ADAMA Arts Salon #46
ADAMA Arts Salon is a series of conversations featuring contemporary artists, curators, scholars, and more from across the African Diaspora.
Join us for ADAMA's upcoming in-person Arts Salon featuring Esohe Galbreath, filling for Dr. Fahamu Pecou to moderate a conversation on the topic of ancestral memory, with panelists Kelly Taylor Mitchell and Dr. Arturo Lindsay.
About Moderator: Dr. Fahamu Pecou is an interdisciplinary artist and scholar whose works combine observations on hip-hop, fine art, and popular culture to address concerns around contemporary representations of Black men. Through paintings, performance art, and academic work, Dr. Pecou confronts the performance of Black masculinity and Black identity, challenging and expanding the reading, performance, and expressions of Blackness.
Kelly Taylor Mitchell: An artist and educator who lives and works in Atlanta, GA where she is currently a 2023-2024 Midtown Alliance Artist-in-Residence, a 2023-2024 Arts & Social Justice Fellow at Emory University, a 2023-2024 BIPOC Lyndon House Arts Foundation Fellow, and an Assistant Professor of Art and Visual Culture at Spelman College. Kelly’s multidisciplinary practice centers oral history and ancestral memory, real and imagined, woven into the fabric of the Africana Diaspora. Her work is deeply invested in labor intensive making, slowness, and home-spun passed down processes. Toni Morrison’s concept of rememory functions as a medium in her work in tandem with printmaking, papermaking, performance, book arts, and textiles. Her current work stems from ancestral origin points in the American South and Caribbean. Kelly’s practice references and constructs mythologies that find their roots in marronage, Sankofa, masquerade, and protective gestures of the Diaspora.
Dr. Arturo Lindsay: An artist/cultural investigator/educator whose work is informed by the scholarly research he conducts on African spiritual and aesthetic retentions, rediscoveries and re-inventions in America. His research findings are manifested in works of art, as well as books, scholarly essays and lectures. A proud native of Colon, a seaport city on the Caribbean coast of the Republic of Panama, Lindsay migrated to the United States with his family at age 12 and settled in Brooklyn, New York.