Your Day & Your World
Co-curated by Andrew Wang and Janelle Rebel
January 21 through February 21, 2020
The lives of minorities are all too often characterized by their marginalization, causing those at the fringes of mainstream society to be perpetually identified through victimhood. Consequently, these individuals are dehumanized, and their agency further minimized.
This exhibition presents select print materials by artists interested in challenging the grossly simplified identities and narratives that have been imposed on them. In these works, they recenter their own experiences. They explore what it means to inhabit their bodies and to belong on the periphery.
These works challenge viewers to suspend their own assumptions in order to provide a platform for the misrepresented, the invisible, and the non-conforming. They reinscribe public knowledge through anecdote, satire, poetry, autoethnography, and critique. Through their work, they invite us into their worlds.
Printed matter by Eloisa Aquino, Tia Blassingame, Ben Blount, Sky Cubacub, KaKeART, Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., Glenn Ligon, Patricia Nguyen, Laurence Rasti, Tomoko Sawada, Clarissa T. Sligh, Mark Addison Smith, Jennifer White-Johnson & Kevin T. Johnson Jr.
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The Artistic World of Colette: Paris 1900-1930
February 28 through April 10, 2020
Art Walk: Friday, February 28, 5:00-8:00 p.m.
Opening & Reception: Thursday, March 5, 4:00-7:00 p.m., with opening remarks at 6:00 p.m.In collaboration with New College of Florida and the Mellon-funded Colette Project Sarasota, the Brizdle-Schoenberg Special Collections Center's exhibit invites you to discover the literary and artistic world of Colette’s Paris--an exceptionally creative cross-section of persons, personalities, and art forms.Janelle Rebel, Digital Curation and Special Collections Librarian at Ringling College, and Élyane Dezon-Jones, Professor Emerita at Washington University in St. Louis will give their opening remarks about the exhibit on March 5 at 6:00 p.m.Provocative and prolific, the French writer Colette (1873-1954) was a novelist, journalist, and actress, a liberated woman in a changing France. On the centennial of her 1920 novel Chéri, The Colette Project Sarasota is a celebration of Colette’s love of literature and music, cats and dogs, food and flowers.