In Iris Hu's Fine Arts course, Fibrous Kinship, Sonia Louise Davis will discuss her recent works and read from her forthcoming publication, slow and soft and righteous, improvising at the end of the world (and how we make a new one).
This event is open to the Otis Community (students, alumni, faculty, staff).
Link to lecture via zoom: https://otis.zoom.us/j/7971711568
Born and raised in New York City, Sonia Louise Davis is a visual artist, writer, and performer. She has presented her work at the Whitney Museum (NY), ACRE (Chicago), Sadie Halie Projects (Minneapolis), Visitor Welcome Center (LA), Ortega y Gasset (Brooklyn) and Rubber Factory (NY), among other venues. Residencies and fellowships include the Laundromat Project’s Create Change Fellowship (NY), Civitella Ranieri (Italy), New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellowship at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (Brooklyn), Culture Push Fellowship for Utopian Practice (NY) and, most recently, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace Artist in Residence Program (NY). Her forthcoming book, slow and soft and righteous, improvising at the end of the world (and how we make a new one), will be published in 2021 with Co-Conspirator Press, a publishing platform that operates out of the Women’s Center for Creative Work in Los Angeles. An honors graduate of Wesleyan University (BA, African American Studies) and alumna of the Whitney Independent Study Program, Davis lives and works in Harlem.
Link to artist's website: https://sonialouisedavis.com/
Image credit: a score to keep time / a score to lose time / but never yourself, in it (Solo exhibition curated by Carlos Rosales-Silva, presented at Sadie Halie Projects in Minneapolis, MN, September 29 - October 20, 2017; supported by a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant.)
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November 14, 2020
