Senior Speaker: Frankie Kadir Bademci-Vaughan

Frankie Kadir Bademci-Vaughan is a performance and sculpture artist from East Hampton, New York, and is graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in New Media and Theatre and Performance, as well as a minor in Museum Studies.

Combining his background in performance and time-based new media, Frankie finds his interests lie within a broad variety of mediums. Exploring how the body has its limits, exploring the idea of belonging, as well as time and space, he curates and produces visual languages that are politically motivated, challenge traditional exhibition practices, and manipulate structure and its intention.

Holding a passion for curating and producing artwork intended for a public audience, Frankie is currently the Public Arts Coordinator at Purchase College, and will work with six student artists to commission and install public art murals and sculptures on campus in May 2023.

Frankie has also served as a resident assistant for the past three years with the Office of Residential Life, and will continue to do so in August.

Frankie anticipates furthering his intellectual rigor by beginning his studies as an MFA/MA student later this year by earning an MFA in Sculpture and MA in Art History at Purchase College.

He will also as continue to work with the Office of Residential Life as a resident assistant, and hopes to begin his teaching assistantships next spring.