NEW YORK BLOGGER PADDY JOHNSON PRESENTS LECTURE AT WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE ON OCTOBER 1

Westchester Community College presents a free lecture by Paddy Johnson, founding editor of the New York-based art blog Art Fag City on Monday, October 1 at 4:30 p.m. in the Davis Auditorium of the Gateway Center. The lecture is open to the public.
 
Johnson has established a significant profile as a sharp, incisive writer on the technologies, personalities, and economics of contemporary art. Art Fag City features exhibition reviews, interviews, and original journalism predicated on providing exposure to emerging contemporary art and under-known artists. “Engaging in smart, critical debate,” writes Johnson, “helps us better define and shape the world we want.”
 
In addition to her work on the blog, Johnson has been published in New York Magazine, artreview.com, Art in America, The Daily, Print Magazine, Time Out NY, The Reeler, The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post, The Guardian, and New York Press. She is also the Art Editor for The L Magazine.  Johnson lectures widely about art and the Internet at venues including Yale University, Parsons, Rutgers, South by Southwest, and the Whitney Independent Study Program. In 2008, she served on the board of the Rockefeller Foundation New Media Fellowships and became the first blogger to earn a Creative Capital Arts Writers grant from the Creative Capital Foundation; she later won the 2010 Village Voice award for Best Art Blog.

Westchester Community College’s Fine Arts Gallery supports the teaching functions of the college with a diverse range of exhibitions, lectures, and colloquia. Exhibitions feature work by artists of regional, national, and international reputation who reflect the diversity of the college’s student body. The gallery also features exhibits of student and faculty work.
 
This exhibition program is supplemented with periodic gallery talks by visiting artists and scholars. Gallery exhibitions and events are free and open to the public. By providing a space in which individuals from both within and without of the college community can gather for stimulation, reflection, and exchange, the Fine Arts Gallery strives to enhance Westchester Community College’s commitment to lifelong learning and community service.