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DESCRIPTION:Art, Liberation, and Institution Building: Lisa Dent in conversation with 
 Elissa Blount Moorhead and Maori Karmael Holmes\n\nJoin us on November 1 
 for a conversation between Lisa Dent, Elissa Blount Moorhead, and Maori 
 Karmael Holmes about the problems and potentials of art institutions in the 
 United States. The conversation will be mediated by Dr. Gina Dent.\n\nArt 
 institutions have struggled with issues of inclusion and have often failed 
 to serve communities of color. Despite overt structural obstacles, Black 
 cultural professionals and producers are at the forefront of 
 institution-building through a liberation lens. In this conversation, 
 guests will discuss their experiences leading and building art 
 institutions. They will also address the challenges and possibilities this 
 field can offer to those thinking through liberation.\n\nLisa Dent is an 
 advocate for living artists and cultural workers. Her background includes 
 work in film, theater and the visual arts as a curator, gallerist, writer, 
 production designer, and creative producer. She is the Director of Public 
 Programs at Mass MoCA, and previously was the Executive Director of 
 Artspace New Haven. Dent was the director of resources & award programs at 
 Creative Capital, leading the financial and advisory services programs and 
 advising artists towards the full realization of their projects. Prior to 
 Creative Capital, Lisa was associate curator of contemporary art at the 
 Columbus Museum of Art, where she organized exhibitions including Stephanie 
 Syjuco: Pattern Migration, Currents: Latifa Echakhch, and Supply & Demand.  
 Dent was a Helena Rubenstein Fellow at the MoMA and held curatorial staff 
 positions at the New Museum of Contemporary Art and the Whitney Museum of 
 American Art. From 2004-08, Lisa owned Lisa Dent Gallery in San Francisco 
 where she presented the work of emerging and mid-career international 
 artists. Dent received her BFA from Howard University, her MFA from NYU, 
 and completed the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in curatorial 
 studies.\n\nElissa Blount Moorhead is an artist and director investigating 
 the poetics of quotidian Black life. She is the founder of Seven Stories 
 Inc., a production company which creates films, television programs, and 
 time-based-installations. She is exploring both immutable Blackness and the 
 impermanence of its physical manifestations in film. Moorhead has created 
 public art, film exhibitions, and cultural programs, and co-created 
 multimedia projects including Random Occurrences; Cat Calls (Street 
 Harassment project); Practicum; FunkGodJazzMedicine; and Art in Odd Places. 
  Recent awards include the USA Artist Award, Saul Zaentz Innovation 
 Fellowship, Sundance Episodic Lab, Ford Foundation /Just Films/Rockwood 
 Fellowship, Ruby Award, Creative Capital Award, and the  Baker Award Prize. 
 Projects she has directed include; Jay Z’s short film 4:44,  a 
 documentary on artist Damon Davis for PBS, an AR/film  projection 
 installation, As of A Now, and Back and Song, a four channel film 
 installation in collaboration with filmmaker Bradford Young.  She is the 
 author of P is for Pussy, an illustrated “children’s” book and is 
 featured essayist in the anthology How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field 
 Guide to Black Resistance.  She was a 2020 resident at Eyebeam and a 
 Sundance Episodic Lab participant  and awarded the Comedy Central Award  
 and the Women at Sundance Adobe Fellowship for her series co- created with 
 her sister, writer Ericka Blount Danois, entitled fiftyTWO. She was a 
 recent Bellagio Resident in Lake Como Italy, and featured artist in Liquid 
 Blackness Symposium: Claiming the B-Side. She has museum shows touring in 
 St. Louis, NYC, and Berlin in 2024.  \n\nMaori Karmael Holmes is the 
 founder of BlackStar Projects. She has organized film programs at Anthology 
 Film Archives, ICA Philadelphia, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, 
 The Underground Museum, and Whitney Museum of American Art. She has 
 organized the exhibitions Terence Nance: Swarm (2023), Assemblage (2019), 
 and Lossless (2017). She hosts the podcast Many Lumens and her writing has 
 appeared in Seen, Documentary Magazine, The Believer, Film Quarterly, 
 Pleasure Activism, How We Fight White Supremacy, and Collective Wisdom: 
 Co-Creating Media Within Communities Across Disciplines and Algorithms. In 
 2023, Maori was announced as a recipient of the United States Artists 
 Beresford Prize and as a Philadelphia’s Cultural Treasures Fellow. In 
 2022, she was named as one of the Kennedy Center’s #Next50. She was 
 Mediamaker-in-Residence at the Annenberg School at University of 
 Pennsylvania (2020-2023), a Soros Equality Fellow (2019-2020), a DOC NYC 
 New Leader (2021), a Ford Foundation JustFilms/Rockwood Fellow (2016), and 
 a Flaherty Film Seminar Fellow (2014). Maori received her MFA in Film from 
 Temple University, her BA in History from American University, and received 
 formative training at Howard University and CalArts.\n\n\nAll events and 
 exhibitions at the IAS are free and open to the public. \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/10/27/18859914.php
SUMMARY:Art, Liberation, and Institution Building
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences, 100 Panetta Avenue, Santa Cruz
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/10/27/18859914.php
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