Hello everyone,

On behalf of the entire team, I would like to warmly invite you to join us this evening live from NYC via Zoom (7pm ET / 4pm PT) for our weekly free and interactive tour.

This week’s is: #105 Considering Art: Considering Image - featuring urgent work by Janiva Ellis.

Janiva Ellis’s (she/her) paintings produce abundant imagery, invented as well as appropriated. She draws from a broad array of material, including art history and pop culture, to comment on the insidious nature of white supremacist mythology and its denial of itself as a brutal social and structural force.

Her work interrogates pervasive images, examining their contexts and sentimental resonances. She uses the wide-ranging strategies of landscape, abstraction, and cartoon for a sardonic reframing of the images’ visual and emotional narratives. The humor in her work aims to create space for release as well as renewal. Ellis uses figuration to paint Blackness expansively, communicating the complexity of navigating such a lopsided and violent landscape.

In this tour, we embark on some close looking.

Together we ask: What do you see?

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All the very best,

Matthew

You make this.

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OCT 12 | #106 Considering Art : Considering Table Manners | Zina Saro-Wiwa

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About your facilitator: 

mark (they/them) develops communities with a view toward activating art as a tool for positive political, economic and social change. To date, their work has informed cultural strategy at Arts Council UK, the British Broadcasting Corporation (History, Learning and Radio), the Beaney Museum, Canterbury City Council, GOV.UK, Kent County Council, the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Tate Galleries (Modern and Britain), Artists Space, Bureau of General Services Queer Division, The LGBT Community Center NYC, MAPP International, The New School, The New York Public Library, Village Alliance Inc, Volta Art Fair, International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo 2020/21 Olympic and Paralympic Games. mark is a proud member of the LGBTQIA2S+ community and an advocate for the transformative power of art and culture for all.

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Together - Let's take another look.

Learning & Teaching Resources

Incomplete BLM Reading List | Curated Bookshelf

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