The State of Black Art in and out of The Institution
February 19th 2021 7-8:30pm
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2020 was a year for the books. Between the global pandemic all but totally halting the way we interact with one another, to the historically long protests in support of the Black Lives Matter Movement, to the culmination of 4 years of fascist rhetoric turning to an deadly insurrection broadcasted on national television. The year is ripe with artistic material to be gleaned for inspirational fodder in the wake of such a catastrophic upturning of the status quo. Before that work is to be made though, discussions about healing and direction must take place.

Join as Curator and Facilitator Trasonia Abbott opens space up for artists, Jonell Joshua and Felicia Holman, creators in the fields of visual art and performance art respectively, both of whom have created and worked in various sectors of the art world, to unpack their experiences within Institutions and outside of them and parse through what are tools of survival for the oppressed and what are merely tools of the oppressor.

As Audre Lord wrote , “… survival is not an academic skill. It is learning how to stand alone, unpopular and sometimes reviled…It is learning how to take our differences and make them strengths. For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. And this fact is only threatening to those women who still define the master’s house as their only source of support.”