Tanja Softic´ - Wexler Gallery

Text Publications and Conference Presentations2007“The Water’s Edge: Works on Paper by Ilgim Veryeri-Alaca,” University of Richmond Museums.2003“Things Felt and Things Known: Drawing Memory.” Session title “Exile, Displacement, Memory.”Chair: Endi Poskovic, Whittier College. Paper presented at the 2003 College Art Conference,New York.2000“Women in Sarajevo’s Cultural and Community Resistance 1992 – 1995.” Paper presented atthe Conference on Contribution of Women in the Intellectual Tradition of Islam: Past andPresent, St. John’s University, Queens, New York.1998“Drawing on its Own.” Organizer of the panel held at the Southeastern College Art Conferencein Miami, Florida.“Art as an Instrument of Memory.” Session title “Traversing Boundaries and the Promised Land.”Chair: Pok Chi-Lau, University of Kansas. Paper presented at the 1998 College Art AssociationConference, Toronto, Canada.1997“Past in Another Country: Issues of Distance, Memory and Cultural Transition in Studio Art.”Chair of the session held at the 1997 College Art Association Conference, New York.1996“Art as an Instrument of Memory.” Session Title “Traversing Boundaries and the PromisedLand.” Chair: Julia Kjelgaard. Paper presented at the Southern Graphics Council Conference,Morgantown, West Virginia.1995“Modern vs. Postmodern – a Futile Exchange.” Session title: “An Inquiry into the Life ofSymbols.” Chair: J. W. Mahoney, Hirshorn Museum. Paper presented at the SoutheasternCollege Art Conference. Washington, D. C.“M.F.A. in the Nineties,” panel moderated by Leslie Luebbers of the Art Museum of theUniversity of Memphis. Southern Graphics Council Annual Conference, University of Tennessee atKnoxville.“Teaching Printmaking in the Culture of Instant Gratification Seekers.”Southern Graphic Council Newsletter, Winter 1995.1994“M.F.A. Programs and Degrees: A Study in Natural Selection.”Session title: “MFA Reexamined.” Chair: Nevin Mercede, University of South Florida. Paperpresented at the Southeastern College Art Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana.1993“Activism Vs. Aesthetics in Art: Dangerous Exclusions.”Session title: “Aesthetic and Politics.” Chair: Dr. Howard Risatti, Virginia CommonwealthUniversity. Paper presented at the Southeastern College Annual Arts Conference, Durham, NorthCarolina. “Mimi Smith: the Retrospective,” Art Papers, Atlanta, Georgia. May-June 1993.