BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:11090@cranbrookartmuseum.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20240217T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20240217T200000 DTSTAMP:20240216T172040Z URL:https://cranbrookartmuseum.org/events/skilled-labor-panel-discussion-d ia/ SUMMARY:Skilled Labor: Black Realism in Detroit Panel Discussion at Detroit Institute of Arts DESCRIPTION:*This panel discussion is sold out! If seats remain\, those wit hout RSVP will be allowed in\, however standing room will not be available and guests attending without RSVP may be turned away once the room is ful l.*\n\nJoin us for a panel discussion at the Detroit Institute of Arts wit h Detroit artists Sydney James\, Hubert Massey\, and Mario Moore\, co-orga nized by Cranbrook Art Museum and the Detroit Institute of Arts\, introduc tions given by Laura Mott\, Chief Curator\, Cranbrook Art Museum\, and Kat ie Pfohl\, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art\, Detroit Institute of Ar ts.  \n\nOrganized to accompany the Cranbrook Art Museum’s exhibition S killed Labor: Black Realism in Detroit\, on view at Cranbrook Art Museum t hrough March 3\, 2024\, this discussion will take place in the DIA’s Riv era Court\, the location of Diego Rivera’s iconic Detroit Industry Mural s (1932-33).   \n\nThe Detroit Industry Murals are a hallmark of the DI A and the city of Detroit\, and have influenced generations of artists\, p articularly those part of Detroit’s vibrant contemporary mural movement. During this discussion\, James\, Massey\, and Moore will discuss Rivera ’s enduring influence on mural practice in Detroit today. A symbol of cr eative vibrancy for the city\, contemporary mural work also raises questio ns of representation\, equity\, and ownership connected to Rivera’s expl orations of labor and industry almost a century ago. This vital dialogue a mong artists will explore how mural work continues to shape Detroit’s ar tistic and cultural landscape.  \n\n \n\nFree with registration.\nRegist er here.\n\nEnter the museum at the John R. Entrance behind the DIA. Parki ng available in the Museum Parking Lot on John R. Street\, south of Kirby Street and north of Warren Avenue for $7. \n\n \;\n\nMario Moore live s and works in Detroit\, where he was born and raised. He attended the Col lege for Creative Studies (BFA Illustration\, 2009)\, Detroit\; and Yale U niversity School of Art (MFA Painting\, 2013)\, New Haven\, Connecticut. \ n\nMario Moore’s exquisitely rendered realist paintings focus on the per sonal\, social\, and political implications of our segregated society. Pre senting stories of his own life and those of friends and family\, Moore we aves together multiple references to history\, art\, politics\, and litera ture to complete his narrative. \n\nMoore has been awarded the prestigiou s Princeton Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University and has participated as an artist-in-residence at Knox College\, Duke University\, Fountainhea d Residency\, and the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. He has been featur ed in The New York Times among other publications. In 2021\, he had his fi rst museum survey exhibition\, Enshrined: Presence + Preservation\, at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit and is a recipient of a Kresge Visual Artist Fellowship in 2023. Moore’s work is in several public and private collections\, including the Detroit Institut e of Arts\; The Studio Museum in Harlem\, New York\; Princeton University Art Museum\, Princeton\, New Jersey\; and Cranbrook Art Museum\, Bloomfiel d Hills\, Michigan. \n\n \n\nDr. Hubert Massey was born in Flint\, Michi gan\, but has lived in Detroit since graduating from Grand Valley State Un iversity (BA\, 1983) and the Slade Institute of Fine Arts at the Universit y of London. Massey received an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from his a lma mater Grand Valley State University\, Allendale\, Michigan\, in 2012.  \n\nMassey learned the centuries-old fresco technique from former assist ants of legendary artist Diego Rivera when they performed restoration work on the Detroit Industry Murals at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Massey i s the only known African American commissioned fresco artist in the United States. Filled with bold\, vibrant images\, his murals can be spotted thr oughout the Detroit metropolitan region\, appearing in places such as: Mex icantown\, Greektown\, Campus Martius\, the Charles H. Wright Museum of Af rican American History\, the Detroit Athletic Club\, and numerous other la ndmark buildings. Frescoes created by Dr. Massey throughout the state of M ichigan are located at Huntington Place\, Detroit Athletic Club\, Grand Va lley State University\, and the Flint Institute of Arts. Most recently\, M assey completed a fresco mural at the Huntington