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SUMMARY:Home: Reimagining Interiority – YoungArts’ exhibition opening reception and panel
DESCRIPTION:Location: Riese Lounge at Tisch Gallery  721 Broadway\, Ground Floor\, NYC with livestream option \n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for Event – Click Here \n\n\n\nIn concert with YoungArts and in celebration of the exhibition\, Home: Reimagining Interiority (on view until December 19\, 2022 at the Tisch Gallery\, New York\, NY)\, we are pleased to present a reception and panel featuring artists and curators from the exhibition as they interrogate the very concept of home as an interior space of refuge and repose. The exhibit features photographic and text-based work by 20 cross-generational and interdisciplinary artists as they draw the viewer in to show the intimate and personal impact of larger social and political events that we are only beginning to understand. In what significant ways do these Black visual narratives respond to the dynamic cultural\, political\, social\, and economic and intimate changes that have forced us to (re)interrogate previous conceptions of Blackness and home? What happens to the very notion of home as a space of refuge and repose when the lines between public and private space become blurred? \n\n\n\nCosponsored by the Department of Photography & Imaging\, NYU Tisch School of the Arts. \n\n\n\nSpace is limited for the in-person event. RSVP is required. You may RSVP for in-person or virtual attendance by clicking on the following link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/home-reimagining-interiority-young-arts-exhibition-reception-and-panel-tickets-419025615897 \n\n\n\nWATCH THE LIVE STREAM OF THE EVENT \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nCOVID-19 PROTOCOLS \n\n\n\nALL NYU visitors are REQUIRED to be up to date on their vaccinations: anyone who has completed their primary vaccinations AND received their booster vaccination; OR anyone who completed their primary vaccination more than 14 days ago\, but is not yet eligible to receive their booster vaccination. NYU is currently accepting FDA-authorized and WHO-listed vaccines. \n\n\n\nTest results ARE NOT accepted as an alternative to proof of vaccination and WILL NOT be accepted at the door. \n\n\n\nNo medical or religious exemptions will be considered at the door. \n\n\n\nALL visitors must present a government-issued photo ID. \n\n\n\nAcceptable forms of Vaccination documentation listed below – documents MUST be in English and include: Name\, birth date\, vaccine name or manufacturer\, dates of doses. \n\n\n\n\nCDC vaccination Card\n\n\n\nExcelsior Pass PLUS (no Excelsior Pass)\n\n\n\nOfficial Documentation from a city or government registry\, public health authority\, healthcare provider.\n\n\n\n\nPeople who do not meet these requirements WILL be turned away at the door. \n\n\n\nBecause of limited venue capacity\, RSVP and advance registration is required. As the event is open to NYU students freely\, kindly note that RSVP does not guarantee entry. \n\n\n\nVirtual attendees will receive live stream information via the email used to register closer to the event date. Please be sure you select the “Virtual” ticket option. \n\n\n\nPANEL ARTISTS \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nPHYLICIA GHEE \n\n\n\nPhylicia Ghee(c) Alona Shavi Cabrera\n\n\n\nPhylicia Ghee is an interdisciplinary visual artist\, photographer and curator. Ghee’s artwork documents transition\, explores healing\, ritual\, ceremony & personal rites-of-passage. She is interested in the intersection between the physical and the spiritual. Taught by her Grandfather at an early age; Ghee works in photography\, performance\, video\, fibers\, mixed media\, installation & painting. She earned her BFA in Photography with a Concentration in Curatorial Studies from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2010.  \n\n\n\nGhee has exhibited work at The Baltimore Museum of Art\, Galerie Myrtis\, The Egyptian Embassy\, Art on the Vine (Martha’s Vineyard)\, Young Collectors Contemporary (Memphis\, TN)\, The African American Museum (Philadelphia\, PA)\, and more. She is the recipient of numerous awards including being named 2020 Baker Artist Award Finalist\, 2020 Pratt>FORWARD Fellow (Mickalene Thomas & Jane South) and 2020 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize Finalist. She received recognition from Maryland’s First Lady Yumi Hogan & the Maryland Behavioral Health Administration for her art and activism in raising awareness on issues surrounding mental health\, behavioral health and substance use disorder.  \n\n\n\nGhee worked as a professional photographer for over 15 years. She just finished a 4-month contract working as the Official Photographer for the U.S. Capitol\, House of Representatives. Ghee is the first Black Woman in American history to ever hold this position. \n\n\n\nCarlos Hernandez \n\n\n\nCarlos Hernandez\n\n\n\nCarlos Hernandez (b. 2001\, La Vega\, Dominican Republic) is a Dominican-American artist\, curator\, photo-editor and organizer based in the New York Metropolitan area. He began working in lens-based media at the age of 15\, starting with timed media and later developing a love for stills and multimedia work. In 2020 he founded Arte Pa Mi Gente\, an initiative focused on intersectional queer liberation through arts activism. The work of their artistic practice currently focuses on notions of identity within representation for the uplifting of Black\, Brown\, and Queer voices through conceptual explorations of oppressive histories. Most recently\, they curated ‘“To/From the Motherland(s)\,” a group exhibition at the ESPERANZA Project Space. Their art and writing has been published in publications such as WhiteWaller Magazine\, Art and Type Mag\, BlackSwan Magazine\, and ISO Magazine. Hernandez has exhibited across the US at the Montclair Art Museum\, Sotheby’s Auction House\, and the National YoungArts Foundation Gallery. He is a Hispanic Scholarship Fund & Gilman International Scholar\, as well as a 2019 Gordon Parks Scholar & YoungArts Winner in Photography. Hernandez is currently pursuing a BFA in Photography & Imaging at NYU Tisch with a double major in Social & Cultural Analysis. \n\n\n\nAva Tiye Kinsey \n\n\n\nAva Tiye Kinsey\n\n\n\nAva Tiye Kinsey is a daughter of Dallas\, Texas. Her family was instrumental in championing the struggle for Civil Rights and Black Power in Texas and other Southwestern states. Her heritage\, no doubt\, informs her activism and artistry. Portions of her Master’s Thesis was published in Judson Jeffries’\, The Black Panther Party in a City Near You. \n\n\n\nHer life’s work has been to infuse artistic practice with an understanding of Social and Restorative Justice practices. She credits her time as Co-Director of the DreamYard Art Center in the Bronx as helping to shape her pedagogical and community-centered point of view. \n\n\n\nAva received a Bachelor and Master of Arts in Africana Studies from Howard University and Temple University\, respectively. \n\n\n\nIn August of 2018\, Ava began a new appointment as the Associate Director of Education at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. There\, she streamlines and refines curriculum through BAM’s Education Department’s mission framework: Vision\, Voice\, and Power. This framework centers young people\, teaching artists\, and artists of color in the intentional artistry happening in the classroom. \n\n\n\nCurrently\, Ava Tiye is creating an animated children’s series that is an ode to Bed-Stuy and the African Diasporan communities that defined the iconic Brooklyn neighborhood. \n\n\n\nCOVID-19 PROTOCOLS \n\n\n\nALL visitors to NYU-sponsored event are REQUIRED to be up to date on their vaccinations: anyone who has completed their primary vaccinations AND received their booster vaccination; OR anyone who completed their primary vaccination more than 14 days ago\, but is not yet eligible to receive their booster vaccination. NYU is currently accepting FDA-authorized and WHO-listed vaccines. \n\n\n\nTest results ARE NOT accepted as an alternative to proof of vaccination and WILL NOT be accepted at the door. \n\n\n\nNo medical or religious exemptions will be considered at the door. \n\n\n\nALL visitors must present a government-issued photo ID. \n\n\n\nAcceptable forms of Vaccination documentation listed below – documents MUST be in English and include: Name\, birth date\, vaccine name or manufacturer\, dates of doses. \n\n\n\n\nCDC vaccination Card\n\n\n\nExcelsior Pass PLUS (no Excelsior Pass)\n\n\n\nOfficial Documentation from a city or government registry\, public health authority\, healthcare provider.\n\n\n\n\nPeople who do not meet these requirements WILL be turned away at the door. \n\n\n\nVirtual attendees will receive live stream information via the email used to register a few hours before the start of the event. Please be sure you select the “Virtual” ticket option.
