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 tota...

  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 ...