Bank National Headquarter s building in downtown Detroit. Massey was awarded a Kresge Visual Artist Fellowship in 2011. \n\n \;\n\nSydney James lives and works in Detroi t\, where she was born and raised. James attended the College for Creative Studies (BFA Illustration\, 2001) in Detroit. \n\nJames is proudly a gir l raised in and by Detroit\, with the colors and brushwork of her painting as strikingly defiant and ever-changing as the city itself. James’ mura ls have transformed Detroit’s skyline and its arts narrative. Her work a ppears on walls\, canvas\, fabric\, Vans shoes\, and “on whatever she da mned well chooses.” In paintings and murals\, James places Black women f irst\, never last or forgotten. The act of painting is a pointed mission t o let each brushstroke spark conversations long silenced\, and to boldly r ewrite the narrative in hues evoking the complexities of Black reality\, j oy\, pain\, and phoenix-like resilience.  \n\nShe is a co-founder of the biannual BLKOUT Walls street mural festival which debuted in Detroit in 2 021. James’ artwork is featured by major marketing brands\, such as: Van s\, PepsiCo\, Ford Motor Company\, Detroit Pistons\, Detroit Lions\, as we ll as being one of the faces of the Lip Bar brand of cosmetics. \n\nAn aw ardee of the 2017 Kresge Foundation Fellowship\, James’ work has been ex hibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit\, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History\, Inner State Gallery\, PlayGround Detr oit\, Collective Detroit Gallery\, Detroit Artist Market\, Red Bull House of Art Detroit\, and Janice Charach Gallery\, as well as the Art Beats + L yrics traveling exhibition. James’ murals have been exhibited in New Orl eans\, Brooklyn\, Atlanta\, and Los Angeles\, in addition to Pow!Wow! Hawa i’i\, Pow!Wow! Long Beach\, Pow!Wow! Worchester\, and across six contine nts. \n\n \;\n\nKatie Pfohl is a curator and writer who centers colla borations with artists and community. Her work seeks to amplify the voices of artists\, foster connections between people\, and create space to enga ge with the urgent issues of our time.   \n\nPfohl is Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts. At DIA she is worki ng on a reinstallation of the museum’s contemporary galleries\, collabor ating with curatorial colleagues as well as local and national advisors to reimagine the space and collection. She is also expanding the scope and i mpact of the museum’s contemporary collection through acquisitions and r esearch\, and developing new exhibitions\, projects\, and partnerships. Fr om 2015 to 2022\, she was Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Ne w Orleans Museum of Art. At NOMA she curated almost thirty exhibitions\; a cquired or commissioned over one hundred works of art by local\, national\ , and international artists\; worked collaboratively on innovative educati onal programming and community engagement\; and reinstalled the museum’s twentieth-century and contemporary galleries.   \n\nPfohl completed he r Ph.D. in art history at Harvard University in 2014\, and in 2006 she par ticipated in the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York. She has he ld positions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art\; the Metropolitan Museum o f Art\, New York\; the Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston\; and the LSU Museum o f Art. \n\n \;\n\nLaura Mott is the Chief Curator at Cranbrook Art Mu seum and the co-curator of Skilled Labor: Black Realism in Detroit alongsi de artist Mario Moore. She joined Cranbrook Art Museum in November 2013 fo llowing an active career as a curator and lecturer in both the United Stat es and Europe. A selection of recent exhibitions includes Sonya Clark: We Are Each Other (2023)\, Tunde Olaniran: Made A Universe (2022)\, Olga de A maral: To Weave A Rock (2021)\,  Allie McGhee: Banana Moon Horn (2021)\, Shapeshifters: Transformations in Contemporary Art (2020)\, Landlord Color s: On Art\, Economy\, and Materiality (2019)\, The Truth Is I Hear You (20 16)\, Nick Cave: Here Hear (2015). Previously\, she has held various curat orial positions at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden\, Gothenburg Kon sthall\, IASPIS in Stockholm\, Mission 17 in San Francisco\, and The Whitn ey Museum of American Art in New York. In 2016\, she was the recipient of a Warhol Curatorial Fellowship.  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cranbrookartmuseum.org/wp-content/upload s/2024/01/IMG_2037.jpeg CATEGORIES:Lectures + Talks,Skilled Labor: Black Realism in Detroit LOCATION:Detroit Institute of Arts\, 5200 Woodward Ave\, Detroit\, MI\, 482 02\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=5200 Woodward Ave\, Detroit \, MI\, 48202\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Detroit Institute of Arts:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR