October 24, 2016, 6:30pm
Museum of the City of New York
1220 5th Ave
New York, NY
VoCA and the Joan Mitchell Foundation’s CALL (Creating a Living Legacy) program are pleased to announce the next event in our on-going CALL/VoCA Talks series. On Monday, October 24, CALL artist Henrietta Mantooth will sit down with VoCA Program Committee Member Jennifer Hickey to discuss her life, legacy, and recent installations around the themes of racial inequity and mass incarceration. The event will be held at 6:30pm at the Museum of the City of New York, located at 1220 5th Ave, New York. Space will be limited, so we ask that you please RSVP in advance to [email protected].
Henrietta Mantooth is a New York-based artist whose practice spans painting, drawing, and installation. Mantooth’s childhood and early education in Missouri instilled a keen awareness of social and economic injustice, topics around which she has centered her artistic practice. She has traveled and exhibited widely, working and studying in Latin America for nearly two decades, and creating art informed by her years spent in the theater—performing and crafting costumes and sets for off-off-Broadway and university productions. She has been the recipient of numerous grants, including those sponsored by the Joan Mitchell Foundation (2011–13), New York Foundation for the Arts (2013) and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2013). Mantooth has recently completed residencies at Yaddo, the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, and the MacDowell Colony as a Fellow. She will be an artist-in-residence at the Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans this fall. Her current work, a series of traveling installations entitled Jail Birds & The New Jim Crow, seeks to spark dialogue around iniquities of the United States prison system.
In 2015, VoCA partnered with the Joan Mitchell Foundation Creating a Living Legacy (CALL) program to put forward a series of Talks that focus on the diverse practices of the featured artists, highlighting the innovative CALL initiative while also underscoring the importance of speaking with artists to document the production, presentation, and preservation of their work. Thus far, VoCA has produced public programs with CALL artists Blane De St. Croix, Arlan Huang, Juan Sanchez, Mimi Smith, and the late Jaime Davidovich. The next event, to be held on Saturday, November 19 at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, will feature Emmett Wigglesworth in conversation with curator Christie Mitchell.
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