OHMA 2022-23 Teaching Artist Sayre Quevedo will present an artist talk on his work and approaches to his documentary practice.

About this event

OHMA 2022-23 Teaching Artist Sayre Quevedo will present a virtual artist talk on his work, exploring the ways that his documentary practice is shaped by his personal history and intimate relationships, literature, and film. He will also present a new work in progress entitled Orexis.This event will be in-person at the Bronx River Foodway and is part of OHMA's Thursday Oral History Salon Series. More details on location will be provided after registration.

Sayre Quevedo is an artist and journalist. He works across mediums to tell stories about intimacy, identity, and human relationships. Quevedo began as a reporter with Youth Radio in Oakland, California at the age of 15 in 2008. Since then his work has been featured on NPR, Marketplace, BBC Short Cuts, Love Me on the CBC, McSweeney's and Radio Atlas.
In 2018 his piece 'Espera' received the Third Coast/RHDF Directors' Choice Award and his other piece 'The Quevedos' was nominated for a Best Audio Documentary award by the International Documentary Association (IDA). The following year he won the 2019 Third Coast/RHDF Gold Award for Best Documentary for 'The Return' . It was also nominated for a Best Audio Documentary award by the IDA, his second nomination two years in a row.
Quevedo was the Fall 2019 Podcaster-In-Residence for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and an Associate Producer for The Daily at The New York Times and NPR's Latino USA and a Producer for VICE News.

This event series is supported in part by INCITE's Paul F. Lazarsfeld Lecture Series endowment, which supports programming that embodies and honors the late Professor's commitment to improving methodological approaches that address concerns of vital cultural and social significance.

Image Description: A photo of Sayre Quevedo looking at the camera, wearing gold earrings and a blue floral shirt.

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