Featured Artwork: Salt Water Bodies, 2021-2022, Gouled Ahmed
Black Shedding(s) is a group exhibition where each artist's work comes together to tell a collective story. Through visual art, sound production, literary reflections, and educational resources, the viewer is invited into their own contemplation and conversation about diverse quests for liberatory transformation.
Black Shedding(s) highlights BCA's unwavering commitment to the intersection of arts and social justice and to amplifying the voices of artists from under-resourced communities—artists of color, women, and LGBTQIA+ individuals.
CURATOR
Cheyenne Wyzzard-Jones
ARTISTS
Gouled Ahmed | Nikesha Breeze | tasha dougé | Mikailah | Ehime Ora | Jaleeca Yancy
EVENTS
Opening Reception: Wednesday, June 5, 2024, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Public Program: Wednesday, June 26, 2024, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
A Hair Journey Through Black Remembrance took place on Wednesday, June 26th, from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM at the Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos. In this interactive performance and conversation, the audience discussed the history of Black hair in the United States, the fibers of hair within the field of artmaking, and reflect on creative imaginations for where the collective Black hair journey is taking us toward liberatory transformation.
Closing Reception: Wednesday, July 10, 2024, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
EXHIBITION SNAPSHOT
