In the second roundtable, curators and directors from museums and artist-founded spaces will discuss new initiatives, programs, and challenges for art institutions in South L.A.
The first roundtable will explore postwar histories of several Black arts institutions and community-engaged art practices in the Crenshaw-Leimert Park and West Adams neighborhoods. Jones’s lecture will provide context for three roundtables on Saturday, April 30, at the California African American Museum (CAAM). On Friday, April 29, at the USC Roski School of Art and Design, renowned art historian and curator Kellie Jones will give a keynote lecture on her book, South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s. This inspiring two-day series of events will focus on art, artists, and cultural organizations in South Los Angeles since the 1960s. Barber, Ray Anthony Barrett, Alicia Piller and Felix Quintana.įor the wellbeing of our students and all who visit USC, and until further notice: masks are encouraged but not required when indoors.įor the California African American Museum’s current COVID-19 safety requirements, click here. EyeMinded offers a glimpse into the family conversation that has shaped and sustained Jones, insight into the development of her critical and curatorial vision, and a survey of some of the most important figures in contemporary art.Kellie Jones, Ben Caldwell, Groger Guenveur Smith, Amitis (Ami) Motevalli, Cameron Shaw, Pilar Rivas Tompkins, Lisa Diane Wedgeworth, Bethany Montagano, Tiffany E. Reflecting Jones's curatorial sensibility, this collection is structured as a dialogue between her writings and works by her parents, her sister Lisa Jones, and her husband Guthrie P.
Interviews that she conducted with the painter Howardena Pindell, the installation and performance artist David Hammons, and the Cuban sculptor Kcho appear along with pieces on the photographers Dawoud Bey, Lorna Simpson, and Pat Ward Williams the sculptor Martin Puryear the assemblage artist Betye Saar and the painters Jean-Michel Basquiat, Norman Lewis, and Al Loving. Featuring selections of her writings from the past twenty years, EyeMinded reveals Jones's role in bringing attention to the work of African American, African, Latin American, and women artists who have challenged established art practices. The activist vision of art and culture that she learned in those two communities, and especially from her family, has shaped her life and work as an art critic and curator. A daughter of the poets Hettie Jones and Amiri Baraka, Kellie Jones grew up immersed in a world of artists, musicians, and writers in Manhattan's East Village and absorbed in black nationalist ideas about art, politics, and social justice across the river in Newark.
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