Artist Talk: Thursday, September 18, 2025; 5:00pm; Pruyne Lecture Hall, Fayerweather Hall

Arm & arm is a space, a stage, a classroom, a porch, a vessel, for holding, for creating safety, and dialogue within. An invitation to work within it, around it, because of it. Becoming and echoing, forms, structures, patterns, and ways that Black, Brown, Indigenous, queer, trans, non-binary, two spirit, people of color form kinship, radical community, spaces of survival and dialogues rooted in resistance.

Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo is an artist, abolitionist, educator, storyteller and person of multitudes. Through a practice based in the printed multiple, community-based work, performance and installation building, they invite the viewer to recall and share their own lived narratives, offering power and weight to the creation of a larger dialogue around the telling of Black, Indigenous, Queer, Trans, People of color’s stories.