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?
"Decolonial Strategies" joins Anuradha Vikram, Michelle Dizon, and Việt Lê as they discuss the framework that art operates within, and potential strategies that artists, curators, and cultural workers alike can take to decolonize that framework.
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Black Prominence: The Vision & Re-vision of Art and Leadership joins Jamillah James of ICA LA, Maria Jenson of SOMArts, and Linda Harrison of Museum of the African Diaspora, moderated by independent curator Essence Harden.
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Keeping Our Space: Organizing Cultural Districts in the Bay Area, was recorded live at the Bayanihan Community Center in the heart of SOMA Pilipinas in early April as the final event in Art Practical’s Process + Practice + Progress series.
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Jay and Elena chat it up with Bay Area-bae Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle about her solo exhibition The Retrieval at SFAC Galleries and ask how she fights against her own erasure and finds solace in humor.
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Irina Contreras examines performances from PST: LA/LA that share "an interest in the physicality of the pause, recline, or moment of respite" to reveal how "contemporary Latinx artists are considering and acting alongside the current political moment."
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By Forrest McGarvey
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.
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.
