Event time:
Monday, October 30, 2023 - 4:00pm
Event description:
The Black Feminist Collective at Yale hosts Steffani Jemison for a lecture and a reading from her novella, A Rock, A River, A Street. Steffani Jemison is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions, screenings, and performances at JOAN Los Angeles, Greene Naftali, Annet Gelink, Mass MoCA, Jeu de Paume, CAPC Bordeaux, the Museum of Modern Art, LAXART, Lincoln Center, and the Gene Siskel Film Center, among others. Jemison’s work has been supported by a Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Creative Capital Award, a Radcliffe Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, a Tiffany Foundation Fellowship, and many other grants and awards. Artist residencies include the Studio Museum in Harlem AIR, the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Project Row Houses, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston CORE Program, the International Studio and Curatorial Program, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
For this event, Jemison will discuss her art and read from her recently published novella, A Rock, A River, A Street (Primary Information, 2022). This event will be moderated by Erica Edwards, Professor of African American Studies and English at Yale University.