Grand, Humble Conversations: Jacolby Satterwhite, RA Washington, and LaToya Kent

Name: Grand, Humble Conversations: Jacolby Satterwhite, RA Washington, and LaToya Kent
Start: 2021-10-29T00:00:00-04:00
End: 2022-01-02T23:59:59-05:00
Location: Grand, Humble Conversations: Jacolby Satterwhite, RA Washington, and LaToya Kent

Oct 29 – Jan 2

Grand, Humble Conversations

Recorded as part of Grand Prototypes, Humble Tools, the FRONT 2022 Preview Exhibition, which runs from October 8, 2021 to January 2, 2022 at Transformer Station in Cleveland, Ohio.

FRONT 2022 Artistic Director Prem Krishnamurthy talks with RA Washington, LaToya Kent, and Jacolby Satterwhite about their process of collaboration on Satterwhite’s commission for Cleveland Clinic’s BioRepository in collaboration with FRONT International and Fairfax neighborhood residents. Satterwhite asked Fairfax residents to draw and describe their visions of utopia. Washington and Kent, who connected with over one hundred Fairfax residents, describe the “class weight” they felt as they interacted with each contributor, and how their feelings deepend and evolved as the project continued. Satterwhite details his intentions for the project, where drawings that were quickly made—intentionally, to access people’s authentic feelings—would have long afterlives, first taking different digital shapes in Satterwhite’s hands, and then persisting as a public “monument” to the moment in which they were created.

Launched in 2018, FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art is a free, public, contemporary art exhibition. Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows, the second iteration of FRONT International, launches with a preview exhibition in Fall 2021, and the main exhibition will run from July 16 through October 2, 2022. Building on the success of FRONT’s first edition, FRONT 2022 furthers the Triennial’s commitment to the belief that by supporting creative communities and stimulating new cultural encounters in the region, contemporary art can be an important catalyst for positive social change.

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Transformer Station
1460 W 29th St
Cleveland OH 44113

Hours:
Wednesday–Sunday
11am–5pm

Produced By:
Rafeeq Roberts
Third Eye Productions
Cleveland, Ohio

This program was supported by Arts Midwest and the National Endowment for the Arts.