Cross Currents: The African Diaspora in the Global Continuum
The Gallery @ the Betsy Hotel hosted by Dr. Leslie King Hammond, Author, Art Historian & Senior Visual Arts Advisor, The Betsy Hotel
Featuring Dr. Deborah Willis (Chair, Department of Photography & Imaging @ NYU), Marilyn Holifield, J.D. (Senior Partner, Holland and Knight & Board member, PAMM), Rosie Gordon Wallace (Founder/Director, DIASPORA VIBE, Consultant, The Art of Black – GMCVB), Geoffrey Philp (Poet, Novelist and Playwright.)
Hosted in the Gallery at The Betsy - South Beach
Together we will reflect on the topic through the work of artists whose work deals with diasporic and exilic experience, such as those exhibited in The Betsy's Basel Show: Aida Muluneh, Sonle Sory, Arien Chang, Mario Algaze, Maria Magdalena Compos-Pons, Rose Marie Cromwell, and Kyle Meyer. To frame the discussion, we ask our speakers and audience to consider the following: The history of Africans in the Diaspora has been an exercise of incredible triumph juxtaposed against a backdrop of colossal human tragedy. Yet, in the words of Patterson and Kelley (2012), ‘Diaspora is both a process and a condition. As a process it is constantly being remade through movement, migration, and travel, as well as imagined through thought, cultural production, and political struggle. Yet, as a condition, it is directly tied to the process by which it is being made and remade …’
Event is free and open to the public, but your RSVP is requested.
Image courtesy David Krut Projects and the artist, Aida Muluneh
