The Center for the Humanities Presents ‘Art As Social Action: 10 Years of Social Practice Queens’ Exhibition Opening + Public Events This Week
| Images: Top: Cody Herrmann, installation view, Flushing Creek From Home, 2020; bottom left: Sandra Goldmark and Ngozi Okaro; bottom middle: from the film “Latinegras: The Journey of Self-Love through an Afro Latina Lens” website; bottom right: Margo Okazawa-Reya. |
The Center for the Humanities is excited to team up with Social Practice Queens (SPQ) and the Queens Museum on Art As Social Action: 10 Years of Social Practice Queens. Curated by Chloë Bass, the exhibition honors a decade-long pedagogical experiment by featuring interdisciplinary projects from nine local and international SPQ alumni: Alix Camacho-Vargas, Floor Grootenhuis (with Joel Murphy), Cody Herrmann, Jeff Kasper, Naomi Kuo, Julian Louis Phillips, Erin Turner, Pedro Felipe Vintimilla Burneo, and the Workers Art Coalition.
They hope you can visit Art As Social Action at the Queens Museum, and join them for:
- Wed, Mar 24th, 6:00 PM (EDT): Voices of the Unheard: The Afro Latinx Experiences panel discussion and film screening with Omilani Alarcon, Ryan Mann-Hamilton, Shaunee L. Wallace, and Sonia Rodriguez
- Thu, Mar 25th, 12:00 PM (EDT): What Time Is It? A Transnational Black Feminist Moment: “Black Feminist” film screening & discussion with Dr. Margo Okazawa-Rey
- Thu, Mar 25th, 5:30 PM (EDT): Sustainable Thinking in Practice: Fashion, Cultural Industry, Labor, Immigration a conversation with Sandra Goldmark and Ngozi Okaro, moderated by Eugenia Paulicelli and Deepsikha Chatterjee
Learn more on their website.