense and meaningful way based on th e delicate\, sometimes even deliberately unsettling experience of shared s elfhood.\n\nCharu evocatively combines colors and poses in her self-portra its to achieve a heightened emotional exposure and intimate dialogue with the audience. Gaosheng's paj ntaub-inspired photographic collages of the H mong community constitute a timeless act of intergenerational remembrance. Halima's devotional engagement with images of graffiti on the walls of Ca iro preserves the city's poetic legacy in the face of encroaching moderniz ation.\n\nThe Art and Art History Department is proud to support these art ists and to showcase their richly layered and expressive bodies of work\, which are the result of a Senior Year of intensive research\, experimentat ion\, collaborative exchange and creative vision.\n\n- Jonathan Calm\, Cur ator\n\n⎯\n\nHalima Ibrahim is an Egyptian American Artist and Poet curr ently based in and out of Cairo and the Bay area. She is a double Major in Art History and Art practice\, set to graduate from Stanford in June 2024 . Halima is a multimedia Photographer\, working with alternative photograp hy and printing techniques. Her work interrogates systemic and social issu es in the United States and in Egypt. Halima Ibrahim served as the Rhode I sland Youth Poet Laureate for 2020 and 2021\, and former Artist in Residen ce for the Markaz Resource center for the 2021-2022 academic year.\n\nChar u Jain is a multi-disciplinary artist\, primarily working with acrylic fig urative painting processes. She also works in various forms of printmaking \, often depicting herself in a multitude of colors\, mediums\, and poses. Along with majoring in Art Practice at Stanford University\, she is on th e pre-medical track and will be attending Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai.\n\nGaosheng Yang is a multidisciplinary Hmong-American artist born in Sacramento\, California\, later relocated to Appleton\, Wisconsin\, and currently based in Stanford\, California. She is receiving a B.A. with Ho nors in Art Practice from Stanford University in June 2024. Yang’s thema tic work is centered on remembering\, representing\, and storytelling the intergenerational narratives of Asian and Hmong cultures through the synth esis of photography\, printmaking\, digital and physical collaging to crea te constructed portraits and landscapes. Her interest in the arts can be a ttributed to her parents as well as her early exposure and practice to cer amics from siblings and high school.\n\nVISITOR INFORMATION: Coulter Art G allery is located at 355 Roth Way in the McMurtry Building on Stanford cam pus. Visitor parking is free all day on weekends and after 4pm on weekdays \, except by the Oval. Alternatively\, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Tran sit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. The gallery is open Monday through Friday\, 11am to 5pm. This exhibition is open to Stan ford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free. \n\nConnect wit h the Department of Art & Art History! Subscribe to our mailing list and f ollow us on Instagram and Facebook. GEO:37.432803;-122.172395 LOCATION:Coulter Art Gallery SUMMARY:The Very First and Infinitely Last: 2024 Undergraduate Honors Thesi s Exhibition URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/2024_undergraduate_honors_t hesis_exhibition CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260809T224941Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43953108904348 DTSTART:20240502T180000Z DTEND:20240503T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The Department of Art & Art History presents The Very First and Infinitely Last\, the 2024 Undergraduate Honors Thesis Exhibition\, on vi ew April 16 through May 3 at the Coulter Art Gallery. Join us for the open ing reception on Thursday\, April 18\, 4-6pm. Culminating the yearlong und ergraduate honors thesis program in art practice\, this group exhibition s howcases works by Halima Ibrahim\, Charu Jain\, and Gaosheng Yang.\n\n⎯\ n\nThe suggestive title of this year's honors exhibit - 'The Very First an d Infinitely Last' - comprises both a quest for origin and a resistance to completion. The three featured artists explore the tension between a comp licated past and an uncertain future through a variety of discursive and m aterial practices that convey a profound historical\, cultural and emotion al resonance.\n\nHalima Ibrahim\, Charu Jain and Gaosheng Yang each bring to their work an aesthetic of displacement\, a commitment to reconnect wit h their sense of identity in a more intense and meaningful way based on th e delicate\, sometimes even deliberately unsettling experience of shared s elfhood.\n\nCharu evocatively combines colors and poses in her self-portra its to achieve a heightened emotional exposure and intimate dialogue with the audience. Gaosheng's paj ntaub-inspired photographic collages of the H mong community constitute a timeless act of intergenerational remembrance. Halima's devotional engagement with images of graffiti on the walls of Ca iro preserves the city's poetic legacy in the face of encroaching moderniz ation.\n\nThe Art and Art History Department is proud to support these art ists and to showcase their richly layered and expressive bodies of work\, which are the result of a Senior Year of intensive research\, experimentat ion\, collaborative exchange and creative vision.\n\n- Jonathan Calm\, Cur ator\n\n⎯\n\nHalima Ibrahim is an Egyptian American Artist and Poet curr ently based in and out of Cairo and the Bay area. She is a double Major in Art History and Art practice\, set to graduate from Stanford in June 2024 . Halima is a multimedia Photographer\, working with alternative photograp hy and printing techniques. Her work interrogates systemic and social issu es in the United States and in Egypt. Halima Ibrahim served as the Rhode I sland Youth Poet Laureate for 2020 and 2021\, and former Artist in Residen ce for the Markaz Resource center for the 2021-2022 academic year.\n\nChar u Jain is a multi-disciplinary artist\, primarily working with acrylic fig urative painting processes. She also works in various forms of printmaking \, often depicting herself in a multitude of colors\, mediums\, and poses. Along with majoring in Art Practice at Stanford University\, she is on th e pre-medical track and will be attending Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai.