“Meet the Artist” with Mona Bozorgi and Lorena Molina

Thursday, June 18, 2026

• Doors at 5:30pm
• Artist talk at 6pm
• 25 Dederick Street, Kingston, NY
• RSVP

On Thursday, June 18, we welcome current Woodstock AIRs Mona Bozorgi and Lorena Molina to "Meet the Artist" night at CPW.

Mona Bozorgi’s presentation will explore her recent body of work, Threads of Freedom. Through a multisensory and speculative approach, the work considers photographs not only as representations but as reciprocal encounters or co-responses. Developed while away from Iran during the Woman, Life, Freedom Movement, the project emerges from the artist’s experience of witnessing and responding to widely circulated images of Iranian women.

Lorena Molina will present work from two ongoing bodies of work, This Must Be the Place and Soy el clima. For the past six years, Molina has been exploring questions of identity in the margins. She views the margins both as places where extreme violence and pain happen and as places for resisting, dreaming, healing, and thriving.

Join us on select Thursday evenings at CPW, when we host illuminating talks with local and visiting artists. "Meet the Artist" allows the public to get to know new work, to hear about artistic processes, and to meet friends and other local artists. The evening takes place at CPW’s gallery at 25 Dederick Street in Kingston, NY. It is free and open to the public. Coffee, tea, and snacks are served.

"Meet the Artist" is made possible by generous grants from the Arnold & Augusta Newman Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Mona Bozorgi is an artist-scholar-educator whose interdisciplinary practice explores the entanglement of visibility and response-ability, emphasizing the interconnectedness of material and discursive forces in contemporary photographic practices. As an Iranian-born artist, her work confronts historical exclusions based on gender and provides alternative ways of understanding the contemporary self. This focus emerges from her early engagement with the complexity and challenges of representing women’s bodies in a religiously conservative society. Bozorgi’s recent work blends textiles, photography, and installation, troubles the traditional view of photographs as flat objects, and demonstrates the entanglement between the materiality of photographs and their meanings. Bozorgi holds a Ph.D. in Fine Arts with a focus on Critical Studies and Artistic Practice from Texas Tech University and an MFA in Photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design. She is an Assistant Professor of Photography in the Department of Art at Florida State University.

Lorena Molina is a Salvadoran multidisciplinary artist, educator, and curator. She is an Assistant Professor of Studio Art Practice at San Francisco State University and the founder and director of Third Space Gallery, a community space that supports and highlights BIPOC artists. Her work is shaped by her experience as an immigrant and by the afterlives of forced migration, colonialism, and imperial violence. Drawing from family oral histories, ancestral food practices, and everyday ecologies, Molina examines displacement, the politics of visibility, and what it means to return when return is not possible.