tbradley

About tbradley

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Tiffany Bradley works at the intersection of contemporary art, social justice, and Millennial culture. She has over a decade of experience in marketing for cultural institutions and independent businesses. Tiffany has worked in audience development at Race Forward, Americans for the Arts, Fractured Atlas, and Heart of Brooklyn. As a Fulbright scholar, she focused on contemporary art spaces in the Middle East.

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Guild Hall: Art Criticism, The Next Generation

A new generation of commentators are remaking art criticism in their image. This program will screen three short films and one work-in-progress, showcasing arts experiences from Native American, Afro-Brazilian, African-American, and Caribbean-American communities. A panel discussion will follow with Millennial curators and journalists responding to the changing understanding of cultural heritage. Shorts include Digital Natives: Plains Indians at The Met, Free Blacks: DanceAfrica at BAM, Millennial Realness: 2019 Whitney Biennial and documentary work-in-progress Carnival Queens.

Panelists:

  • Filmmaker and art critic Tiffany Bradley expands the discussion of art, heritage, and identity.
  • Multi-hyphenate Belinda Becker tells stories through in dance, acting, journalism, and music.
  • Historian Dr. Tyesha Maddox of Fordham University explores kinship networks and social organizations in her research on Caribbean American identity.
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Starting Something New

Amherst College: Grab and Don’t Go Lunch

Join Tiffany Bradley for lunch and conversation in the Amherst Multicultural Resource Center (MRC). Bradley is the founder of Colored Criticism, a company for cultural heritage stories. Her focus is on intersectional, interpersonal, and interdisciplinary arts. Bradley’s film work has been shown at Brooklyn Community Foundation and Rush Arts Foundation. Her writing has appeared in The Nation, Colorlines, Racialicious, and the Americans for the Arts blog. Tiffany has worked in audience development at the U.S. Department of Arts & Culture, Race Forward, Americans for the Arts, and Fractured Atlas. Free and open to Amherst College faculty, staff and students!

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Amherst College: Curating the Contemporary

Tiffany Bradley, founder of Colored Criticism, a company for cultural heritage stories, will moderate a panel of contemporary art curators, featuring David E. Little, the John Wieland 1958 Director and Chief Curator of the Mead; Horace D. Ballard, curator of American art at the Williams College Museum of Art; and Emma Chubb, the Charlotte Feng Ford ’83 Curator of Contemporary Art at the Smith College Museum of Art. An opening reception for the Mead’s new fall exhibitions will follow.

The panel discussion will take place from 5 to 6 p.m. in Stirn Auditorium and the opening reception from 6-7 p.m. in the Mead Art Museum. Both events are free and open to all.

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2019 Whitney Biennial

 

The Whitney Biennial goes Millennial! With 75% of the artists under the age of 40, this exhibition really reflects a generational change. We speak with artists Brendan Fernandes and Tiona Nekkia McClodden; curators Rujeko Hockley and Jane Panetta; the legendary Arnold Lehman and Hrag Vartanian, Editor-in-Chief of Hyperallergic.

The Art of Politics

How do we talk politics? Many months away from the presidential election, I’m already tired of our current discussion. The news is full of conversations that don’t work: recaps of overcrowded debates, endless fact checking, and GIFs of candidates’ faces. Also not helpful for political inspiration: long policy papers that no one but reporters and political junkies will read. And certainly the least useful: the screaming and shouting led by reality-show candidate Donald Trump.

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DanceAfrica at BAM‬

Belinda Becker reviews DanceAfrica 2015 at Brooklyn Academy of Music. This episode discusses dance across the African diaspora, including Haiti, Brazil and Cuba. She also talks about warrior dances, Black Lives Matter, and resistance. Performance by Afro-Brazilian dance troupe Balé Folclórico da Bahia.

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Plains Indians at The Met

Lauren Chief Elk reviews “The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She discusses beadwork, headdresses, and representations of Natives. Chief Elk is a Nakoda/Lakota writer, data artist, and co-founder of the Save Wiyabi Project.

Color Critic: Lauren Chief Elk

ChiefElkI knew that I had to see “The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky.” And I knew that I had to take Lauren Chief Elk with me.

The Plains Indians show took a long road to New York: art lovingly created over centuries in the heartland of America (often before the existence of the United States.) These pieces traveled through the hands of many: into institutions and private collections in France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Canada, and the United States. The exhibition originated at the Musée du quay Branly, Paris, was curated by Gaylord Torrance of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and was organized by Judith Ostrowitz, Ph.D. at the Metropolitan Museum. I was beyond excited to see a culture that is often parodied and misunderstood, but rarely respected, in the halls of the Met.

And my clique had to come too! Art can be an individual or communal experience, but I wanted to hear from a modern Plains Indian.

Lauren Chief Elk, a Nakoda/Lakota writer, activist, and data artist, was just the voice. Both tribes are part of the Oceti Sakowin (or Sioux) Nation. Chief Elk is a true digital native, indigenous to both the Internet and the Americas. She ties together these identities in a way unique to our generation. Chief Elk uses technology tools to continue conversations about tribal sovereignty and women’s rights. Her fierce tweeting and incisive data collection describe the struggles of her community. You may not agree with everything she says, but you can’t deny that she’s one of the most passionate voices online today.

I’m proud to welcome Lauren Chief Elk as the inaugural Color Critic. You can learn more about her work on the Save Wįyąbi Project and Model View Culture. We’ll be tweeting about this episode using the hashtag #digitalnatives.

How to Talk About Race Without Getting Stuck in ‘Clybourne Park’

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