Kamau Ware & Risë Wilson:
On Art, History, and Public Space
Friday, September 24 at 6PM
In partnership with Battery Park City Authority on Belvedere Plaza in Battery Park City.
Kamau Ware and Risë Wilson will discuss public art as an avenue for discovering and revealing untold histories.
Multidimensional artist and historian Kamau Ware is founder of Black Gotham Experience, an immersive multimedia project that reimagines the spaces directly impacted by the Aftrican Diaspora as human stories. Ware has become a voice to fill the visual abyss of Black New York history with research and illuminating creativity.
Risë Wilson founded The Laundromat Project in 1999, an organization that connects artists and communities of color to envision the world in which we all want to live, and create the skill sets to make it so. Her twenty-year tenure in arts and culture has spanned philanthropic practice, strategic planning, artist development, and public engagement. In all of her work in its various forms, Wilson is preoccupied with dislodging herself and others from various traps of oppression.
Public Art Tours
Before the talk, students from Borough of Manhattan Community College will provide brief tours of Mildred Howard’s The House That Will Not Pass for Any Color Than Its Own, 2011, at Belvedere Plaza and Ned Smyth’s The Upper Room, 1986/87 at the Esplanade at Albany Street on September 24 from 5:00 to 6:00pm.
