Meet the Black Art IncubatorĀ -- a collaborative in residence at Recess (41 Grand Street, NYC) through August 19. Visit Recessās website for full details: http://www.recessart.org/blackartincubator/Ā
All photo courtesy: @kingtexasā
About Black Art Incubator
From July 14 -- August 19, Taylor Renee Aldridge, Jessica Bell Brown, Kimberly Drew, and Jessica Lynne will host the Black Art Incubatorāa project that will use Recessās storefront space as a hub for public programming and the dissemination of resources for artists and arts professionals.
The Black Art Incubator is a social sculpture designed to create an intervention in the āart worldā through a series of public events that bring together artists, curators, community members, critics, and scholars. Using collaboration and public engagement as guiding methodologies, the Black Art Incubator will seek to provoke new understandings of the myriad sectors that comprise the contemporary art world. The Black Art Incubator, although open and accessible to people from all backgrounds, is rooted in the nexus of the African Diaspora. The Black Art Incubator specifically aims to prioritize Black subjectivity through the use of social sculpture. The space serves as an evolving think tank, that is available for use by people of the community.
Modeling itself after an incubator, the project will offer a range of artist-led conversations, critical dialogues, panels, and teach-ins devoted to fostering discourse about community, history, and collaborative cultural production. Visitors will be invited to participate in and contribute to weekly programs including workshops on archives, conversations about art & money, office hours with leaders in the field, and open critique sessions for selected artists; more details are available in the āEventsā column to the left. Notes, images, and other traces of these programs will accrue in the space, transforming Recess into a spatialized working document.
By developing a vibrant and accessible site and an accompanying set of programs, the Black Art Incubator will give specific form to an art world communityāone that is united by a collective, process-based practice of self-care, knowledge-sharing, and discursive exchange.
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