Sightline: JJJJJerome Ellis

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Sightline: JJJJJerome Ellis

A special event in conjunction with the BGC exhibition SIGHTLINES on Peace, Power, and Prestige: Metal Arts in Africa

November 8 at 6:00 pm

38 West 86th Street, Lecture Hall

public.humanities@bgc.bard.edu

$15 General | $12 Seniors | Free for people associated with a college or university, people with museum ID, people with disabilities and caregivers, and BGC members

 

In the spirit of the exhibition title—SIGHTLINES on Peace, Power, and Prestige: Metal Arts in Africa—Bard Graduate Center (BGC) has invited writer and critic Jessica Lynne, novelist Maaza Mengiste, composer JJJJJerome Ellis, and choreographer Okwui Okpokwasili to create their own sightlines—ways of seeing the exhibited artworks through time, form, and space. Join us on October 11, November 1, November 8, and December 13 to experience these “sightlines” live.

 

Support for SIGHTLINES on Peace, Power, and Prestige: Metal Arts in Africa is generously provided by the Scully Peretsman Foundation and other generous donors to Bard Graduate Center.

 

Visitors can also experience the sightlines, along with others created by exhibition curator Drew Thompson, lead gallery educator mary adeogun, and BGC / Brooklyn Museum fellow Anissa Malvoisin, at listening stations in the gallery and via BGC’s  podcast.

 

JJJJJerome Ellis is an animal, artist, and proud stutterer. Through music, literature, performance, video, and photography he researches relationships among blackness, disabled speech, divinity, nature, sound, and time. Born in 1989 to Jamaican and Grenadian immigrants, he lives in Norfolk, Virginia with his wife, ecologist-poet Luísa Black Ellis.

 

 

Date & Time

Wed, Nov 8, 2023 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Venue Details

Bard Graduate Center

38 West 86th Street
New York, New York 10024

Bard Graduate Center