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SUMMARY:Between the Lines: Rest is Resistance by Tricia Hersey
DESCRIPTION:Location: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 515 Malcolm X Blvd New York\, NY 10030 \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nConversation with The Nap Ministry’s Tricia Hersey\, author of Rest is Resistance\, and Dr. Joan Morgan \n\n\n\nWhat would it be like to live in a well-rested world? is a question Tricia Hersey\, founder of the Nap Ministry\, confronts in her debut publication Rest as Resistance: A Manifesto. \n\n\n\nJoin us as Tricia Hersey invites readers to reimagine the foundations for liberation\, healing\, and justice. Rest as Resistance “casts an illuminating light on our troubled relationship with rest and how to imagine and dream our way to a future where rest is exalted.” Hersey will be joined by Dr. Joan Morgan\, Program Director of the Center for Black Visual Culture (CBVC) at New York University. This fall the CBVC\, inspired by Hersey’s liberatory framework of “rest is resistance\,” will launch The Black Rest Project (BRP) to amplify visual narratives of Black rest and leisure. Dr. Karinn Glover will open the program with a meditation. \n\n\n\nSigned copies of Rest is Resistance by Tricia Hersey\, will be available for purchase from The Schomburg Shop in Harlem. \n\n\n\nFREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. As a courtesy to our participants we ask that you plan to wear your mask for the duration of the program while inside the Langston Hughes Auditorium. \n\n\n\nThis event is presented in partnership with the Center for Black Visual Culture (CBVC) at New York University. \n\n\n\nThe program will also be live streamed to our YouTube channel. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPARTICIPANTS\n\n\n\nTRICIA HERSEY is a Chicago native who has called Georgia home for the last 12 years. She has over 20 years of experience as a multidisciplinary artist\, writer\, theologian and community organizer. She is the founder of The Nap Ministry\, 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. Her research interests include Black liberation theology\, womanism\, somatics\, and cultural trauma. She is the author of the upcoming book Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto which will be published in October 2022. You can learn more about her work and the book at thenapministry.com \n\n\n\nDR. JOAN MORGAN is the Program Director of the Center for Black Visual Culture at New York University. She is an award-winning cultural critic\, feminist author\, Grammy nominated songwriter and a pioneering hip-hop journalist. Morgan coined the term “hip-hop feminism” in 1999\, when she published the groundbreaking book\, When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks it Down which is taught at universities globally. Regarded internationally as an expert on the topics of hip-hop\, race and gender\, Morgan has made numerous television\, radio and film appearances — among them HBOMax\, Netflix\, Lifetime\, MTV\, BET\, VH-1\, CNN\, WBAI’s The Spin and MSNBC. She has written for numerous publications including Vibe\, Essence\, Ms.\, The New York Times\, and British Vogue. \n\n\n\nDR. KARINN GLOVER is a board-certified physician specializing in psychiatry and mind-body health. With a background in marketing and communications gained from working in corporate environments and in print media\, Dr. Glover has the lived experience of a person of color in the corporate setting. Over the course of her decade-long career in medicine\, she has developed and consulted on wellness programming for employees of color and worked with leadership to address workplace mental health efforts for professionals of all backgrounds. Dr. Glover is committed to teaching mindful change from the inside and improving life for the underserved. \n\n\n\nGET THE BOOK\n\n\n\nReaders who wish to purchase signed copies of Rest is Resistance by Tricia Hersey\, can do so online or in-person from The Schomburg Shop in Harlem (while supplies last). All proceeds benefit The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. \n\n\n\nDisrupt and push back against capitalism and white supremacy. In this book\, Tricia Hersey\, aka The Nap Bishop\, encourages us to connect to the liberating power of rest\, daydreaming\, and naps as a foundation for healing and justice. \n\n\n\nWhat would it be like to live in a well-rested world? Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitalism\, we subject our bodies and minds to work at an unrealistic\, damaging\, and machine‑level pace –– feeding into the same engine that enslaved millions into brutal labor for its own relentless benefit. \n\n\n\nIn Rest Is Resistance\, Tricia Hersey\, aka the Nap Bishop\, casts an illuminating light on our troubled relationship with rest and how to imagine and dream our way to a future where rest is exalted. Our worth does not reside in how much we produce\, especially not for a system that exploits and dehumanizes us. Rest\, in its simplest form\, becomes an act of resistance and a reclaiming of power because it asserts our most basic humanity. We are enough. The systems cannot have us. \n\n\n\nThis book is rooted in spiritual energy and centered in Black liberation\, womanism\, somatics\, and Afrofuturism. With captivating storytelling and practical advice\, all delivered in Hersey’s lyrical voice and informed by her deep experience in theology\, activism\, and performance art\, Rest Is Resistance is a call to action and manifesto for those who are sleep deprived\, searching for justice\, and longing to be liberated from the oppressive grip of Grind Culture. \n\n\n\n_______________________ \n\n\n\n#SchomburgLive \n\n\n\nPUBLIC NOTICE AND DISCLAIMER\n\n\n\nIN-PERSON | By registering for this event\, you are acknowledging that an inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 exists in any public place where people are present. By attending an in-person program at The New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture\, you voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to COVID-19 and agree not to hold The New York Public Library\, its Trustees\, officers\, agent and employees liable for any illness or injury. If you have symptoms consistent with COVID-19 or suspect you have been in close contact with someone who has tested positive\, please stay home. \n\n\n\nVIRTUAL | This Program uses a third-party website link. By clicking on the third-party website link\, you will leave NYPL’s website and enter a website not operated by NYPL. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of every third-party website or service that you visit or use\, including those third parties with whom you interact with through our Library services. For more information about these third-party links\, please see the section of NYPL’s Privacy Policy describing “Third-Party Library Services Providers” at https://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl/legal-notices/privacy-policy. During this Program\, you will be using third-party platforms such as livestream.com/schomburgcenter\, for the purpose of communication. This service may collect some personally identifying information about you\, such as name\, username\, email address\, & password. This service will treat the information it collects about you pursuant to its own privacy policy. \n\n\n\nFIRST COME\, FIRST SEATED Events are free and open to all\, but due to space constraints registration is requested.  Registered guests are given priority check-in 15 to 30 minutes before start time. After the event starts all registered seats are released regardless of registration\, so we recommend that you arrive early. \n\n\n\nGUESTS Please note that holding seats in the Langston Hughes Auditorium is strictly prohibited and there is no food or drinks allowed anywhere in the Schomburg Center. \n\n\n\nAUDIO/VIDEO RECORDING Programs are photographed and recorded by the Schomburg Center. Attending this event indicates your consent to being filmed/photographed and your consent to the use of your recorded image for any all purposes of the New York Public Library. \n\n\n\nPRESS Please send all press inquiries (photo\, video\, interviews\, audio-recording\, etc) at least 24-hours before the day of the program to Leah Drayton at leahdrayton@nypl.org. \n\n\n\nPlease note that professional video recordings are prohibited without expressed consent.
URL:https://cbvc.nyu.edu/events/between-the-lines-rest-is-resistance-by-tricia-hersey
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SUMMARY:The Black Rest Project presents EMOTIONAL JUSTICE: A Roadmap for Racial Healing
