Times Square Arts presents Allison Janae Hamilton s Wacissa for April Midnight Moment
Wacissa by Allison Janae Hamilton.
NEW YORK, NY
.-Times Square Arts, the largest public platform for contemporary performance and visual arts, is presenting Wacissa by Allison Janae Hamilton for the month of April as part of the organizations signature Midnight Moment series in partnership with Marianne Boesky Gallery. Midnight Moment is the worlds largest, longest-running digital art exhibition, synchronized on electronic billboards throughout Times Square nightly from 11:57pm to midnight.
In Wacissa (2019), Hamilton transports viewers through a series of rivers in her home region of North Florida. The rivers she navigates are all linked through the areas Slave Canal, so-called as it was built via slave labor in the 1850s to aid the transport of cotton through the Florida panhandle. Filming from her kayak, Hamilton placed the camera into the water, plunging viewers directly into the r
Encouraging leaders of the city’s 76 Business Investment Districts to
expand support for local arts and arts education
Holding “the
biggest festival the country has ever seen” once it is safe to do so, including “arts organizations from every borough”
Dianne Morales, 2021. Courtesy of Dianne Morales for NYC.
“Dianne understands that NYC has lost nearly 35,000 jobs in the arts and culture industry since the pandemic began, which has devastated our economy and ravaged an industry that makes New York truly thrive,” a spokesperson for Morales’s campaign tells Artnet News. Morales wants to “prioritize supporting theaters and museums and their workers,” but also understands the role culture plays in education and mental health. “Her daughter was struggling until she found the arts in school so it’s something Dianne is very in tune with,” the spokesperson adds.
Filmmaker Julie Dash
In 1991, the film industry’s racial and gender boundaries were shattered by the release of “Daughters of the Dust.” This Sundance award-winner (Best Cinematography) was presented by filmmaker Julie Ethel Dash (1952–), making her the first African-American woman to have a wide theatrical release of a feature film.
The film is a historically accurate fictionalized telling of Dash’s father’s Gullah family who lived on the islands off the southeastern coast of the United States at the dawn of the 20th century. The entire film takes place outdoors, in the woods, and on the beach, as Black history from West Africa to South Carolina is relived through its physical marks on the present.
Darren Walker has been shaking up the world of philanthropy. Since becoming president of the Ford Foundation, one of this country s largest and most storied philanthropies, he s called for donors to become doers. He has reoriented the foundation s more than half a billion dollars in annual grant-making around a single goal fighting inequality, which he calls the greatest harm to our democracy. Lesley Stahl profiles Walker a gay, Black man who grew up poor and now moves easily in the wealthiest circles of America on a mission to push philanthropy to get at the root causes of inequality and injustice. Walker s story will be broadcast on 60 Minutes, Sunday April 4 at 7 p.m., ET/PT on CBS.
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BENNINGTON â Odili Donald Odita, an abstract painter who received his master of fine arts from Bennington College in 1990, has joined the collegeâs board of trustees.
Odita was born in Enugu, Nigeria and lives and works in Philadelphia. He is an abstract painter exploring color both in the figurative historical context and in the sociopolitical sense.
In addition to general trustee duties, Odita will serve on the collegeâs education and community life committee.
âOditaâs creative, professional and sociopolitical expertise will be an immeasurable asset to our work,â said board chair Nick Stephens. âWe look forward to working with him as we continue to strengthen Benningtonâs position in higher education.â