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SUMMARY:Where is the Care?
DESCRIPTION:Where is the Care?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn an art world characterized by transactional relationships\, it can sometimes feel as though the demand for care arises from a moment of crisis rather than from a commitment to systemic change. In the conversation “Where is the Care?”\, Dejha Carrington and Damien Davis will explore the processes through which care is rendered\, interrogating the barriers and pathways that lead to a more interconnected and compassionate art environment. Carrington is the 2026–27 CBVC Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence and Co-Founder of Commissioner—a dynamic art program that runs on cooperative economics to fund artist commissions and collect art. Davis is a writer\, educator\, and artist whose current exhibition\, “Hedges and Edges\,” engages with identity\, ritual\, business\, and community. Join us as we explore the structural frameworks fostering genuine support during these complicated times. \nDejha Carrington is an arts leader. In 2017\, she co-founded Commissioner\, a collaborative model and social practice that brings locals together to support contemporary artists and collect art in their cities. As Executive Director\, she has cultivated a community of over 850 members to date\, collectively funding more than 50 curated artist commissions in Miami\, Detroit\, Montréal\, and Mexico City. From 2015 to 2022\, she served as Vice President of Strategic Communications for YoungArts. She is CBVC’s 2026–27 Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence and teaches the Business of Art at New World School of the Arts at Miami-Dade College\, dividing her time between Miami\, Montréal\, and New York. \nDamien Davis is a Brooklyn-based artist and curator\, born in Crowley\, Louisiana and raised in Phoenix\, Arizona. His practice explores historical representations of Blackness\, unpacking the visual language of different cultures and questioning how those societies code and decode representations of race through craft\, design\, and digital modes of production. Using digital tools to shape layers of natural and synthetic materials\, Davis composes stories through a lexicon of graphic figures and shapes that move between personal memory and chapters of human history\, using color as both aesthetic and metaphor to create space for confronting bias and dehumanization in contemporary society. His work has appeared at the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, the Museum of Arts and Design\, The Whitney Museum\, and the Museum of Modern Art\, as well as METHOD Gallery in Seattle and Biagiotti Progetto Arte in Italy. He holds a Master’s degree in Visual Arts Administration from NYU and is the recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Community Engagement Grant\, with residencies at the Museum of Arts and Design\, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council\, and Pilchuck Glass School. Davis is a former fellow and current advisor for the Art & Law Program in New York City. His work has been featured in The New York Times\, Frieze Magazine\, The Guardian\, Hyperallergic\, and Vulture. \n\nRSVP \nDates:  October 20\, 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/on-collecting-and-memory-work-with-dejha-carrington-and-damien-davis
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, 20 Cooper Square\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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SUMMARY:Tenderheaded: A Book Talk & Signing with Michaela Angela Davis
DESCRIPTION:Tenderheaded: A Book Talk & Signing with Michaela Angela Davis\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Center for Black Visual Culture welcomes former VIBE founding fashion director Michaela Angela Davis for a talk and signing of her memoir\, Tenderheaded\, in conversation with CBVC Program Director Dr. Joan Morgan. Having worked alongside icons like Diana Ross\, Prince\, and Maya Angelou\, Davis offers both a celebration of Black media’s vibrant history and a critical examination of its challenges and identity politics. Join us for an evening exploring race\, beauty\, and self-acceptance through the lens of a career spent shaping and reflecting Black culture. \nPart memoir and part cultural manifesto\, Tenderheaded is a tribute to Black girls and women everywhere\, examining the role media and American history play in shaping collective identity\, and standing as a testament to self-acceptance. \n\n\nMichaela Angela Davis is a writer\, image activist\, and cultural critic who has shaped Black beauty and media culture for over three decades. As VIBE magazine’s founding fashion director\, she worked alongside icons including Diana Ross\, Prince\, and Maya Angelou\, helping define the visual language of Black music and style journalism. She continues to work at the intersection of media\, identity\, and activism\, using her platform to advocate for the representation and dignity of Black women. \nDr. Joan Morgan is Program Director of NYU’s Center for Black Visual Culture and Institute of African American Affairs\, an award-winning cultural critic\, feminist author\, Grammy-nominated songwriter\, and a pioneering hip-hop journalist. She coined the term “hip-hop feminism” in 1999 with the publication of her groundbreaking book When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost\, now taught in college classrooms across the country. Regarded internationally as an expert on hip-hop\, the Caribbean\, and gender\, she is also the author of She Begat This: 20 Years of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill and has appeared on HBO Max\, Netflix\, MTV\, BET\, CNN\, and MSNBC\, among others. \n\nRSVP \nDates:  February 11\, 2027 \nTime:  6:00 – 8:00 pm \nLocation: 20 Cooper Square 3rd Floor Lobby\, New York\, NY\, 10003 \n 
URL:https://cbvc.nyu.edu/events/tenderheaded-a-book-talk-signing-with-michaela-angela-davis
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, 20 Cooper Square\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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