Art & Boba Talk with Carolyn Lazard & Jerron Herman | STANFORD AFFILIATES ONLY

Join us for a compelling conversation over boba with artist Carolyn Lazard and artist and dancer Jerron Herman. This program is offered in conjunction with Carolyn Lazard: Long Take, on view at the Cantor Arts Center from August 6–December 13, 2026.  

Carolyn Lazard is an artist whose primary medium is iteration. They work across video, sculpture, installation, and performance. Their practice attends to what incapacity makes. In his artistic practice, Jerron Herman is compelled to create images of freedom, his own freedom stemming from the joyful interplay with forms.

Carolyn Lazard: Long Take is a multimedia exhibition that begins with a score for a performance and unfolds as a series of interventions that engage accessibility as an artistic material. Made in collaboration with Herman and poet and artist Joselia Rebekah Hughes, the central work, Leans, Reverses (2022), emerges from the relationship between a dance performance, its recording, and transcription (a choreographic score, captions, and audio description).

All Stanford students are welcome to join this free program. Lazard will begin with a short talk about their practice, followed by an informal chat with Herman. Art & Boba Talks are designed to be a welcoming space for students to engage with practicing arts professionals. Through these gatherings, students learn about working in the arts and developing an art practice. We also welcome any folks who simply love art and want to join for a conversation over boba, no arts background required. 

This event is open to Stanford students, faculty, and staff only. Boba is limited to the first 20 RSVPs.

Please also consider joining the Cantor the evening prior, October 8, from 6pm to 7pm, for Forms & Frequencies: Temporary Body by Jerron Herman, a free immersive, participatory dance piece performed and choreographed by Herman. Register here for Forms & Frequencies: Temporary Body by Jerron Herman.

All public programs at the Cantor Arts Center are always free! Space for this program is limited; advance registration is recommended. Those who have registered will have priority for seating.

Parking

Free visitor parking is available along Lomita Drive as well as on the first floor of the Roth Way Garage Structure, located at the corner of Campus Drive West and Roth Way at 345 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94305. From the Palo Alto Caltrain station, the Cantor Arts Center is about a 20-minute walk or there the free Marguerite shuttle will bring you to campus via the Y or X lines.

Disability parking is located along Lomita Drive near the main entrance of the Cantor Arts Center. Additional disability parking is located on Museum Way and in Parking Structure 1 (Roth Way & Campus Drive). Please click here to view the disability parking and access points.

Accessibility Information or Requests

Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University is committed to ensuring our programs are accessible to everyone. To request access information and/or accommodations for this event, please complete this form at least one week prior to the event: museum.stanford.edu/access.

For questions, please contact disability.access@stanford.edu or Molly Bondy, mrbondy@stanford.edu or 650-723-2945. 

Photo Description

Left: Carolyn Working, 2020. Courtesy of the artist and Trautwein Herleth. A close-up view of a line drawing in black pen on brown-toned paper in a light wooden frame. The drawing is of a person with tightly coiled curly hair resting in bed while looking at an Apple brand laptop. The figure lays on a pillow with their head propped up by their hand. Their face is mostly obscured by the laptop revealing only one eye. Their body is covered in a blanket. The folds of the blanket take up half of the surface of the drawing.

​Right: Jerron Herman, still from Temporary Bodies, Copper Hewitt, photographed by Liz Ligon. A color photograph of a man seen from head to bottom of the torso. The man is Black and has a mid-length beard. He is smiling. He is wearing a crown-like head piece made from brown paper and a white cape. His right hand is resting on his left shoulder. On the wrist of his right hand is a fabric bracelet with the letter A written on it. At the bottom right, a pair of light-skinned hands pinch the fabric. The man is placed in front of a window looking out onto green grass.  ​