Design Lecture Series: Shiraz Abdullahi Gallab

Image courtesy of the artist

“Scraps, Verbalized”

This lecture is presented as part of the fall 2021 Design Lecture Series, free and open to all. Registration is required.

Shiraz Abdullahi Gallab is a designer, educator and publisher who was born but not raised in Khartoum, Sudan. She is interested in language, form and specificity, alongside media, Black studies and popular culture. In her work and research, Shiraz pursues text as a generative device and publishing as a source of disruption. She is the founding curator and co-author of Samples and Parallels, a publication that invites participants to respond to an appropriated text. In 2018, she wrote and released Headgear, a collection of fragmented passages designed and programmed by Becca Abbe. In 2017, she published Sapphire Tears, a soft poster that addresses her emotional downpour.

Shiraz is an Assistant Professor at Rhode Island School of Design and has previously taught at California College of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Purchase College, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. She holds an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BA from the University of Chicago.