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Colored Criticism Holiday Party 2022

November 30, 2022

Hi friend! 

Join the Colored Criticism family for our first in-person event since 2020! We’re celebrating the holidays and our continued community with a holiday party. And it’s free thanks to funding from NYSCA and a space grant from Gibney!

We’ll be hosting Passion Fruit Dance Company, a trio featuring choreographer Tatiana Desardouin and dancers Mai Lê Hô and Lauriane Ogay.

In Dance Within Your Dance, Tatiana invites you to connect with the techniques, rhythms and essence of hip-hop and house dance. The performance piece is followed by a lecture/Q&A about race, using “an introspective seed” – a tool designed by Tatiana to start an introspective anti-racist work.

I am *so* excited to see y’all in a few weeks. Spread the word and bring a friend. Let’s get holiday season started off right!

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Revisioning Research: Looking at Identity and Visual Culture

February 18, 2021

Part of the Middle East Librarians Association (MELA) Social Justice Lecture Series 2020-2021 season, Stories and Silences: Research on Race in the Middle East.

February 18th, 2021

Critic Tiffany Bradley will examine art, literature, and photography as tools to explore Middle Eastern communities. She will discuss cultivating a multicultural, multiracial approach to research in the Middle East and North Africa. Her discussion will be informed by her anthropological fieldwork in Nubian communities in Cairo and Palestinians of African descent in Jerusalem. She will also talk about online networks looking at shared histories from a fresh perspective. This interactive session will consider approaches to diversifying studies for academics, researchers, and students.

Recording available upon request.

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Art Off Pause Playlist

May 3, 2020

Did you miss us? That’s okay – every episode of #ArtOffPause is available for viewing on YouTube.

Watch the Playlist

Previous Guests on #ArtOffPause

  • Wednesday 8/12: Dr. Bimbola Akinbola on portraiture, diaspora, and COVID philanthropy in Chicago 
  • 7/ 1: Tammy Johnson on bellydance, community, and Black resilience in the Bay Area.
  • Tuesday 5/12:  Kevin Seaman on toxic masculinity, drag culture and #femMASCULINE in San Francisco.
  • Tuesday 5/5:  Dr. Ndubuisi Ezeluomba on insider/outsider visions of ancestor worship at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
  • Monday 5/4:  Alexander Hernandez on textiles, migration, and resilience in Latino communities in California.
  • Tuesday 4/28:  Marcela Torres on agentic modes, Muay Thai, and moving past violence in Chicago.
  • Monday 4/27:  Channing Kennedy on preschool storytimes and equity in California.
  • Friday 4/25: Kale Roberts on hijacking the ritual of tailgating in Florida.
  • Thursday 4/24: Betty Yu on imagining de-gentrified futures in New York.
  • Wednesday 4/23: Dr. Kimberli Gant on showcasing Black artists at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Virginia.
  • Tuesday 4/21: Dr. Emma Chubb and Yao Wu on shifting curatorial approaches at the Smith College Museum of Art in Massachusetts.
  • Monday 4/20: Lexa Walsh on radical hospitality and artist residencies in California.

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Art Off Pause Livestream

April 13, 2020

We need art, and we need each other. Every part of our world has been disrupted by the COVID-19 outbreak.  Americans have turned to arts as a refuge. Since we can’t gather in person, we’ve moved our socializing online.

#ArtOffPause is a livestream series and social media campaign that helps us to stay connected as we look ahead. Our arts institutions are “on pause” to stop the spread of COVID-19. Artists, curators, and scholars will preview their suspended or upcoming projects via livestream. Our community can envision what the future might bring after the public health crisis.

We can’t access our museums and galleries, but we have access to each other. This crisis gives us an opportunity to highlight the people and process of art, instead of objects. Through connecting on a daily basis, we can deepen our relationship to our work and to our larger community. We need something to look forward to in the face of national adversity.

Register for Art Off Puase
Watch on YouTube

Stay tuned for more from #ArtOffPause this summer!

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Exploration of Black Art & History

February 10, 2020

February 9, 2020

Celebrate Black History Month with Grace! Grace Church White Plains celebrates Black History through a series of enriching events. Parishioners are invited to wear African garb or any combination of African colors—red, green or black—on all four Sundays in February.

During a special Coffee Hour, Tiffany Bradley will share her insights on contemporary Black art and dance. She founded Colored Criticism to expand the narrative around art and cultural heritage. During this hour, Tiffany will screen short art films and discuss upcoming exhibitions in the NYC area. Free and open to the public.

Watch the video: https://www.facebook.com/gracewhiteplains/videos/575806549678298/UzpfSTE1ODI3OTcxNDUzMDExNDg6MjU2MDI4NTkwNDIxODkyOQ/

Filed Under: Events, Video

Art Criticism, The Next Generation

September 21, 2019

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 include:
• 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.

Learn more: https://www.guildhall.org/events/art-criticism-the-next-generation/


Tiffany Bradley

Tiffany Bradley is the founder of Colored Criticism, a company for cultural heritage stories. Her focus is on intersectional, interpersonal, and interdisciplinary arts. Tiffany has created programs and media for Amherst College, Art Matters Foundation, 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. She holds a B.A. in Africana Studies from Brown University, and was a Fulbright scholar in Museum Studies at the University of Haifa.

Belinda Becker

Belinda Becker is a triple threat as DJ, dancer, and actor. Originally from Kingston, Jamaica, Belinda is well-known in the arts scene. She is a regular contributor to the lifestyle magazine Ubikwist, and was recently featured in the NY Times Metropolitan section. She has been studying and performing Haitian Folklore, and Afro-Cuban dance for over 20 years under the direction of Pat Hall and Baba Richard Gonzalez. She currently spins at such venues including the Top of the Standard and Dumbo House, and formerly at Area, Nells, and Radio Lily. Dance companies include: The Pat Hall Dancers, Bonga and Voudou Drums of Haiti, La Troupe Makandal, and Urban Tap. Film and television credits include: Jean Galmot, Aventurier, Law & Order, Left Unsaid, Love Rome and Sticky Fingers of Time. Belinda lives in Brooklyn with her beautiful daughter Willow. 

Dr. Tyesha Maddox 

Dr. Tyesha Maddox is an Assistant Professor at Fordham University in the Department of African and African American Studies. She received her PhD in History from New York University in 2016. She received a BA in History and Africana Studies and a MPS in Africana Studies both from Cornell University. She is currently the 2019-2020 Race and Gender Post-Doctoral Associate at Rutgers University. Her current manuscript, “From Invisible to Immigrants: Political Activism and the Construction of Caribbean American Identity, 1890-1940,” examines the significance of Anglophone Caribbean immigrant mutual aid societies and benevolent associations in New York. It explores how these organizations played a vital role in the formation of transnational identities and facilitated community building, creating kinship networks that both empowered immigrants to form a collective “Caribbean” identity and unleashed a political activism among immigrants fighting alongside African Americans to insure their equality in the tumultuous era of American Jim Crow.

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