DESCRIPTION:A book talk with author and CEO of the Armah Institute for Emotional Justice\, Esther Armah + Dramatized reading\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation: Kimmel Center\, Room 405/406 at 60 Washington Square South\, NYC\, with livestream option for virtual attendees \n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for Event – Click Here \n\n\n\nAmid a global racial reckoning\, Esther Armah’s book\, Emotional Justice: A Roadmap for Racial Healing\, offers a much-needed language for racial healing and repair. Armah is the creator of Emotional Justice\, a framework for racial healing shaped by her time as a journalist in South Africa\, Ghana\, London and New York. In her new book\, Armah explains our historical racial healing model centers whiteness and therefore cannot serve our humanity. Armah introduces a new model that identifies our emotional work and requires we unlearn and dismantle the language of whiteness. Armah explains\, dismantling the language of whiteness requires different work from different people. The book looks at key terms—Intimate Reckoning\, Intimate Revolution\, Resistance Negotiation\, and Revolutionary Black Grace—that enable people to challenge white supremacy. Intimate Reckoning shows white women how they can examine their role in sustaining white supremacy\, while Intimate Revolution teaches Black women to unlearn the language of whiteness that teaches them their sole value is labor. \n\n\n\nThis event is part of CBVC’s three-year initiative\, The Black Rest Project (BRP). For the next three years\, CBVC commits to making Black rest visible by asking\, what does Black rest look like? And what will it take to get there? \n\n\n\nCosponsored by the Department of Photography & Imaging\, NYU Tisch School of the Arts; NYU Office of Global Inclusion\, Diversity\, and Strategic Innovation; and the NYU Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. \n\n\n\nSpace is limited for the in-person event. RSVP is required. You may RSVP for in-person or virtual attendance by clicking on the following link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/emotional-justice-a-roadmap-for-racial-healing-book-talk-w-author-e-armah-tickets-428357909037 \n\n\n\nWATCH THE LIVESTREAM OF THE EVENT BELOW  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nESTHER A. ARMAH \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEsther A. Armah is CEO\, The Armah Institute of Emotional Justice (The AIEJ)\, a global institute working across Accra\, New York\, and London. Emotional Justice is a visionary roadmap for racial healing. The AIEJ devises\, develops\, designs and delivers Projects\, Training and Thought Leadership\, and engages storytelling as a strategy for structural change. Esther is an international award-winning journalist\, a playwright\, an international speaker\, and an author. As a journalist she has worked in London\, New York\, Chicago\, Washington DC\, Ghana\, Nigeria\, Kenya and South Africa. She was the Spring 2022 Distinguished Activist in Residence at NYU’s CBVC. Her Emotional Justice essays are featured in the New York Times best-selling book Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America; the award-winning Love with Accountability and Charlston Syllabus. She has written five Emotional Justice plays that have been produced and performed in New York\, Chicago and Ghana. \n\n\n\nFor her Emotional Justice work\, she won the ‘Community Healer Award’ at the 2016 Valuing Black Lives Global Emotional Emancipation Summit in Washington DC. Esther was named ‘Most Valuable NY Radio Host’ in The Nation’s 2012 Progressive Honors List for her work on Wake-Up Call on Pacifica’s\, WBAI.And she was named one of ‘Africa’s Women Leaders’ in the 2019 World Women Leadership Congress Awards by CMO Asia and the Africa Leadership Academy. \n\n\n\nCOVID-19 PROTOCOLS \n\n\n\nALL NYU visitors are REQUIRED to be up to date on their vaccinations: anyone who has completed their primary vaccinations AND received their booster vaccination; OR anyone who completed their primary vaccination more than 14 days ago\, but is not yet eligible to receive their booster vaccination. NYU is currently accepting FDA-authorized and WHO-listed vaccines. \n\n\n\nTest results ARE NOT accepted as an alternative to proof of vaccination and WILL NOT be accepted at the door. \n\n\n\nNo medical or religious exemptions will be considered at the door. \n\n\n\nALL visitors must present a government-issued photo ID. \n\n\n\nAcceptable forms of Vaccination documentation listed below – documents MUST be in English and include: Name\, birth date\, vaccine name or manufacturer\, dates of doses. \n\n\n\n\nCDC vaccination Card\n\n\n\nExcelsior Pass PLUS (no Excelsior Pass)\n\n\n\nOfficial Documentation from a city or government registry\, public health authority\, healthcare provider.\n\n\n\n\nPeople who do not meet these requirements WILL be turned away at the door. \n\n\n\nBecause of limited venue capacity\, RSVP and advance registration is required. As the event is open to NYU students freely\, kindly note that RSVP does not guarantee entry. \n\n\n\nVirtual attendees will receive live stream information via the email used to register a few hours before the start of the event. Please be sure you select the “Virtual” ticket option.
