Radicle Conversation
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Thursday, November 7th, from 6PM - 8PM
Join us for a conversation between artist and Floating Museum Co-Director Faheem Majeed and visiting curator Tamar Janashia about their practices of making, stewarding, and challenging art organizations. This conversation marks the occasion of the publication of Planting and Maintaining a Perennial Garden: Shrouds, a catalog that documents and augments Majeed’s 2021 solo exhibition at Hyde Park Art Center as well as to celebrate Janashia’s month-long residency (October 11 – November 16) in Chicago.
Tamar Janashia’s residency is supported by our ongoing partnership with CEC ArtsLink’s acclaimed international fellowship program.
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Tamar Janashia is the founder and director of Culture and Management Lab (CML), a not-for-profit organization in Tbilisi active in the realm of arts, cultural exchange, issues of cultural policy and strategic development of creative industries. She currently serves as a coordinator of the Tbilisi Architecture Biennial and is a consultant of the professional development program for cultural managers in Kyrgyzstan. In 2018-2019, Tamar coordinated the capacity building program for the cultural managers from Central Asian countries. In 2012-2017, she served as a General Administrator of the Regional Art and Culture Program for the South Caucasus.
Faheem Majeed is an artist, educator, curator, and community facilitator. He blends his unique experience as an artist, non-profit administrator, and curator to create works that focus on institutional critique and exhibitions that leverage collaboration to engage his immediate, and the broader community, in meaningful dialogue. Majeed received his BFA from Howard University and his MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC).
From 2005-2011 Majeed served as executive director and curator for the South Side Community Art Center and is currently Co-Director and Founder of the Floating Museum.
Majeed is a recipient of the The Field and MacArthur Foundation’s Leaders for a New Chicago Award (2020), Joyce Foundation Award (2020), the Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant (2015), and the Harpo Foundation Awardee (2016). Majeed’s solo exhibitions include MCA Chicago, SMFA at Tufts, and the Hyde Park Art Center.
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