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SHOW DON’T TELL 2020

Our third annual Show Don’t Tell Symposium was slated for April 25 & 26, 2020, hosted by our friends at the Knockdown Center, and we had a wonderful event planned. However, circumstances have shiiiiifted, so we are shifting too. Our first two Symposia, in 2018 and 2019 were forums where the ideas and projects of Fellows from the Fellowship for Utopian Practice artists together for workshops and panels. This 2020 version of our Symposium will take place online and will be distributed over the course of several months, as our Fellows and Associated Artists share tools and research in response to the global pandemic, continued anti-racist uprising, and our current reality on the ground.

FINAL PROGRAM

THE ART OF CARING : PART 2

Because our first Art of Caring panel was so popular, we decided to bring in more voices to this important conversation - moderated by Alicia Grullón and featuring artists Lisandra Maria Ramos, Dalaeja Foreman and Suhaly Bautista-Carolina

This panel looks at how artists have been working and organizing around mutual aid efforts in New York City since the COVID pandemic hit. Much of the work occurring has involved artists and cultural workers alongside residents, activists, and organizers to alleviate the stress and distress people in the city are experiencing. Some artists are directly on the ground serving food and providing PPE while others are helping promote the work of grassroots work in IBPOC communities in the city, nation or internationally. Oftentimes these initiatives have been the only reliable form of assistance many people in need have received. The Art of Caring takes a moment to talk to a small group of artists based NYC working in some of these networks since March.

October 21, 2020 at 5 pm
FREE, registration required

OUR PANELISTS

Alicia Grullon

Alicia Grullón is from and based in New York City. Grullón’s works have been shown in numerous group exhibitions including The 8th Floor, Bronx Museum of the Arts, BRIC House for Arts and Media, School of Visual Arts, El Museo del Barrio, Columbia University, Socrates Sculpture Park, Performa 11, Old Stone House and Art in Odd Places. She has received grants from the Puffin Foundation, Bronx Council on the Arts, the Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of New York, and Franklin Furnace Archives. She has participated in residencies with Hemispheric Institute for Politics and Performance at New York University, Center for Book Arts, Bronx Museum of Arts on 80 White Street AIM Alum, and Shandanken Project on Governors island. She has presented for the 2017 Whitney Biennial with Occupy Museums, Creative Time Summit 2015, The Royal College of Art, and United States Association for Art Educators. Her work has been written about in the New York Times, Village Voice, Hyperallergic, Creative Time Reports, ArtNet News, The Columbia Spectator and Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory from Taylor and Francis. Grullon is the recipient of the inaugural Colene Brown Art Prize for 2019. She received a BFA from TISCH School of the Arts at New York University, an MFA from the State University of New York at New Paltz and has done doctoral coursework in Art and Art Education at the Teacher’s College at Columbia University.

Dalaeja Foreman

Dalaeja Foreman is a Brooklyn born and raised, community organizer, artist, curator, and first-generation Jamaican-descendant. As a hood-intellectual, her work focuses on political education, community control, and empowerment. Pedagogy and praxis are central to Dalaeja’s practice; with the goal of combating internalized misconceptions oppressed people have of ourselves and legitimatizing resistance through direct action and cultural esteem. She is one of three founders of the Black aesthetic collective, Black Folk NY. She graduated from the Visual Presentation and Exhibition Design program at the Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY in 2014. She is a recent graduate of the MA Contemporary Art and Art Theory of Asia and Africa at SOAS, University of London.

Black Folk is an aesthetic collective that is dedicated to uplifting, promoting, and protecting the individuality of the Black diaspora in culture through original collaborative projects.

Lisandra Maria Ramos

Lisandra Maria Ramos born and raised in Harlem & Quisqueya Heights. She is one of the Co-Founders and Co-Directors of Fulana, a Latina video and satire collective. An alumna of the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab and the Women's Project Director's lab. Lisandra has been an instructor for EMERGEnyc, at the Hemispheric Institute for performance and politics where she served as the Assistant Director until recently. Lisandra currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Centro Cívico Cultural Dominicano. She holds a B.A and M.A. degree in multidisciplinary arts from Union College and NYU’s Gallatin School respectively, in addition to an M.F.A from NYU’s Graduate School of Arts & Science in creative writing.

Suhaly Bautista-Carolina

Suhaly Bautista-Carolina is an herbalist, artist, educator, and community organizer whose work is rooted in the collective wisdom and power of community. Born in New York City to AfroCaribbean parents, Suhaly’s work, which lives intentionally at the intersection of justice, equity, and the arts, has been executed throughout her roles at the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, Creative Time, and Brooklyn Museum and in various capacities with organizations including The Laundromat Project, ArtBuilt, and Brooklyn Children's Museum. Her work has been published in New York Times Magazine, Oprah Magazine, La Galeria Magazine, Remezcla, United Nations’ International Museum of Women, and Caribbean Vistas Journal. She is a 2016 alumna of CCCADI’s Innovative Cultural Advocacy Fellowship and a graduate of Columbia’s Summer Teachers and Scholars Institute, "The Many Worlds of Black New York." In 2017, Suhaly curated Black Artstory Month, a project of the Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership, bringing exhibitions, murals, performances, film screenings, and more to Brooklyn’s Fort Greene and Clinton Hill neighborhoods. She has shared her work as a panelist at conferences and festivals across the country including, ArtChangeUS, ArtPrize7, Open Engagement, POWarts (the Professional Organization for Women in the Arts), Region(es), and the Sacred Vibes NYC Spiritual Herbalism Conference. Suhaly is a Weeksville Heritage Center Ambassador and serves on the Advisory Boards to Black Girl Project and More Art. She is a founding member of the collective, present futures, a member of Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter, and Creative Director of Black Magic Afrofuturism Book Club. She earned her B.A. and MPA from NYU, where she was named one of “NYU’s 15 Most Influential Students.”