URL:https://cbvc.nyu.edu/events/the-black-rest-project-presents-emotional-justice-a-roadmap-for-racial-healing
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SUMMARY:Comrade Sisters | In a Time of Panthers
DESCRIPTION:A double book talk + signing\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation: WNYC’s The GreeneSpace  44 Charlton Street New York\, NY 10014 \n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for Event – Click Here \n\n\n\nIn 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. \n\n\n\nFew 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 in action and in repose\, In a Time of Panthers: Early Photographs explores Scales’ newly discovered\, rich archive and is more urgent than ever in context of today’s ongoing struggle for racial justice. The book includes a foreword by CBVC Director\, University Professor\, and Chair\, Department of Photography & Imaging at Tisch School of the Arts\, Dr. Deborah Willis\, and an essay by Dr. Waldo E. Martin Jr.\, Professor of History at the University of California\, Berkeley. \n\n\n\nA long time coming\, Ericka Huggins’ and Stephen Shames’ Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party highlights the little-known story of the backbone of the Black Panther Party: the women. It’s estimated that six out of ten Panther Party members were women. While these remarkable women of all ages and diverse backgrounds were regularly making headlines agitating\, protesting\, and organizing\, off-stage these same women were building communities and enacting social justice\, providing food\, housing\, education\, healthcare\, and more. Comrade Sisters is their story; the book combines photos by celebrated Panther Party photographer\, Stephen Shames\, with moving text by early Party member and leader\, Ericka Huggins. Most importantly\, the book includes contributions from over fifty former women members – some well-known\, others not – who vividly recall their personal experiences from that time. Other texts include a foreword by Angela Davis and an afterword by Alicia Garza. \n\n\n\nHuggins\, Shames\, and Scales will be joined by original member of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense\, poet\, author\, and university professor\, Regina Jennings. \n\n\n\nIn the age of George Floyd and Black Lives Matter\, the issues and solutions raised in these powerful books are as relevant today as when the Black Panther Party was founded in Oakland\, California on October 15\, 1966. \n\n\n\nPresented by WNYC’s The Greene Space and the Center for Black Visual Culture at the Institute of African American Affairs\, and cosponsored by the Department of Photography & Imaging\, NYU Tisch School of the Arts; NYU’s 370J Project; NYU Center for Media\, Culture\, and History; NYU Office of Global Inclusion\, Diversity\, and Strategic Innovation; and the NYU Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. \n\n\n\nSpace is limited for the in-person event. RSVP is required. You may RSVP for in-person or virtual attendance by clicking on the following link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/comrade-sisters-in-a-time-of-panthers-a-double-book-talk-signing-tickets-432147634207 \n\n\n\nWATCH THE LIVESTREAM OF THE EVENT BELOW (note: program starts at 15:35min mark) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJEFFREY HENSON SCALES \n\n\n\n(c) Chad Batka\n\n\n\nJeffrey Henson Scales is an independent photographer and photography editor at The New York Times.When he was 13 years old\, Henson Scales began making photographs of the Oakland Black Panthers. These photographs – of leaders like Stokely Carmichael\, Bobby Seale\, Huey Newton\, Eldridge & Kathleen Cleaver and other political activists of the 1960’s – were regularly published in The Black Panther Paper from 1968 to 1971. At the age of 14\, Mr. Scales’ work first appeared in a mainstream national news publication\, Time magazine. He later became a successful editorial photographer\, while also working in the entertainment industry on record covers\, film posters and publicity campaigns.Henson Scales photographs have been exhibited at museums throughout the United States and Europe and have appeared in numerous photography magazines\, books and anthologies\, as well as in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art\, Museum of Fine Arts Houston\, The City Museum of New York\, The George Eastman House and The Baltimore Museum of Art.He is the principal partner of the Harlem-based photographic enterprise\, Henson Scales Productions\, which includes the photo archive\, HSP Archive. Some of his archival images can be seen and read about on his “Time Variants” Tumblr site\, where he also tells some of the stories behind the photographs.He is currently working on a visual memoir project called\, “The Archive Project.” \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nERICKA HUGGINS \n\n\n\n(c) Lisbet Tellefsen\n\n\n\nEricka Huggins is an educator\, Black Panther Party member\, former political prisoner\, human rights advocate\, and poet.  \n\n\n\nFor 50 years\, Ericka has used her life experiences in service to community. From 1973-1981\, she was director of the Black Panther Party’s Oakland Community School. From 1990-2004\, Ericka managed HIV/AIDS Volunteer and Education programs. She also supported innovative mindfulness programs for women and youth in schools\, jails and prisons.  \n\n\n\nEricka was Professor of Sociology and African American Studies from 2008 through 2015 in the Peralta Community College District. From 2003 to 2011\, she was Professor of Women and Gender Studies at California State Universities- East Bay and San Francisco.  \n\n\n\nEricka is a Racial Equity Learning Lab facilitator for WORLD TRUST Educational Services. She curates conversations focused on the individual and collective work of becoming equitable in all areas of our daily lives. Additionally\, she facilitates workshops on the benefit of self care in sustaining social change. \n\n\n\nREGINA JENNINGS  \n\n\n\n(c) Regina Jennings\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nRegina Jennings is an original member of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense\, poet\, author\, and university professor.  She has authored at least 25 academic articles and has written six books\, her latest\, Poetry and the Black Panther Party: from Ancestral Memory\, Morphogenetic Fields to Hip Hop and Panther Poems; Poetry of a Sister Panther.  Her book Malcolm X and the Poetics of Haki Madhubuti (McFarland\, 2006) won an international book award.  Currently she is writing a poetry book with brief essays tentatively titled\, Killers and Cutthroats: Blacks Fighting Back in Race Defense. \n\n\n\nSTEPHEN SHAMES \n\n\n\n(c) Heidi Gutman\n\n\n\nStephen Shames uses photography to raise awareness of social issues\, with a particular focus on child poverty and race.  \n\n\n\nSteve’s photographs are in the permanent collections of 40 major museums\, including: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA); Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery; Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture; Dolph Briscoe Center for American History\, University of Texas\, Austin; Metropolitan Museum; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; George Eastman Museum; Philadelphia Museum of Art; and Foundation Sindika Dokolo\, Angola. \n\n\n\nSteve is author of 15 monographs including: Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers (Abrams\, 2016); Bronx Boys (University of Texas); Outside the Dream\, Pursuing the Dream\, The Black Panthers (Aperture); Stephen Shames: Une Retrospective (Maison de la Photographie Robert Doisneu de Gentilly | Red Eye); Bronx Boys (FotoEvidence e-book); Free Angela\, We Are America\, I Like You Too\, Some People (Quiddity\, 2021); Facing Race (Moravian College); Transforming Lives (Star Bright Books); and Free to Grow (Columbia University). \n\n\n\nHe received numerous awards including the Kodak Crystal Eagle Award for Impact in Photojournalism for Outside the Dream. American Photo named Steve one of the 15 Most Underrated Photographers. PBS named Hine\, Wolcott\, and Shames as photographers whose work promotes social change. \n\n\n\nSteve is represented as an art photographer by Galerie Esther Woerdehoff\, Paris and Steven Kasher Gallery\, New York; and as a photojournalist by Polaris Images\, New York. \n\n\n\nDEBORAH WILLIS \n\n\n\n(c) Alice Proujansky\n\n\n\nDeborah Willis\, Ph.D\, is University Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU and has affiliated appointments with the College of Arts and Sciences\, Department of Social & Cultural and the Institute of Fine Arts where she teaches courses on Photography & Imaging\, iconicity\, and cultural histories visualizing the black body\, women\, and gender. She is also the director of NYU’s Center for Black Visual Culture/Institute for African American Affairs.  \n\n\n\nShe is the recipient of many fellowships and awards\, including\, but not limited to: the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship and Richard D. Cohen Fellowship in African and African American Art\, Hutchins Center\, Harvard University. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and received awards from the College Art Association for Writing Art History (2021) and  the Outstanding Service Award from the Royal Photographic Society in the UK.  \n\n\n\nWillis is the author of The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship\, Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present; and more.  \n\n\n\nHer work has been exhibited widely and she has curated numerous shows. Exhibitions include: Monument LabStaying Power\, Philadelphia; 100Years/100Women\, Park Avenue Armory\,  In Conversation: Visual Meditations on Black Masculinity\, African American Museum Philadelphia; etc. \n\n\n\nShe holds honorary degrees from Pratt Institute and the Maryland Institute\, College of Art and is currently researching two projects on photography and the black arts movement and artists reimaging history. \n\n\n\nCOVID-19 PROTOCOLS \n\n\n\nALL visitors to NYU-sponsored event are REQUIRED to be up to date on their vaccinations: anyone who has completed their primary vaccinations AND received their booster vaccination; OR anyone who completed their primary vaccination more than 14 days ago\, but is not yet eligible to receive their booster vaccination. 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