EP #55 | Sunday, October 20th featuring Shanequa Gay in conversation with Jasmine Wilson.
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. Jasmine Wilson to moderate a conversation with artist Shanequa Gay. The conversation will dive into Shenqua's artistic practice, and explore the themes of artistic expression, centering Blackness, postcolonialism, and healing in relation to the American South and African communities.
About Moderator: Jasmine Wilson is a sound healer, curator, and writer from Atlanta, GA. Using African aesthetics as her primary framework, Jasmine’s practice explores the relationship between visual art and healing. Her interests include highlighting the physical and metaphysical significance of artwork within her writing and curatorial projects, while revealing the ways that art can influence our consciousness. With over six years of experience working in the art and cultural sector, Jasmine has held art administration and curatorial positions at the High Museum of Art, Studio Museum in Harlem, AUC Art History & Curatorial Studies Collective at Spelman College, and the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art. Her writings have appeared in Sugarcane Magazine, Contemporary And, and Burnaway, among others. Jasmine has mentored emerging writers as a workshop leader and tutor for the global art magazine, Contemporary And. In 2022, Jasmine earned her MA in African American Studies from Clark Atlanta University, where she completed her thesis, “The African Symbolism of Simone Leigh’s Brick House Sculpture.” Jasmine holds a BA in English with Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude honors from Howard University.
Shanequa Gay: Gay exhibits her works and procures residencies within the United States, Europe, Japan, and South Africa. She is a Do-Good Fellow recipient, an Emory University Arts and Social Justice Fellow, (2020) a Hudgens Prize Finalist (2022), the first Inaugural Visual Artist-in-Residence at Oglethorpe University, 2022-23 and is one of five Georgia Women to Watch selected by the Georgia Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (2023). Gay’s exhibitions include four womxn, Museum of Fine Arts Boston (2024); New Worlds: Georgia Women to Watch, Atlanta Contemporary (2023), the European Cultural Centre Personal Structures-REFLECTION, 59th Venice Biennale (2022); Atlanta Biennial, Atlanta Contemporary (2021); Le Monde Bossale: Af-Flux – Transnational Black Biennial, Art Mûr Galerie (2021); and Holding Space for Nobility: A Memorial for Breonna Taylor, Ackland Museum, Chapel Hill North Carolina (2020).