Join NOMA for a day celebrating and engaging with the newly opened exhibition Dawoud Bey: Elegy. We are honored to feature this day of discussion in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts with local and visiting artists (including American photographer Dawoud Bey), curators, historians, and activists.
The afternoon’s first panel will feature artist Dawoud Bey; Valerie Cassel Oliver, the Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; and LeRonn Brooks, Associate Curator, Modern and Contemporary Collections at the Getty Research Institute, in a conversation around the exhibition and catalogue.
The second panel highlights Kathe Hambrick, Executive of the Director Amistad Research Center and Founder of The River Road African American Museum; Jo Banner and Dr Joy Banner, Co-Founders of The Descendants Project; for a discussion centering the land of Louisiana and, its history, present and future.
The day culminates in a catalogue signing.