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SUMMARY:Dejha Carrington Artist-Scholar in Residence Welcome Reception
DESCRIPTION:Dejha Carrington Artist-Scholar in Residence Welcome Reception\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin the Center for Black Visual Culture as we welcome Dejha Carrington\, CBVC’s 2026–27 Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence\, for a celebratory reception marking the start of her fellowship. Carrington is an arts leader and co-founder of Commissioner\, a collaborative model and social practice that brings locals together to support contemporary artists and collect art in their cities. Come welcome Dejha to CBVC as she begins a residency dedicated to storytelling\, process\, and meaning-making in the arts. \nDejha Carrington is an arts leader and cultural practitioner. In 2017\, she cofounded Commissioner\, an innovative membership model and social practice that brings locals together to support contemporary artists and collect art in their cities. As Executive Director\, she has cultivated an inclusive community that has collectively funded over 50 curated artist commissions in Miami\, Detroit\, Montreal\, and Mexico City\, with plans for national expansion through 2030. Through programs that offer transformative access\, knowledge\, travel\, and economic tools\, Carrington is creating systems that inspire people to creatively engage with the world around them and live with art as a form of cultural memory at home. \nCarrington is also an active board member of MAP Fund in New York\, The Black School in New Orleans\, and the Community Justice Project in Miami\, and a Professional Advisory Member of Miami-Dade Art in Public Places. In 2025\, she was awarded the Creative Futures Fellowship at the University of Miami’s Center for Global Black Studies\, where she organized the exhibition Strange Celestial Road by Alexandra Fields O’Neale on view through May 2027. Additionally\, Carrington is the 2026-2027 Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at New York University’s Center for Black Visual Culture. She teaches The Business of Art\, an undergraduate course at the New World School of the Arts at Miami-Dade College. \nRSVP \nDates:  September 16\, 2026 \nTime:  6:00 – 8:00 pm \nLocation: 20 Cooper Square 3rd Floor Lobby\, New York\, NY\, 10003 \n 
URL:https://cbvc.nyu.edu/events/dejha-carrington-artist-scholar-in-residence-welcome-reception
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, 20 Cooper Square\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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SUMMARY:Caught in the Act: Desire\, Womanhood\, and the “Good Woman” in Nollywood
DESCRIPTION:Caught in the Act: Desire\, Womanhood\, and the “Good Woman” in Nollywood\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgrammed by Gallatin MA Candidate Eliel Peterson\, join NYU’s Center for Black Visual Culture for a screening of the 2008 Nollywood film Caught in the Act\, directed by Charles Inojie and co-presented by Nolly Babes. The film follows separated twin sisters\, played by Genevieve Nnaji\, whose lives collide as one sister deals with an abusive mother-in-law\, and the other\, a life of crime. \nThe screening will be followed by a conversation featuring Venessa Appiah\, Jediael Peterson\, and Baaba Annan\, current doctoral scholars whose work engages questions of gender\, identity\, and visual culture. Together\, the panelists will consider how Nollywood has represented women’s desire and agency\, the cultural expectations attached to the figure of the “good woman\,” and the ways African filmmakers use popular cinema to negotiate\, and challenge\, ideas of respectability\, womanhood\, and gendered life across African contexts. \nThe evening will open with remarks by Nolly Babes \nAfi Venessa Appiah is a theorist\, editor\, and publisher specializing in African Studies\, Film Studies\, and Visual Culture. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Cinema Studies at NYU Tisch and holds a Master of Arts in Film Studies with a specialization in African Studies\, as well as a double Bachelor of Arts in both disciplines. Her contemplative approach seeks objective significance in the realms of the intangible\, the complex\, and the taboo. \nEliel Peterson is a writer\, curator\, and community arts organizer based in Brooklyn\, New York. She is currently a master’s candidate at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study\, concentrating in Black visual culture with a specific focus on African cinema. Eliel’s primary research investigates visual language emerging from continental Africa and its diasporas\, exploring how cinema circulates culture and how identities are constructed and thus performed through visual language. As a freelance film critic\, her writing has been published in Africa Is a Country and Document Journal. Eliel is the founder of The Eye Level Project\, a free arts initiative for NYC youth that engages young artists of color in photography as a tool for personal\, political\, and social memory. \nEwuraba (Baaba) was born and raised in New York City with a family from Ghana\, West Africa. As a second-generation American\, she values education\, community\, social justice\, and activism. Baaba takes pride in her work being collaborative\, impactful\, and fulfilling. Baaba is a PhD student in Sociology at Stony Brook University. Her educational background is in Human Rights and Development with graduate and undergraduate degrees from Binghamton University. Baaba combines her passion for accessible education and youth in her professional work\, from substitute teaching to higher education admissions counseling\, and other forms of youth advocacy and development. In addition to education\, Baaba has strong interest in sustainability and her primary research focus is what liberation looks like across the African diaspora.  \nJediael Peterson is a history doctoral candidate at Stonybrook University\, where she studies oil pollution and ethnic minority protest in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. She was recently named a 2026-2027 ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Innovation Fellow\, which will support the completion of her dissertation project\, tentatively titled “The Rivers Are Dying: Naked Protest and Ecological Alienation in the Niger Delta.” Her research examines how women\, particularly elderly women in the region\, respond to environmental degradation and extractive economies. She also works as a historical consultant at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) for an upcoming exhibition and serves as a program coordinator for The Eye Level project\, a Brooklyn based arts nonprofit servicing NYC teenagers. \n\nRSVP \nDates:  September 23\, 2026 \nTime:  6:00 – 8:30 pm \nLocation: 20 Cooper Square 3rd Floor Lobby\, New York\, NY\, 10003 \n 
URL:https://cbvc.nyu.edu/events/caught-in-the-act-desire-womanhood-and-the-good-woman-in-nollywood
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, 20 Cooper Square\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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SUMMARY:Black Portraiture[s]: The Black Built Environment
DESCRIPTION:Black Portraiture[s]: Los Angeles The Black Built Environment\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBlack Portraiture[s]: Los Angeles: The Black Built Environment will examine the historicity and rich panoply encompassing the Black built environment\, both physical and imagined. Exploring the concept and its relationship to photography\, architecture\, urban planning\, and visual culture\, artists have reconceived and reconstructed visions of our built environment while exploring themes conversant with the spiritual and ritualistic continuities of the African diaspora. Moreover\, this convening will explore the artistic contributions to forms of memory\, visual legacies of Black townships\, and the charges of conceived spaces therein. The conference will present and encourage research and scholarship on continuities between modern and contemporary visual and structural approaches\, centering the audacity of Black-built environments from within the Diaspora’s politics\, architecture\, art\, film\, music\, migrations\, and global iterations. For registration questions\, contact aaahi-events@getty.edu.Co-Hosted by New York University\, Getty\, and UCLA \nBlack Portraiture[s] will be offering a hybrid option for those who cannot attend in person. \nRSVP \nDates:  September 28 – 30\, 2026 \nTime:   \nLocations:  \n 
URL:https://cbvc.nyu.edu/events/black-portraitures-the-black-built-environment
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