April 8 – May 27, 2022
Curated by Ciera Alyse McKissick, featuring:
Abigail Lucien, Janelle Ayana Miller, Kevin Demery, Lakela Brown, Rhonda Wheatley, and Shonna Pryor
Apr 8th 2022
Relic, inspired by the traveling billboard piece, “There Are Black People in the Future,” by artist Alisha Wormsley, explores what cultural Black artifacts and emblems of today will be left behind to reflect our time here and inform the future. McKissick poses the question, “what will we find when we get there?” to explore what shapes future identities in the beyond. Artists Abigail Lucien, Janelle Ayana Miller, Kevin Demery, Lakela Brown, Rhonda Wheatley, and Shonna Pryor explore Black relics through documentation, intuition, collecting, spirituality, and the land through mineral and food.
Curator Ciera Alyse McKissick has created a complementary website for the exhibition that allows for a deep dive into the works, artists, and influences that make up the exhibition. The site will be regularly updated with posts throughout the show.
Ciera Alyse McKissick is an independent writer, curator, cultural producer, and the founder of AMFM, an organization whose mission is to promote emerging artists. She is also the Public Programs Manager at the Hyde Park Art Center and on the board of Equity Arts (a project of Heaven Gallery). She created AMFM, originally a web magazine, as an independent study project in 2009 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she studied Journalism and Mass Communications. Her work since then often involves collaboration through supporting Black and brown artists, local arts organizations, and seeks to stimulate community engagement that’s driven by inclusivity, accessibility, intention, and care.
Projects and events have been featured in Terremoto MX, NewCity, Sixty Inches From Center, ABC 7 Chicago, The Chicago Tribune, WGN, WTTW, Chicago Reader, The Chicago Sun Times, Southside Weekly, Afropunk, and more.
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Tags: Abigail Lucien, Arts Incubator, Chicago, Ciera Alyse McKissick, Janelle Ayana Miller, Kevin Demery, Lakela Brown, Relic, Rhonda Wheatley, Shonna Pryor, Washington Park
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