EventsThe New Social Environment#360

heroes and sheroes: Corita Kent

Featuring Jeffrey Gibson, Carrie Moyer, and Dan Cameron

Tuesday, August 10, 2021 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.

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Artists Jeffrey Gibson and Carrie Moyer join Rail Editor-at-Large Dan Cameron for a conversation on the legacy of artist Corita Kent. We conclude with a poetry reading by Ama Birch.

Joyce Kozloff

A photo of Joyce Kozloff on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Photo by Grace Roselli
Artist Joyce Kozloff is considered a major figure in both the Pattern and Decoration and the Feminist art movements of the 1970s, and since the early 1990s, she has utilized mapping as a structure for layering multiple meanings and examining the ways that information is communicated. Her artistic practice aims to fuse widespread cultural traditions, including applied and decorative arts, with an activist temperament. She charts physical and diplomatic terrain, creating places, real and imagined, to dramatize the intersections of culture and politics. Kozloff has also completed 18 public artworks in the US and abroad, most recently Memory and Time, a GSA commission at the federal courthouse in Greenville, SC opening to the public on August 16.

Ann McCoy

A photo of Ann McCoy on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Portrait by Phong H. Bui

New York-based sculptor, painter, and art critic Ann McCoy is an Editor-at-Large for the Brooklyn Rail. She lectured at the Yale School of Drama Design Department for 10 years, and taught in the Art History Department at Barnard College for 20 years. Ann’s work is included in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, and others. In 2019, she was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Prix de Rome in 1989, and a D.A.A.D. Kunstler Berliner Award in 1977.  Ann McCoy worked with Prof. C.A. Meier, Jung’s heir apparent for twenty-five years in Zurich. She has studied alchemy since the early seventies in Zurich and in Rome at the Vatican Library.

The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we're fortunate to have Dao Strom reading.

Dao Strom

A photo of Dao Strom on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Artist Dao Strom works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. She is the author of Instrument (Fonograf Editions, 2020) and its musical companion Traveler’s Ode (Antiquated Future Records, 2020); a bilingual poetry-art book, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else (AJAR Press); a memoir, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People, and song cycle, East/West; and two books of fiction, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys and Grass Roof, Tin Roof. Born in Vietnam, Strom grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California and lives in Portland, Oregon. She is co-founder of two collective art projects, She Who Has No Master(s), and De-Canon.

We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨

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