Public Art Fund Talks: Adrienne Elise Tarver

A conversation between artist Adrienne Elise Tarver and Jenée-Daria Strand, Assistant Curator at Public Art Fund. The discussion delved into the inspiration and references in Tarver’s Public Art Fund exhibition She who sits, presented on JCDecaux bus shelters in New York City, Chicago, and Boston. They discussed the work’s cultural connections historically and presently, and connect the works in the exhibition to other chapters of Tarver’s artistic practice.

Taking a Seat: Resistance and Agency in Public Spaces - Logan Center for the Arts: University of Chicago - November 8, 2024:

A panel discussion featuring artist Adrienne Elise Tarver, historian Adam Green, journalist Natalie Moore, and curator Jenée-Daria Strand, as they discuss representation, agency, and resistance in relation to Tarver’s Public Art Fund exhibition, She who sits.

Talk at Boston University for Public Art Fund Project, “She Who Sits” - October 22, 2024

Virtual Talk for “Roots, Water, Air” Exhibition at the Brattleboro Museum with curator, Daricia Mia DeMarr - February 6, 2025

Walkthrough of “To Learn the Dark” exhibition at Ochi in Los Angeles with Art Noir - February 18, 2023

ARTNOIR Virtual Visit with Adrienne Elise Tarver - February 2022

@adrienne__elise in her Brooklyn studio

Podcast Guest on Cerebral Women Art Talks Podcast with Phyllis Hollis

Storm King Art Center | Art + Nature Talks: Larry Ossei-Mensah in conversation with Joiri Minaya and Adrienne Elise Tarver

Podcast Guest on I Like Your Work Podcast with Erika Hess

Exhibition Talk for Escape at Victori+Mo (now Dinner Gallery) in New York, NY - January - March 2020


Exquisite Corpse: Contemporary Conversations is a new podcast series from the National Academy of Design featuring conversations between National Academicians. This podcast is a space for the artists and architects who have shaped this institution to connect, discuss, and ask questions of each other. National Academy Director of Programs and Series Host Adrienne Elise Tarver takes you into the organization that is contending with its almost 200-year history and finding its place in the 21st century.