{"id":42,"date":"2025-11-03T09:24:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T14:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/arthistoryblog\/?p=42"},"modified":"2025-11-03T09:24:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T14:24:37","slug":"prof-alpesh-patel-to-speak-at-rits-glass-visiting-artist-lecture-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/arthistoryblog\/2025\/11\/03\/prof-alpesh-patel-to-speak-at-rits-glass-visiting-artist-lecture-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Alpesh Patel to speak at RIT&#8217;s Glass Visiting Artist Lecture Series"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>11 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 4<br>Booth Hall, room 3634<\/strong> Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester NY<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About Alpesh&nbsp;Kantilal Patel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alpesh Kantilal Patel\u2019s (they\/he) art historical scholarship, curation, and criticism reflect their queer, anti-racist, and transcultural approach to contemporary art. They are&nbsp;an associate professor of global contemporary art at Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University. Recently, they were an artist in residence at Headlands Center for the Arts and curator at large at UrbanGlass, Brooklyn, where they organized a series of exhibitions under the theme, \u201cForever Becoming: Decolonization, Materiality, and Trans* Subjectivity.\u201d Patel will talk about their current research and how these critical touchstones in queerness, anti-racism, and transculturalism has led into several publications and curatorial projects within the world of contemporary glass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 4Booth Hall, room 3634 Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester NY About Alpesh&nbsp;Kantilal Patel Alpesh Kantilal Patel\u2019s (they\/he) art historical scholarship, curation, and criticism reflect their queer, anti-racist, and transcultural approach to contemporary art. They are&nbsp;an associate professor of global contemporary art at Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University. Recently, they were an artist in residence at Headlands Center for the Arts and curator at large at UrbanGlass, Brooklyn, where they organized a series of exhibitions under the theme, \u201cForever Becoming: Decolonization, Materiality, and Trans* Subjectivity.\u201d Patel will talk about their current research and how these critical touchstones in queerness, anti-racism, and transculturalism has led into several publications and curatorial projects within the world of contemporary glass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3268,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[7,23,22,24],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","tag-art-history","tag-glass","tag-patel","tag-transcultural","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}