Please join us to welcome Tricia Hersey, the Fall 2023 Artist-Scholar in Residence at the Center for Black Visual Culture. The evening will hold readings and remarks from the CBVC team, CBVC partners, and Tricia Hersey.  Tricia Hersey has over 20 years of experience as a multidisciplinary artist, writer, theologian and community organizer. She is a Chicago native who has called Atlanta home for 13 years. Tricia is the founder of The Nap Ministry, the originator of the ‘rest as resistance’ and ‘rest as reparations’ frameworks, and creates sacred spaces where the liberatory, restorative, and disruptive power of rest can take hold. The Nap Ministry is an organization that examines rest as a form of resistance and reparations by curating spaces for the community to rest via community rest activations, immersive workshops, performance art installations, and social media. Tricia’s work is seeded within the soils of Black radical thought, somatics, Afrofuturism, womanism,...

Rendering black, queer, and elder populations visible – a lecture by Nadege Green, Distinguished Writer/Community Activist-in-Residence, Fall 2022 Location: 20 Cooper Square, Second Floor New York, NY 10003 Register for Event - Click Here CBVC Distinguished Writer/Community Activist-in-Residence, Nadege Green’s work centers the lived experiences of Black people in South Florida and is deeply rooted in history and first-person narratives. Her work aligns strongly with CBVC’s continued support of cultural and artistic missions that center restorative justice and healing for black people across the diaspora.  Green will present her research for her emerging history and storytelling platform Black Miami-Dade, which uses a combination of ethnographic interviews and archival practices to herald the rich, and often ignored, history of Black Miami, especially rendering the lives of Miami’s Black queer populations visible in an upcoming exhibit in 2023. Reclaiming archives and insisting that Black narratives are visible and not erased is critical to CBVC/IAAA’s ongoing mission...

A double book talk + signing Location: WNYC's The GreeneSpace 44 Charlton Street New York, NY 10014 Register for Event - Click Here In concert with WNYC’s The Greene Space and in celebration of the books’ release, the Center for Black Visual Culture (CBVC) at the Institute of African American Affairs at NYU presents Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party and In a Time of Panthers: Early Photographs, a book talk and signing featuring former Black Panther Party member Ericka Huggins and Regina Jennings, and photographers Stephen Shames and Jeffrey Henson Scales. The talk will be moderated by CBVC Director, University Professor, and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Dr. Deborah Willis. Few photographers had the insider access Oakland native Jeffrey Henson Scales did around the Black Panther Party in the late 1960s. Capturing rare and intimate portraits of the movement’s leaders...