The Wexner Center for the Arts presents Pascale Sablan’s I Was Asked to Stand for the 2021 Glimcher Lecture

On Wednesday, February 17 at 7 PM, the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University will present an online talk by award-winning architect and organizer Pascale Sablan for the 2021 DeeDee and Herb Glimcher Lecture. It will be free to stream via the center’s website.

In her talk I Was Asked to Stand, Sablan empowers audiences to dismantle injustice by exploring—and confronting—the lack of representation, documentation, and acknowledgment of diverse designers and architects and their many great works. The discussion will speak to the historical infrastructure oppressing women and BIPOC architects; to the present programs and initiatives that fight for justice; and to future collaborations that aspire to achieve a built environment eradicated of racism, sexism, and all forms of oppression.

With more than 13 years of experience, Sablan has worked on a variety of mixed-use, commercial, cultural, and residential projects in the US and globally. Sablan is this country’s 315th living African American, female registered architect. Advancing architecture for the betterment of society, she brings visibility and voice to the issues concerning women and diverse designers. 

Sablan founded Beyond the Built Environment to address the inequitable disparities in her field. She was awarded the 2021 American Institute of Architects (AIA) Whitney M. Young. Jr. Award for her advocacy efforts and ascended to the AIA College of Fellows, the youngest African American to reach that honor. She also received Pratt Alumni Achievement Award and was featured on the cover of Building Design + Construction magazine as part of its 40 Under 40 Class of 2017. Sablan has also lectured at colleges and universities nationally, and at such cultural institutions as the United Nations and Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

This lecture is made possible through the generosity of the DeeDee and Herb Glimcher Program Fund, which supports presentations by distinguished speakers in the fields of art, architecture, and design, and cosponsored by Ohio State’s Knowlton School of Architecture.

The program will be live-captioned and will be available to view here on the 17th.