Haitian-born and New York-raised Fabiola Jean-Louis uses photography, film, ceramics, and paper to create work that examines the absence of Black and Brown people in historical imagery and seeks to restore them. Her work has been exhibited widely at the Andrew Freedman Home (Bronx, NY), Lux Art Institute (San Diego, CA), DuSable Museum of African American History (Chicago, IL) and, most recently, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, MA).
Public Panel Discussion
Nov. 18, 2021 | 7:30 p.m. | McCastlain Ballroom
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Panelists:
Fabiola Jean-Louis uses photography, film, ceramics, and paper to create work that examines the absence of Black and Brown people in historical imagery and seeks to restore them. Her work has been exhibited widely at the Andrew Freedman Home (Bronx, NY), Lux Art Institute (San Diego, CA), DuSable Museum of African American History (Chicago, IL) and, most recently, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, MA) and Metropolitan Museum (NY).
Bryan Winfred Massey, Sr. received his BFA at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC; his MFA at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA and is continuing to work towards completing his EdD at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock. Primarily a stone carver, Massey works with a variation of stones from alabaster, soapstone, limestone, marble, and granite. He also casts in iron, bronze, aluminum, as well as fabricating steel for incorporating with many of his stone works.
Crystal C. Mercer. Black, Queer, Create(her), businesswoman and conduit for culture and community. Crystal C. Mercer is a celebrated fiber artist, activist, published author, playwright, and poet. She utilizes theatre, poetry, and textiles to communicate ancestral messages and tell social justice narratives. In every thread of her being, she is weaving a tapestry of her ancestors, draped in Afro-futurism.
Dr. K. Adele Okoli holds her doctorate in African American Studies and French from Yale University, where her dissertation was awarded the Sylvia Ardyn Boone Prize in African American Studies and the History of Art. Her work in Francophone and Creolophone Studies centers on discourses of race, gender, and desire, particularly in Haitian, Louisianan, and nineteenth-century French literature, art, and culture. Dr. Okoli’s work has appeared in scholarly journals such as Nineteenth-Century French Studies and Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory, as well as non-academic venues including The Haitian Times, The Luxembourg Review, and The Paris Review. She also teaches and writes on fashion history and theory.