Plonsker Family Lecture in Contemporary Art: Stephanie Syjuco

The Plonsker Family Lecture Series in Contemporary Art, established in 1994 by Madeleine Plonsker, Harvey Plonsker ’61 and their son, Ted Plonsker ’86, examines current issues in contemporary art. This year we will host a lecture by artist Stephanie Syjuco.

Stephanie Syjuco will present the Plonsker Family Lecture in Contemporary Art beginning at 6 p.m. at the Williams Inn Ballroom.

The lecture will be preceded by a reception from 5 to 6 p.m. 

The lecture will be recorded and uploaded to our YouTube channel. 

Registration is appreciated here.

About the Artist

Stephanie Syjuco works in photography, sculpture, and installation, moving from handmade and craft-inspired mediums to digital editing and archive excavations. Recently, she has focused on how photography and image-based processes are implicated in the construction of racialized, exclusionary narratives of American history and citizenship. Born in the Philippines in 1974, Syjuco received her MFA from Stanford University and BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship Award, a Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Award and a Tiffany Foundation Award. Her work is in numerous collections, including at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, The Getty Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, among others. She was a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow at the National Museum of American History in Washington DC in 2019–20 and is featured in the acclaimed PBS documentary series Art21: Art in the Twenty-First Century. A long-time educator, she is an Associate Professor in Sculpture at the University of California, Berkeley. She lives in Oakland, California.

Getting here:

The event will take place in the ballroom of the Williams Inn, located at the foot of Spring Street. There is a limited amount of parking available immediately outside the hotel, and there is a large public parking lot nearby.

What to expect once you’re here:

- The reception before the lecture will include food as well as non-alcoholic and alcoholic drinks.
- This is not a masked event, and the Inn is not a scent-free environment.
- All spaces at the Inn are ADA accessible.
- There are gendered bathrooms as well as an all-gender single-stall restroom on the same floor as the lecture.
- For more questions about accessibility or to make a request, please contact Communications Manager Rebecca Dravis at rmd3@williams.edu.