Between You and Me is a series of dialogic exchanges between artists and their collaborators and peers to materialize the countless conversations, musings, and debates that are often invisible, yet play a significant role in the generative space of art-making.
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"You’ve taught me that as I grow as an artist, I can think beyond the parameters I might even set for myself. You believe in dreams. I believe in wonder."
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"I believe we planted that seed years ago, and I feel fortunate that it’s come to sprout this spring."
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"I keep thinking of Prue Leith from the Great British Baking Show (one of the few things these days that calms my rising anxiety) when she says knowingly to the contestants, 'It has got to be worth the calories.' I’m sure there’s a metaphor for art school in there somewhere."
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"There are structural affinities between preservation of American race and American art."
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"I think I need to walk into the simulacrum of a so-called Middle Eastern town at a US military training center and see how at home I really feel."
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"How do we repair the rifts within the self, between culture and civics, between human and nature?"
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"Place is irreparably altered by markings in time; through action, place becomes something new entirely."
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"For law to positively affirm ownership to an individual or group, it must simultaneously negate and vacate the claims of others as we’ve discussed throughout our letters."
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Between You & Me is a series of dialogic exchanges between artists and their collaborators and peers to materialize the countless conversations, musings, and debates that are often invisible yet play a significant role in the generative space of artmaking.
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Between You & Me is a series of dialogic exchanges between artists and their collaborators and peers to materialize the countless conversations, musings, and debates that are often invisible yet play a significant role in the generative space of artmaking.
More »Notes from MoAD is dedicated to the Museum of the African Diaspora’s Emerging Artist Program, giving the exhibiting artists an opportunity to discuss their featured exhibition at MoAD and how their art practice is in dialogue with contemporary art as it considers themes of the African diaspora.
Art Practical presents Process Practice Progress, a programming series focused on artists, administrators, writers, and cultural leaders determined to decolonize institutional spaces ranging from museums and neighborhoods to published pages. Each event strives for generative dialogue based in actionable solutions and sustainable practices. How do we reshape institutional spaces to accurately reflect the missions of diversity and inclusion they offer? How do we make diversity and inclusion efforts comprehensive and truly equitable?
Essays, conversations, and programs contending with an evolving field and methodology for art making and engagement.
