Skirball Tapes: Emily Barker

Emily Barker (b. 1992, San Diego, CA) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles, most recently awarded the Creative Capital grant and Wynn Newhouse award, exhibited as part of the Whitney Museum of Art’s 2022 Biennial; and the Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt’s exhibition Crip Time alongside Mike Kelly, Isa Genzkin and Cady Noland. Barker has most recently given artist talks at the Royal College of Art and Design in London, Otis College of Art and Design, at UCLA, and at The Whitney Museum.

Catharine Stimpson is a University Professsor at New York University. Currently the editor of a book series for the University of Chicago Press, she was the founding editor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Her many other publications include a novel, Class Notes; a selection of essays, Where the Meanings Are: Feminism and Cultural Spaces; and a book on Gertrude Stein, which is under contract to the University of Chicago Press. In addition, more than 150 of her monographs, essays, stories, and reviews have appeared in Transatlantic Review, The Nation, The New York Times Book Review, Critical Inquiry, boundary 2, and other publications. Dean Stimpson is the Chair of the National Advisory Committee of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and past president of the Association of Graduate Schools. She is former chair of the New York State Humanities Council, the Ms. Magazine Board of Scholars, and the National Council for Research on Women, as well as past president of the Modern Language Association. She serves on the boards of other educational and cultural organizations, and from 1994-2000, was on the board of PBS. She has been awarded both Fulbright and Rockefeller Humanities Fellowships, as well as grants from the Ford Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.