Crown Futures and Meta Modes Opening at the Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art and Storytelling
IN THE SALON: THE CROWN FUTURES: SHANI PETERS IN COLLABORATION WITH SUGAR HILL YOUTH
July 16 to December 31, 2016
A multimedia art work and public engagement project directed by artist Shani Peters, The Crown Futures celebrates concepts of self-determination through explorations of traditional head-dresses from African, indigenous American, and Western cultures. This site-specific installation was created for The Salon by Shani in collaboration with local youth, ages 5 to 13, in workshops at the Museum. In the artist's words: I am interested in community building, activism histories, reinterpreted models of record keeping and popular media subversion. My practice seeks to share the imaginative rewards I receive from my creative life with the communities that I am physically and/or emotionally close to.
IN THE STUDIO: META-MODES: NEW WORK BY
DAVID SHROBE
July 16 to August 20, 2016
The Museum’s first Artist-in-Residence, David Shrobe, shares the work created during the course of his year in the Museum’s Studio. David is a fourth generation Harlem resident, Joan Mitchell Teaching Fellow, and Hunter College graduate. Layering a range of media, David manipulates the familiar as he investigates notions of consumption, history, communal experiences and personal narrative. In his words: Working primarily with painting, drawing, collage, and objects, I draw from personal and cultural histories as well as childhood memorabilia to explore how we carry remnants of our past into the present and even into our imagined futures.
Read MoreJuly 16 to December 31, 2016
A multimedia art work and public engagement project directed by artist Shani Peters, The Crown Futures celebrates concepts of self-determination through explorations of traditional head-dresses from African, indigenous American, and Western cultures. This site-specific installation was created for The Salon by Shani in collaboration with local youth, ages 5 to 13, in workshops at the Museum. In the artist's words: I am interested in community building, activism histories, reinterpreted models of record keeping and popular media subversion. My practice seeks to share the imaginative rewards I receive from my creative life with the communities that I am physically and/or emotionally close to.
IN THE STUDIO: META-MODES: NEW WORK BY
DAVID SHROBE
July 16 to August 20, 2016
The Museum’s first Artist-in-Residence, David Shrobe, shares the work created during the course of his year in the Museum’s Studio. David is a fourth generation Harlem resident, Joan Mitchell Teaching Fellow, and Hunter College graduate. Layering a range of media, David manipulates the familiar as he investigates notions of consumption, history, communal experiences and personal narrative. In his words: Working primarily with painting, drawing, collage, and objects, I draw from personal and cultural histories as well as childhood memorabilia to explore how we carry remnants of our past into the present and even into our imagined futures.
