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.
Sculptor and designer Ebitenyefa Baralaye reveals to art historian Jacqueline Francis details about his relationship to clay as a material taking the form of obstruction.
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Cheryl Derricotte sits down with Angela Hennessy to discuss her exhibition at MoAD and how her creative process lives under the “tyranny of title,” as a phrase will get stuck in her head, compelling her to research and create the ensuing art.
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Artist Andrew Wilson sits down with Curator and Educator Angel Rafael Concepcion Vazquez to discuss his affinity for fashion and honoring the ephemeral objects that acknowledge the histories of of Black bodies in America.
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In this episode, Tamara Suarez Porras sits down for an interview with Museum of the African Diaspora's curatorial team, Emily Kuhlmann and Soleil Summer.
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In this final episode, Jamal Batts and Malika Ra Imhotep, sit down with LA-born filmmaker summer fucking mason, to discuss their immersive installation and short essay film Gemini.
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For our sixth episode of Notes from MoAD, multidisciplinary artist Indira Allegra and curator Rhiannon Evans MacFadyen discuss an expanding of world and experience, the interplay of consent and complicity, exhaustion of identity-based inquiry, and the temperature of colonialism.
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Rodney Ewing and Rhiannon Evans MacFadyen talk about institutions and the things we learn about our work when we listen openly.
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Rhiannon Evans MacFayden sits down with Rodney Ewing and Indira Allegra to discuss collaboration, scarcity and abundance, community, and collective modes of creating and presenting work.
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DeShawn Dumas and Rhiannon Evans MacFadyen discuss the fragility and resilience of glass and the limits of the art institution as community space.
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Photographer and visual artist Chanell Stone and curator/organizer PJ Gubatina Policarpio revisit Natura Negra (Black Nature), Stone’s exhibition at Museum of African Diaspora.
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Artist Vincent Miranda and curator/organizer PJ Gubatina Policarpio talk about the ideas and influences for Miranda’s upcoming exhibition at MoAD.
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Artist Sydney Cain and curator PJ Gubatina Policarpio meditate on the vision and process that inspire Cain’s upcoming show Refutations at MoAD.
More »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?
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.
This column is funded by the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, a private family foundation dedicated to enhancing quality of life by championing and sustaining the arts, promoting early childhood literacy, and supporting research to cure chronic disease.
Essays, conversations, and programs contending with an evolving field and methodology for art making and engagement.
