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Promise, Witness Remembrance: Contemporary Artists Respond to the Death Of Breonna Taylor.
A conversation with Allison Glenn, Senior Curator and Director of Public Art, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, for a discussion on her celebrated 2021 art exhibition Promise, Witness, Remembrance, developed around Amy Sherald’s portrait of Breonna Taylor, at the Speed Museum in Louisville, KY. In this lecture, Glenn will reflect on the portrait of Taylor and her unique approach to curating this exhibition, and how artists can help us understand larger systemic issues of gun violence and inequity in policing. Audience members will learn how a diverse range of artists addresses memory, hope, and racial justice through their work.
Beyond The Mural: Political Art to Empower and Effect Change with Professor Mary Kordak,
Moving past the common misconception that public art is “all about murals”, Mary Kordak returns to talk about more experimental public artworks.
This talk discusses art projects led by cultural leaders like Kara Walker, Kehinde Wiley as well as the Chicano Muralist Movement, and public/community art of young Yemeni Artists. While these disparate artists/movements have racial or ethnic components they also contain strong elements of social and economic disparity. This talk will introduce audiences to contemporary public artists and how public art can be a springboard for effecting real change.
Murals and Monuments With Mary Kordak, professor of art history at University New Haven.
A free talk about the history of murals/monuments and how they have affected cultural change. This talk surveys the history of murals since antiquity and touches on the current debates over monuments, how important it is to remember our history, and how public art can help re-tell narratives that were historically racially unjust.
Equity Through Information: The Black Art Library Project Talk With Asmaa Walton
Independent curator Asmaa Walton talks about her project collecting books on Black artists, a demographic often overlooked in the canon. Walton curates a new Black art history through a living archive of global Black creativity. Her work was recently at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit and is currently on view at SPACES gallery in Cleveland. Walton’s talk explores how important ‘good’ information is in today’s climate of fake news and alternative facts. By introducing audience members to a specific community-based art project they will learn the importance of rewriting historical narratives.
Dr. David Canton speaks on Black artwork and the politics of artwork about race in America.
Hosted by the Lyman Allyn Museum, New London CT and in conjunction with Memories & Inspiration - The Kerry and C. Betty David Collection of African American Art Exhibition.
Ada Pinkston is a multimedia artist, educator, and cultural organizer. Her art eplores the intersection of imagined histories and sociopolitical realities on our bodies, using mono print, performance, video, and collage.
Pinkston’s work has been featured at a variety of spaces, including the Smithsonian Arts and Industries building, the Walters Museum of Art, the Peale Museum, Transmodern Performance Festival, P.S.1, the New Museum, Light City Baltimore, and the streets of Berlin.
In addition to her studio practice, she is a co-founder of the Labbodies Performance Art Laboratory in Baltimore, Maryland. She is currently a lecturer in art education at Towson University.
This program is produced in collaboration with Public Art for Racial Justice (PARJE) and the Ammerman Center for Art and Technology @ Connecticut College.
Cadex Herrera, a LatinX multi-disciplinary artist brings awareness to humanitarian, social, and environmental injustices. He is a portrait painter and muralist. Hererra discusses his participation in a mural honoring George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Hosted by the Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme CT.
Born in Cholula, Puebla, Mexico, Federico Cuatlacuatl is an artist based in Virginia and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art at the University of Virginia. Federico’s work is invested in disseminating topics of Latinx immigration, social art practice, and cultural sustainability. Building from his own experience growing up as an undocumented immigrant and previously holding DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), Federico’s creative practice centers on the intersectionality of indigeneity and immigration under a pressing Anthropocene, transborder indigeneity, and migrant indigenous futurisms. In 2016, Federico launched the Rasquache Artist Residency in Puebla, Mexico and continues to host artists internationally in his hometown San Francisco Coapan.
This program is produced in collaboration with Public Art for Racial Justice (PARJE) and the Ammerman Center for Art and Technology @ Connecticut College.
Amalia Amaki is an Atlanta-born artist, curator, critic and educator, whose art explores the lives and culture of African women of the Diaspora.
She discusses Memories & Inspiration - The Kerry and C. Betty David Collection of African American Art Exhibition at the Lyman Allyn Museum, New London CT.
Kit Son Lee (sometimes Son Kit) is a designer, developer, and artist based in Brooklyn, NY by way of Providence, RI and Koreatown, Los Angeles. Kit’s work investigates, exaggerates, and narrativizes the methods of network surveillance, the attention economy, machine learning, and UX/ UI design to confront them on the field of analogy.
Kit is a co-founder of Codify Art, a Brooklyn-based producorial collective dedicated to supporting work by queer and trans artists of color, and an editor at Queer Aesthetics, an interdisciplinary open-access journal pursuing equitable representation in the arts.
This program is produced in collaboration with Public Art for Racial Justice (PARJE) and the Ammerman Center for Art and Technology @ Connecticut College.