\n\nGaosheng Yang is a multidisciplinary Hmong-American artist born in Sacramento\, California\, later relocated to Appleton\, Wisconsin\, and currently based in Stanford\, California. She is receiving a B.A. with Ho nors in Art Practice from Stanford University in June 2024. Yang’s thema tic work is centered on remembering\, representing\, and storytelling the intergenerational narratives of Asian and Hmong cultures through the synth esis of photography\, printmaking\, digital and physical collaging to crea te constructed portraits and landscapes. Her interest in the arts can be a ttributed to her parents as well as her early exposure and practice to cer amics from siblings and high school.\n\nVISITOR INFORMATION: Coulter Art G allery is located at 355 Roth Way in the McMurtry Building on Stanford cam pus. Visitor parking is free all day on weekends and after 4pm on weekdays \, except by the Oval. Alternatively\, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Tran sit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. The gallery is open Monday through Friday\, 11am to 5pm. This exhibition is open to Stan ford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free. \n\nConnect wit h the Department of Art & Art History! Subscribe to our mailing list and f ollow us on Instagram and Facebook. GEO:37.432803;-122.172395 LOCATION:Coulter Art Gallery SUMMARY:The Very First and Infinitely Last: 2024 Undergraduate Honors Thesi s Exhibition URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/2024_undergraduate_honors_t hesis_exhibition CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260809T224941Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43953108907421 DTSTART:20240503T180000Z DTEND:20240504T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The Department of Art & Art History presents The Very First and Infinitely Last\, the 2024 Undergraduate Honors Thesis Exhibition\, on vi ew April 16 through May 3 at the Coulter Art Gallery. Join us for the open ing reception on Thursday\, April 18\, 4-6pm. Culminating the yearlong und ergraduate honors thesis program in art practice\, this group exhibition s howcases works by Halima Ibrahim\, Charu Jain\, and Gaosheng Yang.\n\n⎯\ n\nThe suggestive title of this year's honors exhibit - 'The Very First an d Infinitely Last' - comprises both a quest for origin and a resistance to completion. The three featured artists explore the tension between a comp licated past and an uncertain future through a variety of discursive and m aterial practices that convey a profound historical\, cultural and emotion al resonance.\n\nHalima Ibrahim\, Charu Jain and Gaosheng Yang each bring to their work an aesthetic of displacement\, a commitment to reconnect wit h their sense of identity in a more intense and meaningful way based on th e delicate\, sometimes even deliberately unsettling experience of shared s elfhood.\n\nCharu evocatively combines colors and poses in her self-portra its to achieve a heightened emotional exposure and intimate dialogue with the audience. Gaosheng's paj ntaub-inspired photographic collages of the H mong community constitute a timeless act of intergenerational remembrance. Halima's devotional engagement with images of graffiti on the walls of Ca iro preserves the city's poetic legacy in the face of encroaching moderniz ation.\n\nThe Art and Art History Department is proud to support these art ists and to showcase their richly layered and expressive bodies of work\, which are the result of a Senior Year of intensive research\, experimentat ion\, collaborative exchange and creative vision.\n\n- Jonathan Calm\, Cur ator\n\n⎯\n\nHalima Ibrahim is an Egyptian American Artist and Poet curr ently based in and out of Cairo and the Bay area. She is a double Major in Art History and Art practice\, set to graduate from Stanford in June 2024 . Halima is a multimedia Photographer\, working with alternative photograp hy and printing techniques. Her work interrogates systemic and social issu es in the United States and in Egypt. Halima Ibrahim served as the Rhode I sland Youth Poet Laureate for 2020 and 2021\, and former Artist in Residen ce for the Markaz Resource center for the 2021-2022 academic year.\n\nChar u Jain is a multi-disciplinary artist\, primarily working with acrylic fig urative painting processes. She also works in various forms of printmaking \, often depicting herself in a multitude of colors\, mediums\, and poses. Along with majoring in Art Practice at Stanford University\, she is on th e pre-medical track and will be attending Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai.\n\nGaosheng Yang is a multidisciplinary Hmong-American artist born in Sacramento\, California\, later relocated to Appleton\, Wisconsin\, and currently based in Stanford\, California. She is receiving a B.A. with Ho nors in Art Practice from Stanford University in June 2024. Yang’s thema tic work is centered on remembering\, representing\, and storytelling the intergenerational narratives of Asian and Hmong cultures through the synth esis of photography\, printmaking\, digital and physical collaging to crea te constructed portraits and landscapes. Her interest in the arts can be a ttributed to her parents as well as her early exposure and practice to cer amics from siblings and high school.\n\nVISITOR INFORMATION: Coulter Art G allery is located at 355 Roth Way in the McMurtry Building on Stanford cam pus. Visitor parking is free all day on weekends and after 4pm on weekdays \, except by the Oval. Alternatively\, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Tran sit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. The gallery is open Monday through Friday\, 11am to 5pm. This exhibition is open to Stan ford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free. \n\nConnect wit h the Department of Art & Art History! Subscribe to our mailing list and f ollow us on Instagram and Facebook. GEO:37.432803;-122.172395 LOCATION:Coulter Art Gallery SUMMARY:The Very First and Infinitely Last: 2024 Undergraduate Honors Thesi s Exhibition URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/2024_undergraduate_honors_t hesis_exhibition CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR