Subject Matters Kresge Arts in Detroit

Artists Ajara Alghali and Patrick Quarm discuss what their West African heritage teaches them about themselves, their community, and their art.

References


Sierra Afrique
Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana
National Dance Company of Sierra Leone
The Collegium for African Diaspora Dance (CADD)
Temate African Dance Arts
Eye of the Beholder, Patrick Quarm (2020)
This Mirror Reflects Your Truest Self film
NXTHVN 
Larry Ossei-Mensah

Faina Lerman and Scott Vincent Campbell dismantle the idea of being full-time artists and emphasize manifesting a life full of creativity, particularly in Detroit, instead. 

References


Popps Packing
Robert David 
Momm and Popp Residency For Parent Artists
The Sustainable Arts Foundation
Matthew Eaton
Wedge 1, 2016
M Contemporary Art
Grant Czuj
LaKela Brown

Artist Ian Kuali'i and poet Jessica Care Moore discuss where to draw the line between cultural admiration and cultural appropriation and consider if gatekeeping is even worth Find links to key materials discussed below and check out win.gs/subjectmatters for the transcript.

References:


Doze Green of Rock Steady Crew
Cherokee Advocate printing press returns to Cherokee Nation
Land Acknowledgements
Felicia Garcia, curator of education at the Indian Arts Research Center (IARC)
Kuleana
It’s Time to Acknowledge Native Hawaiians' Special Right To Housing
Donate to KAHEA 
Donate to Pu’uhonua O Waianae houseless village
Donate to Protect Mauna Kea
Black Women Rock
Moore Black Press
Ras Baraka
Saul Williams
Amiri Baraka
Sonia Sanchez
Lucille Clifton
Audre Lorde
Gil Scott Heron
Alphonso Cox
Assata Shakur 
Dr. Brenda Greene
The National Black Writers Conference (NBWC) 
Heard Museum 
MONUMENT/PILLAR
Radcliffe Bailey
Atlantic Center for the Arts
Nikki Giovanni
T.S. Eliot
Walt Whitman
Robert Frost
Where Are The People? A poetry mini film by jessica Care moore
We Want Our Bodies Back
Third Man Records
Source Booksellers
Q’s Kitchen
Concert of Colors
Qasim Basir
Marvin Towns Jr.

adrienne maree brown and Taylor Aldridge consider how archives tantilize and thrive in the present moment. Find links to key materials discussed below and check out win.gs/subjectmatters for the transcript.


Steffani Jemison
Octavia Butler
Allied Media Conference
Mama Aneb aka Gloria House
Zora  Neale Hurston
Toni Morrision
Alice Walker
Charity Hicks
Beverly Glenn-Copeland
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Toni Cade Bambara
Nnedi Okorafor
ARTS. BLACK
Jessica Lynne
BLK 
Enunciated Life
California African American Museum: CAAM
Kimberly Drew
Audre Lorde Uses of the Erotic
Enshrined: Presence + Preservation, the art of Mario Moore
Damon Davis Cracks Series
Maceo Paisley
Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation by adrienne maree brown

Artists Cherise Morris and Holly Bass discuss the restorative, transformative journey of creating contemporary work that draws from the past and reaches all generations. Find links to key materials discussed below and check out win.gs/subjectmatters for the transcript.


Deborah Willis
Ọmọlará Williams McCallister
Root Work by Holly Bass
Jasmine Hearn
Visions of the Evolution by Cherise Morris

Jennifer Harge and Joiri Minaya discuss creating your own value systems and resisting institutional frameworks around art making by displaying and performing art in unconventional ways. Find links to key materials discussed below and check out win.gs/subjectmatters for the transcript.

SHOW NOTES


Containers

Mourn and Never Tire

Fly Drown

Riverside Park

Another Space

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art

Devin Drake

Yadoo