Curating as praxis
“For me, curatorial work is about bringing together theory and action to change the world.”
Leading gallery tour of Let Us March On: Lee Friedlander and the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, at Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conneticut, 1/2017 – 7/2017 (multi-venue nationwide tour 2017-2019).
Co-panelist, discussing racial justice struggles with local community activists, Don't Shoot Portland, Portland, Oregon, 2019.
Antwoine Washington, And Yeah, About that Seat at the Table, Imagine Otherwise, Museum of Creative Human Art, in partnership with Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 2021. Photo: Field Studio.
Amber N. Ford, Strands, Tracks & Naps, Imagine Otherwise, sited at ThirdSpace Action Lab, in partnership with Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 2021. Photo: Field Studio.
Shikeith, still waters run deep/fall in your ways, Imagine Otherwise, sited at Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 2021.
Imani Dennison, NO MAS-Irreversible Entanglements, 2020, Imagine Otherwise, sited at ThirdSpace Action Lab, in partnership with Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 2021. Photo: Field Studio.
Temporary Spaces of Joy and Freedom. Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 2020. Photo: Field Studio.
Artists Kyle Goen, Vaimoana Niumeitolu, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Tricia Hersey and curator La Tanya S. Autry. Temporary Spaces of Joy and Freedom. Cleveland, Ohio, 2020.
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Amanda Strong, Biidaaban (The Dawn Comes), 2019. Temporary Spaces of Joy and Freedom. Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 2020.
Tricia Hersey, A Portal for Rest. Temporary Spaces of Joy and Freedom. Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 2020.
Artist Case Barge performing on Red Carpet. Temporary Spaces of Joy and Freedom. Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 2020.
Artist Vaimoana Niumeitolu. Red Carpet, 2016, by Vaimoana Niumeitolu and Kyle Goen, Temporary Spaces of Joy and Freedom, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 2020.
Artist Tricia Hersey (aka The Nap Bishop) and La Tanya S. Autry. Temporary Spaces of Joy and Freedom. Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 2020.
Guiding Artspace student apprentices on the history of the Amistad and other sites of Black liberation struggles , Let Us March On Walking Tour of New Haven, Connecticut sites of Black protest, 2017; at left Amistad Memorial, by sculptor Ed Hamilton, 1992 , New Haven City Hall, New Haven, Conneticut.
High-school students participate in Art of Black Dissent pop-up exhibition, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 2017.
Review of teach-in, Art of Collective Care & Responsibility: Handling Images of Black Suffering & Death, Hyperallergic, December 2020.
Teach-in, Art of Collective Care & Responsibility: Handling Images of Black Suffering & Death, December 2020.
Leading gallery tour of Let Us March On: Lee Friedlander and the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, at Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, 1/2017 – 7/2017 (multi-venue nationwide tour 2017-2019).
Museums Are Not Neutral with Don't Shoot Portland – (from left to right) Mike Murawski, La Tanya S. Autry, Teressa Raiford, and friends, Portland, Oregon, 2019.
Wall text passage, excerpt from Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's 2018 interview with Dionne Brand. "Historically Indigenous and Black artists have been visionaries in our struggles and movements. They have also affirmed our presence—created temporary spaces of joy and freedom, and enabled me to go on. In the academy I think about things, and lecture about things, but in performance I can set up space together with an audience to share something different. I really liked creating these islands of freedom, little glimpses of freedom where we stand together and we get to feel, just for a second maybe, what freedom might be like, and to get that feeling into our bones. These spaces open up different possibilities. These spaces are not just spaces of refusal, they are also generative. They are also spaces of joy and possibility. I love how Ashon Crawley writes about the importance of joy." Temporary Spaces of Joy and Freedom. Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 2020.