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Celebrating Juneteenth: Creating Our Futures
In this year’s celebration of Juneteenth, 2022–2024 Romare Bearden Fellow Charlie Farrell will moderate a panel of artists whose practice is rooted in the principles of Juneteenth, history and freedom. André Fuqua and Brianna McIntyre of Occupy Vacancy confront legacies of racism and urban renewal in north St. Louis neighborhoods. They are not only creating sculptures, but they are also building community and seeking ways to preserve the histories of the neighbor (hoods) that are forgotten. Patrick Earl Hammie’s series I AM… THE NIGHT explores the psychology of racism through lynching photographs manipulated to look like Rorschach tests. Together in conversation, these artists will discuss the importance of remembering history and ways we can imagine new Black futures. The program will be opened by Gwen Moore, curator of Urban Landscape and Community Identity at the Missouri Historical Society, who will discuss the local history of Juneteenth.
This program is available via livestream. To register and receive the Zoom link, please click the link below.
From left: André Fuqua and Brianna McIntyre of Occupy Vacancy and artist Patrick Earl Hammie
About the speakers
Occupy Vacancy is a public art initiative, co-founded by Brianna McIntyre and André Fuqua, that reimagines the physical landscape of St. Louis City by activating vacant city-owned lots as sites for neighborhood specific public art.
Brianna McIntyre is a visual artist, interior architect, and Occupy Vacancy’s creative director. Her practice is grounded in restorative justice and relational aesthetics. Brianna’s fabrication and material efficacy, rooted in fiber art and object design, aid her in imbuing charged objects with personal narratives. In her work, she addresses labor, space, and beauty politics through the lens of a Black woman.
André Fuqua is a visual artist, engineer, and Occupy Vacancy’s design engineer. His practice explores power and perception as they relate to structure and place. André’s work includes sculpture, photography, and printmaking and draws influence from his Black heritage, land history, architecture, and found objects. His scientific research is centered on earthen architecture and infrastructure renewal.
Patrick Earl Hammie is an interdisciplinary visual artist and educator who specializes in portraiture, systems of knowledge production, and the politics of representation. Hammie’s work reclaims Black agency and authorship through representation, abstraction, and pastiche to offer stories that expand notions of self, community, and others. He is currently professor, chair of studio art, and Director’s Fellow in the School of Art & Design and Department of African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Ticket information
Tickets for the on-site program may be reserved in person at the Museum’s welcome desks or through MetroTix. All tickets secured through MetroTix incur a service charge; the service charge is waived for tickets obtained in person at the Museum.
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This program will also be livestreamed for free via Zoom and will have automated closed captions. Livestream attendees must register to receive the Zoom link. A closed-captioned recording of the program may be posted on the SLAM’s YouTube channel and at slam.org at a later date.
Generous support provided by Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All program.
