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If It Wasn’t for the Women: Navigating Memory
This year’s panel discussion celebrating women of color in the arts will explore memory. Artists Alayna N. Pernell, Marina Peng, and Allena Marie Brazier will discuss how their multidisciplinary practices emerge from photography and use memories as vehicles for introspection, healing, and advocacy. The artists identify, reflect, and challenge systemic issues that shape their identities. The conversation will be moderated by Justice Henderson, the 2023-2025 Romare Bearden Graduate Museum Fellow.
From left: Alayna N. Pernell, Marina Peng, and Allena Marie Brazier
Alayna N. Pernell is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator from Heflin, Alabama. She is the associate lecturer of photography and imaging at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the program director for the Milwaukee Artist Resource Network. She is also a contributing writer for Lenscratch, an online photographic arts publication. She received a bachelor of arts in studio art from the University of Alabama and master’s of fine arts in photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Marina Peng is a multimedia artist from St. Louis. She works across fiber, sculpture, installation, and photography. She received a bachelor of fine arts from Washington University in St. Louis in 2017. She has exhibited her work both locally and regionally at spaces including ACRE Projects, Dream Clinic Project Space, Duane Reed Gallery, Granite City Art and Design District, The Kranzberg Arts Foundation, The Luminary, PLUG, and Granite City Art and Design District.
Allena Marie Brazier is an award-winning artist, curator, and published writer from East St. Louis, Illinois. She has a bachelor of fine arts from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and master’s of fine arts from Washington University. She was the inaugural curator in residence for Sam Fox-Lewis Collaborative at TechArtista. Currently, she is guest curator for the exhibition Existence of Coziness at Maryville University and project member and consultant with the Middle Waters Field School.
Ticket information
Tickets for this free, on-site program may be reserved in person at the Museum’s Information Centers 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.
Register for in-person lecture
This lecture 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.
