Part of the Practice
What is social practice, and how does it affect the ways we navigate our lives and make change in the world? Join artists, scholars, and collaborators from Social Practice CUNY on Part of the Practice, hosted by Catherine LaSota, as we discuss our individual art practices, our communities, and the role of socially-engaged art in our work for social justice.
Part of the Practice
19: Citation Needed with Cristina Ferrigno and Ari Wolff
This is a special episode about Social Practice CUNY connections and collaborations! Host Catherine LaSota chats with Ari Wolff (SPCUNY Student Fellow 2022-23) and Cristina Ferrigno (SPCUNY Student Fellow 2021-22) about their project Citation Needed, where Ari is Founder and Director, and Cristina is Studio Director. This conversation is about finding the partners and communities that lift you up, the importance of meeting together across experiences and generations, combining your skill sets, and so much more.
FULL TRANSCRIPT of Episode 19 available here.
About our guests:
Cristina Ferrigno is a Colombian-born, Brooklyn-raised artist currently based in Queens. She received her BFA from MICA in 2009 and earned her MFA in Studio Art from Queens College in 2022 with a focus on socially engaged art as a part of the inaugural Social Practice CUNY cohort. Her work explores questions of identity and cultural “inbetween-ness” as a transnational adoptee, using photographic processes, archive building, and community engagement to create combined media works and long-term interdisciplinary projects. Cristina currently works as a teaching artist with Citation Needed, the Queens Public Library, Sunnyside Arts, and other community-based organizations.
Ari Wolff is an NYC-based artist working in text, installation, pedagogy, and publication. Her work examines language as a visual material, systems of learning, and sensory perception as a form of translation. In 2022, she founded Citation Needed, an intergenerational publishing initiative dedicated to the production of artist books by children. Wolff's work has been exhibited at Collarworks, Plaxall Gallery, The Brick, Longwood Gallery, The Foundry, Glasshouse, Para//el, Molasses Books, and the New York Queer Zine Fair (NYQZF). Wolff's research on publishing as a social practice has been presented at the Center for Book Arts Conference and is forthcoming in a special issue of Visual Art Research focused on radical publications in Summer 2025.
More about Citation Needed:
Website: citationneeded.xyz
Instagram: @citation_needed_press
More about Cristina Ferrigno:
Website: cmferrigno.com
More about Ari Wolff:
Website: ariwolff.work
Instagram: @ariwolfff
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Thank you to our podcast editor Jade Iseri-Ramos, and thank you to Gaius LaSota for our Part of the Practice music.
Part of the Practice logo courtesy of Maliyah Mohamed.
Social Practice CUNY is funded by the Mellon Foundation.