Virtual Visiting Artist Workshop: Courtney Desiree Morris

The McCarl Coverlet Gallery is a nonprofit cultural organization that collects, preserves, interprets, and disseminates the history of weaving and folk traditions in the Northeastern region of the United States.

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Join us for a series of artist talks that focus on the intersections between art and activism. Additional material available for educators.

<p>ViVA is pleased to partner with St. Vincent College’s dual museums – the Foster and Muriel McCarl Coverlet Gallery and Verostko Center for the Arts -- to announce their upcoming joint fall series of virtual visiting artist talks and conversations. Scheduled for four Thursday evenings throughout the semester, each talk will take place over Zoom at 7:00 PM Eastern.</p><p>All four artists and collectives are united by their focus on interrelated themes that motivate their artistic work and creative practices, teaching, and community activism, including anti-racism, Black Lives Matter and racial inequality; the history of slavery; resilience, wellness and mental health; and power and privilege, as they intersect with climate change and environmental justice. The schedule is as follows:</p><h1>Courtney Desiree Morris: Thursday, November 11, 7:00 PM Eastern </h1><p>Courtney Desiree Morris employs photography, video, installation, and performance art to examine our sense of place—through migration, ancestry, and shared social memory—and how places inhabit us. Her creative practice acknowledges the way history persists in both the body and the environment, surfacing connections between ecology, memory, and a constant search for “home.” She often uses her body to remember experiences of loss, dispossession and the persistent struggle to make a place for oneself, with a particular emphasis on the African Diaspora in North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, and West Africa; and the experiences of female ancestors and elders whose stories are often disappeared. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at that Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), the National Gallery of Jamaica, Photographic Center Northwest (Seattle), the SF LGBT Center (San Francisco), and others. Morris’ creative practice draws on her work as a social anthropologist and assistant professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches courses on critical race theory, feminist theory, and environmental politics. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p>

<h1>Courtney Desiree Morris</h1><p>Artist’s website: https://www.courtneydesireemorris.com/</p><h3>HIGHLIGHTS</h3><p> Her work was recently on view at the Yerba Buena Arts Center</p><p> Though most of her work is centered on the African diaspora, one of the most powerful experiences in her practice occurred on a research trip to the Gaza strip where she learned of hunger strike occurring among 40 Palestinian prisoners and in response she created the work i am ceremonial</p><p>Morris is an accomplished Anthropologist who has written for both academic and popular journals. In a long tradition of Black critical thinkers and artists, she considers the way her discipline has shaped contemporary aesthetic sensibility and, at the same time, an insufficient tool for telling the stories of colonial oppression and anti-Black violence</p><p> In 2019, she had the opportunity to exhibit her work at the Jamaica National Gallery which was the first showing of her work internationally and personally meaningful given her father was born there. For more on Morris and her father in Jamaica, see her essay and photo series “My Father’s Land”</p><p> Courtney considers all of her work to be part of practice of ritual and engagement with ancestral memory</p><h3>THEMES</h3><p>Anti-Racism, Black Lives Matter &amp; Racial Inequality; Climate Change; Equality &amp; Equity; Feminism; Immigration &amp; Migration; LGBTQ+ Rights &amp; Queer Ecologies; Power &amp; Privilege; Slavery</p>

<h1>Attention Educators (or interested parties), please contact lauren.churilla@stvincent.edu for access to supplementary readings, videos, discussion prompts and classroom material.</h1>

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