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Spring 2021
Choosing the Present: Indigenous Women Artists on Contemporary Realities
Thursday, February 11, 2021 4:00pm-5:30 pm
Featuring Jaune Quick-to-See Smith and Natalie Ball; hosted by Savannah Imani Wade, Spring ‘21, GFA and Sheri Parks, Vice President for Strategic Initiatives
MICA’s Mixed Media Speaker Series is thrilled to host international artist, curator and printmaker Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith, alongside interdisciplinary artist Natalie Ball, for a conversation examining the political, social and economic reality of our country from the perspective of two Indigenous American artists. The event is co-hosted by Sheri Parks, Ph.D., Vice President for Strategic Initiatives, and Savannah Imani Wade ’21 (General Fine Arts BFA).
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The Body As Black Archive
Thursday, March 18 4PM - 5:30 EDT
The Body As Black Archive features curator, arts administrator and choreographer Rashida Bumbray and interdisciplinary artist Jefferson Pinder in conversation moderated by multihyphenate curator Niama Safia Sandy. Bumbray’s and Pinder’s respective transdisciplinary work often draws on a historical-cum-ancestral Black vernacular deployed as a framework for adjudicating the past, and present while transforming futures to come. The conversation will trace the two artists’ creative practices through the poetics of bodily representation in their performative work and beyond.
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Design Justice: Designers Building at the Intersection of Design + Social Justice
Thursday, April 1 6PM - 7:30 EDT
Join Denise Shanté Brown for a virtual conversation with N'Deye Diakhate (Black Womxn Flourish), Wes Taylor (Design Justice Network) and Andrea Ngan (Creative Resilience Collective) about current design justice movements.
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Fall 2020
Rights and Wrongs: Liberty, Democracy, and the Struggle for Human Rights
“Rights and Wrongs” is a 3-part series that explores a range of perspectives, including the history of race in America and the Black Lives Matter movement, women’s suffrage and the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, immigrant rights, public health vs. individual liberty, voter rights and voter access, freedom of speech and the arts, or other topics and approaches that connect to this theme.
“In this time of chaos and challenge to our democratic society, we are required as artists and art educators to examine the role of art as a practice of justice and liberation. Our public strategies of community engagement and cultural transformation are part of the societal healing needed in this era of rupture and conflict."
– Amalia Mesa-Bains
Part I, Tuesday, October 20, 2020 4:00 pm-5:30 pm
Featuring Xaviera Simmons and Dr. Martha S. Jones
Co-hosted by Sheri Parks, Ph.D., Vice President for Strategic Initiatives, and Chloe Green, General Fine Arts (Major) | MICA, '21.
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Part II, Thursday, October 29, 2020 4:00 pm-5:30 pm
Featuring Stacey Kirby and Karyn Olivier
Co-hosted by Sheri Parks, Ph.D., Vice President for Strategic Initiatives, and Ladan Savar, Interdisciplinary Sculpture| MICA, '22.
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Part III, Tuesday, November 10, 2020 12:00 pm-1:30 pm
Featuring Amalia Mesa-Bains
Hosted by Kenneth Krafchek, Director, MFA Community Arts.
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Design as a Pathway to Justice
Social Design Module Designed + Facilitated By Denise Shanté Brown, November 9 and November 12, 12:30 pm (EST)
In this two-part guided module, Denise will offer an introduction to design justice exploring the questions: How can design be a tool for dreaming and building more just, liberating futures? How can we both practice and embody the justice we want to see?
Through this shared experience, we will critically meditate on the existing movements practicing design as a pathway to create the worlds we need, collaboratively define what design justice could look like during these precarious times, and identify ways we can integrate the values reflected in design justice into our lives, work, and presence.
Lifting up dialogue, embodied practices, and imagination, these sessions are created to facilitate integration between design and community building and to nurture new connections among people committed to design supporting communities facing injustice.
Spring 2020
Susan Stewart
Public Lecture
Thursday, Feb. 6 at 4:30 p.m.
Falvey Hall in the Brown Center, 1301 W. Mount Royal Ave.
Being an Immigrant Artist in the Age of Trump
Amir F Fallah, Aliza Nisenbaum, Aram Han Sifuentes, Guadalupe Maravilla
Dr. Sheri Parks Moderator
Public Lecture
Tuesday, Feb. 25 at 6:30 p.m.
Falvey Hall in the Brown Center, 1301 W. Mount Royal Ave.
Palesa & Siphiwe Ngwenya
Public Lecture
Thursday, Feb. 27 at 4 p.m.
Fred Lazarus IV Center, 131 W. North Ave.
Uncomfortable Dialogues
Espinosa de los Monteros
Public lecture
Tuesday, March 10 at 6 p.m.
Fred Lazarus IV Center, 131 W. North Ave.
Julia Galloway, Sam Harvey, Jane Shellenbarger, John Cohorst and the Artstream nomadic gallery
Public Panel Discussion
Tuesday, March 31 at 7 p.m.
Falvey Hall in the Brown Center, 1301 W. Mount Royal Ave.
Fall 2019
Joan Jonas
Public Lecture
Tuesday, Nov. 5 at 4 p.m.
Falvey Hall in the Brown Center, 1301 W. Mount Royal Ave.
Spring 2019
Diana Al-Hadid
Public Lecture
Wednesday, Feb. 5 at 6 p.m.
Parkway Theatre, 5 W. North Ave.
Miguel Luciano
Public Lecture
Monday, Feb. 11 at 4 p.m.
Fred Lazarus IV Center, 131 W. North Ave.
Martha Rosler
Public Lecture
Tuesday, March 5 at 4 p.m.
Falvey Hall in the Brown Center, 1301 W. Mount Royal Ave.
Making Good: Big Questions in Art and Design with Coco Fusco and Kirsten Leenaars
Public Panel Discussion
Thursday, March 7 at 7 p.m.
Falvey Hall in the Brown Center, 1301 W. Mount Royal Ave.
Monday-Freedoms: Featuring Devin Allen, Hank Willis Thomas and Bilphena Yahwon
Public Panel Discussion
Wednesday, March 13 at 7 p.m.
Fred Lazarus IV Center, 131 W. North Ave.
The Yes Men Program Series
Public Lecture with Andy Bichlbaum
Wednesday, March 27 at 7 p.m.
Fred Lazarus IV Center, 131 W. North Ave.
The Yes Men film screening on Monday, March 25 at 1:30 p.m.
The Yes Men are Revolting film screening on Tuesday, March 26 at 7 p.m.
Parkway Theatre, 5 W. North Ave.
Elizabeth King
Public Lecture on Monday, April 8 at 12 p.m.
Falvey Hall in the Brown Center, 1301 W. Mount Royal Ave.
Double Take: The Art Of Elizabeth King
Film screening on Sunday, April 7 at 7 p.m.
Directed by Olympia Stone
Falvey Hall in the Brown Center, 1301 W. Mount Royal Ave.