Angeline Gragasin
Part-time Lecturer
Email
gragasia@newschool.edu
Office Location
L - 2 West 13th Street
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Angeline Gragasin is a writer, filmmaker, and artist who tells stories about ecology, memory, and power. She is also an organizer, educator, and cooperative entrepreneur. Gragasin is the founder and director of Happy Family Night Market, a grassroots community organization that celebrates the Asian diaspora and deepens cross-cultural exchange through food, art, and education. She is also a mentor at NEW INC, the New Museum's incubator for people working at the intersection of art, design, and technology. Her writing has been featured in publications like Screen Slate, and The Creative Independent; her films have been supported by institutions like ZINEBI, Clermont-Ferrand, BAM, and UnionDocs; and she has been invited to speak at conferences like Harvard Law School's "Just Food?" Forum for Land Use, Rights, and Ecology, and on podcasts like The Ideaspace and Asian, Not Asian. Gragasin teaches courses on creative entrepreneurship and time-based media.
Degrees Held
MFA Cinema Arts - Screenwriting
Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema, CUNY Brooklyn College
BA Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities
The University of Chicago
Professional Affiliation
Member, NYC Network of Worker Cooperatives (NYCNoWC)
Member, US Federation of Worker Cooperatives (UFWC)
Recent Publications
On Growing Through Chaos
The Impossible Case of Sonny Nguyen
The Power and Legacy of Agnès Varda's Cinematic Vision
Performances and Appearances
Artist Angeline Gragasin on the Art of Resiliency
What to Measure and What Not to Measure
Happy Family Night Market: Community Engaged Design
Research Interests
collaboration, community building, narrative and storytelling, public art, solidarity economics, ecology, ancestral skills, foodways, stewardship, systems change
Portfolio
angelinegragasin.com