In 2019, Suhaly joined The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Education department as Senior Managing Educator of Audience Development and Engagement. She is living in Brooklyn with her wife and their 3-year old daughter, Luna, and developing her herbalism brand, Moon Mother Apothecary.

THE ART OF CARING : PART 1

Our Virtual Symposium ends with a vibrant panel on mutual aid moderated by Alicia Grullón and featuring artists Lizania Cruz, Janine Renee Cunningham, Francheska Alcántara, and Laura Anderson Barbata.

September 23, 2020 at 5 pm
FREE, registration required

THIRD PROGRAM:

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Dark Patterns & Double-Binds
Navigating crises and the complexities of ecosystemic change
A project by Pattern Detector with Culture Push

Dark Patterns and Double Binds is a free participatory discussion series that meets twice
a month to discuss the emerging reality of the Covid-19 era. How are we as artists, designers, performers, creatives and art-workers, adapting and dealing with the intersection of multiple crises as individuals, and possibilities for social transformation at larger scales?
In just seventy-five days Covid-19 has swept across the planet, killing hundreds of thousands, triggering lockdowns, interrupting industry and daily routines, while Black liberation protests, sparked by the murder of George Floyd have erupted in fifty countries. As 2020 rages on, we pause to reflect on Covid-19 as a catalyst, social
movement continuity, the intersection of creativity, trauma and systemic change, and ways people can collaborate to make a positive difference. The series adopts a trans-ideological approach, centering diverse viewpoints and beliefs over group-think. Our goal is to create a rich tapestry of people in conversation, drawing on patterns of the
unfolding world among us.

Method:
Each session consists of two facilitated parts.
During Part One, we practice active listening, checking-in with participants who share life-
updates, personal stories and insights from the COVID-19 era.
Part Two focuses on the potential for eco-systemic or planetary change, drawing from prompts culled from the stories shared in part one.

When:
August sessions will be held virtually via Zoom on Saturday August 15th and 29nd at 6pm EDT. Each session is 90 minutes long.

How to register:
RSVP to patterndetector@gmail.com with your name, email, phone number and the session you plan to attend. Space is limited to six attendees per date for the inaugural August sessions.

Pattern Detector is an artist/activist run collaborative project, developing peer-to-peer
tactical movement support groups and educational programs. Its first initiative, Dark Patterns & Double Binds, explores the intersection of personal and collective well-being and potentials for systemic change.

FIRST PROGRAM:

The Symposium was kicked off by the wonderful healing artist and Reiki practitioner Damali Abrams. (Preview Below)

SECOND PROGRAM:

Escritura en tránsito / Writing in Transit is a project aimed, primarily, at the Spanish-speaking community who commutes thorough St. George Ferry Station in Staten Island. The project also has a bilingual component, so that all people passing thorough the station could be invited to read and write. This is the first time I organized a workshop in a transit area.

Claudia: "“From experience, I know that movement is not necessarily at odds with concentration. On the contrary, it can feed writing.”

In Spring 2020, as the pandemic ripped through New York City, it became that the public component of the project would have to shift. The pandemic had a deep impact on many of the people that Claudia would have worked with, people that worked and lived on Staten Island. Many of them were essential workers, undocumented immigrants, or both. They craved an outlet, so Claudia decided to conduct the workshop online, as part of the Show Don’t Tell Symposium. A public performance of writing from the workshop took place on May 27, 2020, and was attended by over 35 people, mostly from Staten Island and the Bronx, with some far-flung attendees from Guatemala, Colombia, and other countries in Central and South America.

LUGAR COMÚN / COMMON PLACE

May 27, 2020 at 6:30 pm EST

Language often asks that we prod at it, insisting upon us to think deeply about the accessibility of articulating shared experiences. To find meaning and camarderie in the gaps between understanding and misunderstanding. To tell very specific stories while continuing to expand our notions of community.

Lugar Comùn was a public reading in Spanish by immigrant women from various neighborhoods in New York, all participants from a Creative Writing workshop facilitated by Claudia Prado and supported by Culture Push, Poets & Writers, and Word Up Community Bookshop.

Lugar Comùn: Una lectura del taller de escritura creativa en español que realizamos durante las últimas semanas mujeres inmigrantes de diversos barrios de Nueva York. Aunque no hemos podido encontrarnos, continuamos compartiendo la lectura y la escritura. Algunas hemos pasado estas semanas en las casas, otras yendo a trabajar. Para todas, las palabras son una de las maneras de hacer lo mejor que podemos de estos días, de contarlos desde nuestro lugar, de compartir y sostenernos.

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Leerán: Carmen de los Santos, Elizabeth Tolaba, Erika González, Felicitas Cordes, Laura Camila, Leticia Reyes, María Guaillazaca, María Olimpia Dávalos, María Sánchez, Maritza del Rosario, Neshi Galindo, Rosalba González, Silvia Reyes, Zonia Ruíz

Show Don't Tell Symposium 2020

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SHOW DON’T TELL 2020

FINAL PROGRAM

THE ART OF CARING : PART 2

OUR PANELISTS

THE ART OF CARING : PART 1

THIRD PROGRAM:

FIRST PROGRAM:

SECOND PROGRAM:

We are continuing to update this page as the Symposium develops. Stay tuned!

Show Don't Tell Symposium 2020

ARCHIVED

SHOW DON’T TELL 2020

FINAL PROGRAM

﻿THE ART OF CARING : PART 2

OUR PANELISTS

THE ART OF CARING : PART 1

THIRD PROGRAM:

FIRST PROGRAM:

SECOND PROGRAM:

We are continuing to update this page as the Symposium develops. Stay tuned!

THE ART OF CARING : PART 2