Females in Film: Meiying Thai

508 W. 28th St,New York NY 10001

13 March, 2021

Description

Females in Film Showcase: Free Screening and Meet and Greet with Meiying Thai, Curator/Artist In celebration of International Women's Month, join us for High Line Nine's inaugural Females in Film Showcase. Sign up for a thirty minute free screening of short, stunningly choreographic films from Cafe Telephone. The time slot will include a Q & A with curator and artist, Meiying Thai. Only five seats available per screening. Face coverings required. About Cafe Telephone: Founded in 2015, Cafe Telephone is an on-going series of pop-up artist salons curated by New York City-based artist and curator, Meiying Thai. The Cafe produces and showcases experimental multimedia collaborations in intimate gatherings and environments. Cafe Telephone has evolved over the years from DIY artist happenings to large-scale global “Telephone games,” the largest which featured sixty artists based in fourteen different countries, to its current form, which centers dance and motion-based work in a series titled ‘A Night in Motion.’ Inspired by travel, the magic of cafe culture and rooted in the idea of cross-cultural conversation, Cafe Telephone also serves as a platform for a growing community of international artists. About Meiying: Meiying Thai is a Vietnamese-American multidisciplinary artist and independent curator, born and raised in NYC. She began curating independent exhibitions in New York in 2015, and is currently the Exhibitions Coordinator and Artist Liaison of De Buck Gallery in Chelsea. She received her BFA in Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in 2015, with an added focus in Art History and Global Aesthetics & Politics. Her performance background includes almost a decade of classical ballet training at the School of American Ballet and seven years of performing with the New York City Ballet at Lincoln Center. As a fine artist, she works in a broad range of media including drawing, painting, photography, and performance, all of which explore themes of love, healing, dual-identity, movement, the body, and fantasy. She has exhibited in both solo and group independent exhibitions in New York City and Baltimore since 2015 and her work is held in private collections nationally and abroad.