Thursday, January 30th will be our second exchange of Season 10! We hope to see you there. Please join us in conversation with Trina Michelle Robinson, Patrick Crowley and Jillian Crochet.

Trina Michelle Robinson is a San Francisco-based interdisciplinary artist whose work focuses on the relationship between memory and migration. She studies the fragments of memory and repurposes them. Her work has been shown at the BlackStar Film Festival in Philadelphia, ICA San José, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco Art Commission Main Gallery, New York’s Wassaic Project and the triennial Bay Area Now 9 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Her solo exhibition at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), a Smithsonian Affiliate, was part of their Emerging Artist Program 2022-23. She is a 2024 SFMOMA SECA Award finalist and was recently nominated for the 2024 Anonymous Was A Woman (AWAW) Award. She previously worked in print and digital media in production at The New York Times T Magazine, Vanity Fair, and Slack before receiving her M.F.A. from California College of the Arts in 2022 where she is now an adjunct professor. As a storyteller, she traveled the country and told the story of exploring her ancestry with The Moth Mainstage including at Lincoln Center in New York and her story aired on NPR’s The Moth Radio Hour in October 2019 and as well as a new story in March 2024.

Patrick R. Crowley is the Associate Curator of European Art at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University. A specialist in Roman art and archaeology as well as later European and contemporary art, his writing has appeared in numerous exhibition catalogues, scholarly volumes, and academic journals, as well as magazines such as the Los Angeles Review of Books and Document Journal. Crowley is the author of The Phantom Image: Seeing the Dead in Ancient Rome (University of Chicago Press, 2019). Prior to Stanford, he was Assistant Professor of Art History and the College at the University of Chicago. Crowley’s scholarship has received generous support from the J. Paul Getty Trust, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts in Washington, D.C.

Jillian Crochet is a Bay Area disabled artist working in sculpture, video, and performance. Her work questions: What is natural/unnatural? What bodies are included/excluded -- important? She was a 2020-21 Artist in Residence at Art Beyond Sight’s Art & Disability program and Graduate Fellow at Headlands Center for the Arts. In 2021 she was awarded an Emerging Artist Fellowship from the California Arts Council. She has exhibited work nationally and internationally, at YBCA in SF, Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt, Germany, SOMArts, and the Alabama Contemporary Art Center. This winter she will be published in RACAR in Canada and The Journal of Arts and Communities in the UK. She earned her BFA from the University of Alabama in 2007 and an MFA in Fine Arts at California College of the Arts in 2020.

Where: Seven Mirrors 481 9th St Oakland, CA
When: Thursday June 30th doors at 7 talks begin at 7:30pm

***In the spirit of community safety and accessibility, we are requiring attendees to wear a mask indoors.

Looking forward to being in exchange with you,

Brian and Kelley