Lecture
CloseMendi and Keith Obadike
Paul Rand Lecture Series in Graphic Design
Thu, Feb 2, 2023, 9:30 – 11 PM ET
Mendi and Keith Obadike begin the Spring 2023 Paul Rand Lecture Series in Graphic Design, delivering an in-person talk on Thursday evening, open to the Yale community.
Mendi + Keith Obadike are artists and composers. They have exhibited and performed at The New Museum, Whitechapel Gallery, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Museum of Modern Art. Their projects include a series of large-scale, public sound art works including Free/Phase (Chicago), Sonic Migration (Philadelphia), Blues Speaker and Compass Song (New York). Their honors include a Rockefeller New Media Arts Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award. Mendi received a BA in English from Spelman College and a PhD in Literature from Duke University. She is an associate professor at Pratt Institute. Keith received a BA in Art from North Carolina Central University and an MFA in Sound Design from Yale University. He is a professor at Cornell University.
The Paul Rand Lecture Series is made possible through the generosity of the Paul Rand (’85 M.A.H.) Annual Lectureship in Design Fund.
Poster design by Simon Charwey, Graphic Design MFA ‘24.
