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The following are exhibitions, organizations, and community initiatives that we have been honored to be a part of.
Shinnecock Speaks Exhibition Catalogue
Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio, Inc. presented “Shinnecock Speaks,” an extraordinary exhibition that amplifies the rich cultural heritage and contemporary expressions of the Shinnecock Indian Nation. This groundbreaking showcase underscores our commitment to promoting Indigenous art, fostering collaboration, and championing diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion within the arts. Curatorial Director, Cheyenne Wyzzard-Jones offered a reflection of the exhibition for the catalogue.
Museums as Systems
Remembering Black Imagination: Centering Learning in Museum Spaces
The Studio Museum in Harlem presents Museums as Systems. Curatorial Director, Cheyenne Wyzzard-Jones host a panel conversation with Devin Malone, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and Jamal Batts to examine the barriers to entry within museums while reflecting on how we have seen and hope to further advance the Black imagination. Attendees were invited to reflect on how to center collective learning and community engagement as the priority within museum spaces. This panel explored how educators, curators and artists can co-create sustainable and dynamic museum spaces.
Expand The Erotic: Audre Lorde
“Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power”
The American LGBTQ+ Museum partnered with Artist Tasha Douge to bring artist and curators to be in conversation with Audre Lorde’s “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power”. This a seminal text in understanding the intersections of identity, power, and resistance. By revisiting her work, we honor her legacy as a trailblazer in queer and feminist literature, and we gain valuable insights into harnessing the erotic as a means of personal and collective empowerment.
Activate Equity: Power and Representation
The Field annual gathering of artists, cultural workers, activists, and educators tackling the question, "How can we create a more equitable arts sector?" The idea of Visibility vs. Power/Representation is often overlooked in DEI practices everywhere. While visibility may open some doors for those of us in the arts sector. It is simply not enough just to be seen. Curatorial Director, Cheyenne Wyzzard-Jones joins Andrius Alvarez-Backus, Roquin-Jon Quichocho Siongco, and C. Quintana to discuss what does it mean to possess actual representation? How can power be shifted equitably so that those represented have real agency? What will lead to true self-determination for all artists and cultural workers?
Reaching Inwards
A Collection of Responses to Issues in Art, Curation and Community Care Roundtable Series
Indigenous Curatorial Collective programmed four closed roundtables to take place amongst Indigenous communities that are often neglected from the National discourse on Indigenous arts, curation, and community care. The “Issues In…” series explored the nuance and pluralism within the ICCA’s membership as well as the diversity within Indigenous communities across what is currently known as Canada, spotlighting Afro-Indigenous, Northern, Francophone, Queer and 2Spirit voices.