EventsThe New Social Environment#419

Notes from Black Wall Street: Crystal Z Campbell

Featuring Campbell and Andrew Woolbright

Monday, November 1, 2021 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.

Artist Crystal Z Campbell joins Rail contributor Andrew Woolbright for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading from Keetje Kuipers.

In this Talk

Check out Notes from Black Wall Street: Upon a Century, on view at Microscope Gallery from October 28–December 4 →

Crystal Z Campbell

Photo by Melissa Lukenbaugh

Multidisciplinary artist, experimental filmmaker, and writer of African American, Filipino, and Chinese descents Crystal Z Campbell finds complexity in public secrets—fragments of information known by many but untold or unspoken. Select honors include a Guggenheim, Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship; Pollock-Krasner; MAP Fund; MacDowell; Rijksakademie; Whitney ISP; UNDO Fellowship; and Skowhegan. Select exhibitions/screenings include the Drawing Center, ICA-Philadelphia, and SFMOMA. Campbell writing is featured in two artist books (VSW Press), World Literature Today, Monday Journal, GARAGE, and Hyperallergic. Founder of archiveacts.com, Campbell is currently a Distinguished Scholar at the University of Buffalo who lives and works in New York & Oklahoma.

Andrew Woolbright

Artist, curator, and critic Andrew Woolbright is based in Brooklyn, New York, and is an MFA graduate from RISD in painting. Woolbright is the founder and director of the gallery Below Grand located on the Lower East Side in New York. In addition to curating, he is an Editor-at-Large at the Brooklyn Rail. In 2021, Woolbright curated the show Density Betrays Us with Angela Dufresne and Cash Ragona at the Hole; and curated shows at Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and Hesse Flatow in the summer of 2022. He currently teaches at School of Visual Arts and Pratt Institute and is a 2021–2022 resident at the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program in Dumbo.

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

Dao Strom

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.

https://www.daostrom.com/

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 🌈✨