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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230518T190000
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URL:https://www.handson.org/events/brooklyn-talks-legacies-of-the-great-mi
 gration-with-akea-brionne-leslie-hewitt-and-robert-pruitt/
SUMMARY:Brooklyn Talks: Legacies of the Great Migration with Akea Brionne\,
  Leslie Hewitt\, and Robert Pruitt
DESCRIPTION:Tickets are $16 and include after-hours admission to A Movement
  in Every Direction. Member tickets are $14. Not a Member? Join today! Add
  a copy of the exhibition catalogue at checkout.\n\nThis program will incl
 ude ASL interpretation. For access needs\, please email us at access@brook
 lynmuseum.org.\n\n\nIris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium\, 3rd Floor\n\n\n
 \nExplore the practices of three artists featured in A Movement in Every D
 irection: Legacies of the Great Migration in this conversation with Akea B
 rionne\, Leslie Hewitt\, Robert Pruitt\, and exhibition curator Kimberli G
 ant. Akea Brionne is an interdisciplinary researcher and artist who explor
 es postcolonial Creole identity through photography and textile-based work
 . Hewitt revisits the still-life genre through minimalist assemblages of o
 rdinary materials\, which suggest the porosity between personal and sociop
 olitical histories. Pruitt often weaves spirituality and symbolism into la
 rge-scale figurative portraits to evoke a diverse and radical Black past\,
  present\, and future. Using the Great Migration as their starting point\,
  Akea Brionne\, Hewitt\, and Pruitt created new works for the exhibition t
 hat consider the profound impact of this movement of millions of Black Ame
 ricans across the South and the country.\n\nMasks are required in the Audi
 torium and will be available upon arrival.\n--\nImage caption and credit: 
 Akea Brionne (born New Orleans\, Louisiana\, 1996\; based in Detroit\, Mic
 higan). Porch Sittin’\, from the series An Ode to (You)’all\, 2022. 
 Jacquard tapestry\, Poly-Fil\, rhinestones\, 40 × 27 in. (101.6 × 68.6 c
 m). Courtesy of the artist\n\n
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CATEGORIES:Brooklyn Museum
LOCATION:Brooklyn Museum\, 200 Eastern Parkway\, Brooklyn\, NY\, United Sta
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