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VALS Visiting Artist Lecture Series with Izzy Barber

Published: October 24, 2025; Aithor: Julia Sonrisa

When: October 28, 2025
Where: Dock 72 in the Brooklyn Navy Yard

Address: 1 Dock 72, Way Brooklyn, NY 11205, United States

Phone: +1 (212) 326-40-22

Web: https://dock72.com/

Join us for an exciting evening as we welcome Visiting Artist Fellow Izzy Barber to the VALS Visiting Artist Lecture Series at Dock 72 in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Hosted by our Fine Arts MFA program, VALS is one of several free and open-to-the-public events we offer each year. Follow us on Instagram @prattfineart to see what’s coming up, and we look forward to welcoming you soon!

Izzy Barber is from Gowanus, Brooklyn. She received her MFA from the New York Studio School in 2017 and received a Bachelor’s Degree in Studio Arts and Human Rights from Bard College in May 2011. She currently lives and works in Queens, NY. She paints from life.

Previous VALS artists include: Diana Al-Hadid, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Judith Bernstein, Michael Berryhill, Wafaa Bilal, The Black School, Flaviu Cacoveanu, Pradeep Dalal, Abigail D. Deville, Nicole Eisenman, Florencia Escudero, Rochelle Feinstein, Keltie Ferris, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Scherezade García, Rico Gatson, Jeffrey Gibson, Mark Thomas Gibson, Nancy Grossman, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Edgar Heap of Birds, James Hyde, Laura Kalman, Lotus Kang, Nina Katchadourian, Elektra KB, eri king, Baseera Khan, Savannah Knoop, Leigh Ledare, Jennie Jieun Lee, Ann Lewis, Tau Lewis, Kalup Linzey, Ibrahim Mahama, Park McArthur, Alicia Mersy, Wardell Milan, Ayanah Moor, Lavar Munroe, Narcissister, Rashaad Newsome, Catherine Opie, Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, Alexis Rockman, Aura Satz, Shazia Sikander, Lorna Simpson, Nyugen E. Smith, Wendy Red Star, Dan Walsh, Hu Xiangqian, and Frank Wang Yefen.

We are grateful to the Robert Lehman Foundation for supporting this series.

Time: 6:00 pm EDT

Free!

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