EventsThe New Social Environment#1175
Allison Janae Hamilton: Celestine
Featuring Hamilton and Le'Andra LeSeur
Friday, February 28, 2025 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Artist Allison Janae Hamilton joins Rail contributor Le'Andra LeSeur for a conversation.
Allison Janae Hamilton

Allison Janae Hamilton draws on her upbringing in the rural American South, weaving themes of environmental justice, folklore, and mythology into sculpture, photography, painting, and film. Hamilton has exhibited her work at the Museum of Modern Art; the Studio Museum in Harlem, MoMA PS1 in New York and the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Hamilton's work is in numerous collections including the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; The Menil Collection, Houston; the Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. Hamilton received her PhD in American Studies from New York University and her MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University. She lives and works in New York, NY.
Le’Andra LeSeur

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 🌈✨