Brainiac Rising! in Vogue
Posted on | April 26, 2010 | 2 Comments
Congrats, Sarah!
From the Magazine: Sarah Lewis Co-Curates the SITE Santa Fe Biennial
I’ve always done too much,” Sarah Lewis says in a tone that falls somewhere between self-mockery and pride. Thirty years old and whiplash fit, with honors degrees from Harvard and Oxford under her belt and on the verge of a Ph.D. from Yale, she has two books nearing completion, and is co-curating the SITE Santa Fe biennial, the closely watched art show, which opens next month. Rocco Landesman, the chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, wants to create a special initiative for her at the NEA in Washington, D.C. She has become a young woman to watch. As her friend Agnes Gund, MoMA’s president emerita, said the other day, “You don’t know what she’ll end up doing—there are so many possibilities.”
Read the rest of the article about Lewis in the May 2010 issue of Vogue at the link above.
Read more about the Biennial here.
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April 27th, 2010 @ 10:38 am
I am avid reader of Vogue and this is the first time I held my head in honor because of my joy reading a Vogue article. When most see Vogue basking in its glory on the fashion magazine heavens; people see beautiful clothes hanging on hangers in the shape of women representing the hunger for vanity in our society. And to be honest I enjoy the fashion and clothes that Vogue embraces and shares with its readers.
However, I really do appreciate their intellectual dialogue sharing the power of women in not only America, but the world. “Brainiac Rising” gives a different, respectable perspective that intelligent African-American women exist in the up-coming generations and that the country is in good hands when the “Baby Boomers” and “Make Love Not War” generations retire and pass the torch. I think there is a stigma that pop culture that leaves young African-American women in the shadows of so many men and women, but Sarah Lewis and the Vogue article sheds a necessary light on society for all to see. (applause)
June 2nd, 2010 @ 10:00 am
FInally got around to reading this article and it was inspiring, to say the least. To be so accomplished at just 30…it just motivates me to keep doing what I’m doing and to do even more. Thanks for sharing this!