Opening Reception: Tue, February 3, 5:00-8:00pm
FREE and open to all; please RSVP using the Register button. Exhibition continues through Sat, February 28, 2015.
Jacob Lawrence Gallery hours are Tue-Fri, 10:00am-5:00pm, and Sat, 1:00pm-5:00pm.
The Jacob Lawrence Gallery is pleased to announce a new initiative to dedicate every February to artists and ideas relating to the African diaspora in honor of the gallery’s namesake and Black History Month.We are thrilled to inaugurate this new program with a special project by the YAMS Collective. HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN? is “a collective of artists, writers, composers, academics, filmmakers and performers from around the world who collaborate across disciplines and cities.” For the Jacob Lawrence Gallery, YAMS has designed a fully-immersive, multi-media installation of The Way Black Machine (2014), an internet archive of activism around black embodiment to address, “contemporary conditions such as police brutality, American-funded international violence, and the ways that memes and hashtags collapse and make legible such threats to personhood.” This exhibition is being presented in partnership with the New Foundation Seattle. They are sponsoring and/or hosting a number of other events with members of HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN? To see all the events, go to the calendar link on the New Foundation Seattle website. See additional information in this press release. |