Leslie Barlow, Mists, from Other/Identities Series, charcoal and gesso on paper, 2015
- Thursday, February 15, 2018
- 6:30pm – 8:00pm
- Duke of Kent Legion, 227 McDermot Avenue
Exhibitions such as Dirty Knees and MIXED Art Conference have been bringing together artists of mixed-race to explore the complexities of nurturing positive mixed identities. This conversation aims to create space to discuss and uplift the strengths of personal nuance, while avoiding reductive stratification and fetishization.
Reading: drmariaroot.com/doc/BillOfRights.pdf
Exhibits: Dirty Knees: juxtapoz.com/news/illustration/mixed-race-artists-explore-half-asian-identities-in-dirty-knees/
Free, everyone welcome!
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Jaz Papadopoulos is an interdisciplinary artist who works in experimental poetry, installation, video and performance. They are interested in diaspora, gender, bodies, place, memory, grief and ritual, and are a current recipient of the New Artist in Media Art Production Fund at Video Pool. Papadopoulos lives in Treaty 1 territory.