GO ‘HEAD, FIX YOU A PLATE at AS220

GO ‘HEAD, FIX YOU A PLATE
Curated by Jazzmen Lee-Johnson + Persephone Allen

Opening Reception: September 13, 5 - 7 pm
Artist Panel: September 18, 6 - 7 pm
Closing Party + Listening Session: September 27, 1 - 6 pm
 
AS220 Aborn Gallery
95 Empire St, 2nd Floor
Providence RI 02903

Join OPEN in celebrating GO ‘HEAD, FIX YOU A PLATE, a new exhibition of artist Jazzmen Lee-Johnson’s work inspired by questions of memory, legacy, grief, and the familial homes in Baltimore where she was raised. Together with artworks by Becci Davis, Jordan Seaberry, and Dominique Sindayiganza, Lee-Johnson transforms AS220's Aborn Gallery into a space of rest, reckoning, and resistance. 

 

To be clear, this isn’t an OPEN project. It is however, co-curated by one of our amazing advisory group members, Persephone Allen. This feels like a good time to introduce her a bit.

Persephone Allen (she/her) is a curator, cultural producer, design historian, and educator from Providence. She brings a collaborative and community-engaged approach to creating programs, exhibitions, and courses that catalyze dialogue, connection, and responsiveness, inviting us to examine art, design, and ourselves through multiple perspectives. She learns from and with her students at RISD, where she is an Adjunct Lecturer in Art and Design History. She has also held positions in education, curatorial, and programming at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, the American Folk Art Museum in New York, The Frick Collection in New York, Mason Gross School of the Arts - Rutgers University in New Brunswick, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Bard Graduate Center Gallery in New York.

 
 
 
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