Register for Event   Center for Black Visual Culture. The CBVC welcomes For Freedoms Artist coalition to discuss their new monograph ‘Where Do We Go From Here?’ in conjunction with the exhibition ‘Where Do We Go From Here: The Four Freedoms Photographs’ in the Cooper Square Gallery. This panel will be followed by a book signing. For Freedoms is an artist-led organization that centers art as a catalyst for creative civic engagement, discourse, and direct action. Founded in 2016 by a coalition of artists including Hank Willis Thomas, Eric Gottesman, Michelle Woo, and Wyatt Gallery, For Freedoms is dedicated to fostering an environment of listening, healing, and justice through a wide range of creative activations. For Freedoms works closely with a variety of artists, organizations, institutions, and brands to expand what participation in a democracy looks like and reshape conversations about politics. For Freedoms has grown to become the largest community...

Center for Black Visual Culture. Thank you for attending The Center for Black Visual Culture and For Freedoms exhibition opening, Where Do We Go From Here? The Four Freedoms Photographs, by Hank Willis Thomas (TSOA ’98) and Emily Shur (TSOA '98), in collaboration with Eric Gottesman and Wyatt Gallery (TSOA ’97). Date:  On View through Nov. 2, 2024. Time:  Tues- Fri, 11am - 5pm Location: Cooper Square Gallery at New York University, 20 Cooper Square, New York, NY 10003

  Register for Event   Center for Black Visual Culture. Film Screening and Discussion In the wake of Southern violence, the documentary After Sherman chronicles the wisdom passed between generations of African Americans on how to survive materially and spiritually. Post-screening discussion with filmmaker Jon Sesrie-Goff (Ford Foundation JustFilms), moderated by Chenjerai Kumanyika (NYU Journalism, Host of the podcasts, Uncivil & Empire City: The Untold Origin Story of the NYPD), followed by a reception. This program is by NYU Center for Media, Culture and History. Co-sponsored by Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, Cinema Studies and Center for Black Visual Culture at the Institute of African American Affairs.   Date:  Thursday, November 7, 2024 Time:  6:00pm Location: Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, 20 Cooper Square, New York, NY 10003

  Register for Event   Center for Black Visual Culture. This global convening offers invited artists, writers, and scholars whose work re-imagines the experiences of migration, challenges normative xenophobic ideas and undermines a politics of fear to generate new discourses, aesthetics, and structures of knowledge. Our world is characterized by the movements of people, diasporas, and relocations: far from a temporary or “crisis” phenomenon, human beings globally and historically have always left their homes to escape war, to avoid persecution, for work, for security. We have been uprooted, stolen, trafficked, enslaved; they have been displaced from land despoiled of resources and habitats lost to extreme weather patterns and climate change. We have moved and migrated for deeply private and personal reasons - to reach potential freely, to lead meaningful lives, to secure a future for ourselves and our families. An account of the migration is the totality of many stories. We seek to capture the breadth of...

  Register for Event   Center for Black Visual Culture. Join us for a free screening of ERNEST COLE: LOST AND FOUND From the director of I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO, and featuring LaKeith Stanfield, this film chronicles the life and work of Ernest Cole. One of the first Black freelance photographers in South Africa, Cole’s early pictures, shocking at the time of their first publication, revealed to the world Black life under apartheid. LaKeith Stanfield provides the voice of Cole, truly helping to bring his words and untold story to life. Winner of the top documentary prize at Cannes, attend this free screening on New York premiere day, followed by a talk and Q&A with the Director, Raoul Peck and Dr. Michael Gillespie. Register now as seating is limited. The screening will begin promptly at 1:45pm. This program is sponsored by Magnolia Pictures, Kanbar Institute of Film & Television, Tisch Department...