August 2024
FORGOTTEN LANDS x MET Library
It was a pleasure to be hosted by the MET’s Thomas J. Watson Library on Friday, July 26 with over 100 attendees from our community. Ania Freer 🇦🇺 🇯🇲, Yamil Arbaje 🇩🇴, & Deja Belardo 🇻🇮 🇵🇷 delivered captivating presentations on their work, practices, and the impact of the texts they each selected from the MET Library for discussion.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Final Days: I AM CaribBEING X FORGOTTEN LANDS at Governor's Island
Weekends through Sunday, Aug 18
We’re closing out our month-long exhibition with the I AM CaribBEING mobile container at Governor’s Island. How I remembered it… features photographs from Volume 04 artist Theodore Samuels 🇯🇲 and Volume 06 artist Frédéric Georges 🇭🇹. The I AM CaribBEING House is located on the lawn outside Colonels Row, Building 409, 📍Governor’s Island.
*Proceeds will go to Hurricane Beryl Relief.
Volume 06: Neo-Carib Visions Book Launch at Brooklyn Museum Shop
Saturday, September 7th
The highly anticipated release of Volume 06: Neo-Carib Visions is happening! Join us for a book release party and pop-up exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum Shop on Saturday, September 7th. Meet some of the artists and contributors to this volume and be among the first to get a copy!
FROM OUR COMMUNITY
Tropical Frequencies at LMCC on Governor’s Island
On view until September 29th
Tropical Frequencies curated by Kiara Cristina Ventura for the Lower Manhattan Cultural Center (LMCC) Curatorial Fellow Exhibition features paintings, sculptures, and installations by Caribbean artists, Cheyenne Julien, Emily Manwaring🇹🇹 🇭🇹, Bony Ramirez 🇩🇴 (V06 artist), Mosie Romney 🇯🇲, Quiara Torres 🇩🇴, and Tiempo De Zafra 🇩🇴 who channel and engage with alternate realms in their practices. These realms are heavily influenced by Caribbean culture, the tropics, passed-down stories, and the artists’ African and Indigenous roots.
AnkhLave Arts Alliance House on Governor’s Island
Ankhlave Arts Alliance is a NYC-based nonprofit, 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to advancing BIPOC artists in the contemporary art realm. They provide platforms for artistic expression and exchange through their annual programming, including the AnkhLave Garden Project Fellowship, Curator in Residence, and Public Artist in Residence. The AnkhLave Artist Residency features several artists with ties to the Caribbean and is located on Colonels Row just steps from the I AM CaribBeing mobile container.
A Billion, Brilliant Points of Unity at Fridman Gallery
On view until August 9
As information travels faster and faster, polyculturalism hints at what the future holds—we are not moving towards a single, homogenous culture, but towards a billion, brilliant points of unity.
The group exhibition A Billion, Brilliant Points of Unity, curated by Maty Sall, features works by Hilary Balu, Kokou Ferdinand Makouvia, Laurena Finéus 🇭🇹 🇨🇦, Ambrose Rhapsody Murray, Terrence Musekiwa, Adjani Okpu-Egbe, Rakajoo, Sahana Ramakrishnan, Yelaine Rodriguez 🇩🇴 (V05 artist), David Smalling 🇯🇲, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Malaika Temba, Maya Ines Touam, and Saya Woolfalk.
ARTIST OPPORTUNITIES
-August - September 2024
Design Trust for Public Space – 2024–2025 Photo Urbanism Fellow | Deadline August 11 Apply >>
University of Saskatchewan – Creative Research Fellowship (Saskatchewan, Canada) | Deadline August 19 Apply >>
Corning Museum of Glass – Black, Indigenous, & People of Color Residency (New York, United States) | Deadline August 31 Apply >>
Bryn Du – 2025 Artist in Residence Program (Ohio, United States) | Deadline August 31 Apply >>
Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University – Princeton Arts Fellowships (New Jersey, United States) | Deadline September 10 Apply >>
Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program (Massachusetts, United States)| Deadline September 12 Apply >>
2025 Erie Canal Artists in Residence (New York, United States) | Deadline September 8 Apply >>
Center for Book Arts – 2025 Artist-in-Residence Program (New York, United States) | Deadline September 15 Apply >>
Dedalus Foundation – Senior Fellowship in Art History (United States) | Deadline September 16 Apply >>
The Image Centre – Photography Research Fellowships (Varies) | Deadline September 30 Apply >>
The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans (United States) | Deadline October 31 Apply >>
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