Studio LIVE |
Kemi Ilesanmi x Legacy Russell
Kemi ilesanmi. Photo: Dread Scott
The Laundromat Project Create Change Fellow Nikomeh Anderson facilitates activities during the 2017 Kelly Street Annual Block Party. Photo: Osjua Newton; Courtesy of The Laundromat Project.
The Laundromat Project Create Change Fellow Arielle Knight takes a photo of a visitor to the Joseph Daniel Wilson Memorial Garden (Harlem) during their community workshop series “Cultivate Project Harmony.”
Mar 23, 2021
6:00pm
Join us for a Studio LIVE program featuring Kemi Ilesanmi, Executive Director of The Laundromat Project (LP). Prior to joining The LP in 2012, Ilesanmi was Director of Grants and Services at Creative Capital Foundation. From 1998–2004, she was a visual arts curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. She serves on the boards of the Joan Mitchell Foundation and The Broad Room, as well as advisory boards for WNET All Arts and Smith College Museum of Art.
During this conversation, Ilesanmi will sit in conversation with Legacy Russell, Associate Curator, Exhibitions to reflect on the institutional maturation of The LP as it celebrates its 15th anniversary, the strategic vision of the organization, as well as The LP’s theory of change—a concept rooted in the idea that when artists and communities collaborate, meaningful change follows. The pair will discuss the importance and necessity of championing artists of color in order to create communities of care that combat structures of racial, economic, and gendered disenfranchisement.
To watch the talk,visit the Studio Museum’s Instagram page at 6:00 pm EST.
Follow Kemi Ilesanmi here:
Instagram: @kemi70
Website: https://www.kemi-ilesanmi.net/
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Instagram: @laundromat_proj
Twitter: @LaundromatProj
Website: https://www.laundromatproject.org/
Studio LIVE
The Studio Museum in Harlem is deeply committed to finding dynamic ways to connect and engage with our audiences both on- and offline. Designed as a way for our audiences to engage digitally in real-time with artists, curators, thought-leaders, and cultural luminaries the Studio Museum’s online series Studio LIVE invites members of the Studio Museum community to take up and take over the Museum’s digital platforms as public forum and site of creative exploration.