Join us for a series of informal half-hour talks by artists and writers focusing on works in the Shifting Shorelines exhibition.
Saturday, January 11 at 1:00pm: Jean-Marc Superville Sovak
Jean-Marc Superville Sovak is a multidisciplinary artist and teaching professional whose work is deeply rooted in the community around him. His public works include organizing and officiating a “Burial for White Supremacy” (Unison Arts Center, New Paltz, NY), retracing speculative steps on the Underground Railroad across historic sites in the Hudson Valley (Wilderstein Historic Site, Rhinebeck, NY), designing memorials to Afro-Dutch pioneers in colonial New Netherlands (Rockland County Art in Public Places), and “I Draw & You Talk”, a storefront portrait-drawing studio doubling as an oral history project (Matteawan Gallery, Beacon, NY.) His current practice, “a-Historical Landscapes”, involves altering 19th-century landscape engravings to include images borrowed from contemporaneous Anti-Slavery publications. A selection of works from this series is included in the Shifting Shorelines exhibition.
Saturday, January 11 at 2:00pm: Eric K. Washington
Eric K. Washington is a New York City-based independent historian. His most recent book, Boss of the Grips: The Life of James H. Williams and the Red Caps of Grand Central Terminal, received the Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in New York History from Columbia University's New York Academy of History. He also authored the book, Manhattanville: Old Heart of West Harlem, and the permanent historical signage at nearby West Harlem Piers Park, which received the 2010 MASterworks Award from the Municipal Art Society of New York.
