A Conversation on Juneteenth

Lauren Cross with Nasher Public and For Oak Cliff

For Oak Cliff and Nasher Public present a conversation on Juneteenth with Dr. Lauren Cross, Vicki Meek, and Kymberly Keaton

For Oak Cliff and the Nasher Public present a conversation on Juneteenth with Dr. Lauren Cross, Vicki Meek, and Kymberly Keaton on Friday, June 18th from 6-7 p.m. The panel will discuss African American history, culture, and the importance of Juneteenth.About the panelistskYmberly KeetonkYmberly Keeton is a native Texan, a nationally published writer, an art librarian &amp; archivist, and genealogy curator. By day, the ALA Emerging Leader and Library Journal 2020 Mover &amp; Shaker is the African American Community Archivist &amp; Librarian at the Austin History Center, Austin Public Library. Independently, Keeton is the Chief Artistic Officer of NOVELLA MEDIA, a creative multimedia production company and the founder of ART | library deco. Currently, the writer is pursuing a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of North Texas. The creative interdisciplinary mixologist can be seen on the regular with her dog, Roxy Blue. And if nothing else, kYmberly is always taking time to read books, write hooks, and design the next…Vicki MeekVicki Meek, born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is a nationally recognized artist who has exhibited widely. Meek is in the permanent collections of the African American Museum in Dallas, The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Fort Wayne Museum of Art in Indiana, Paul Quinn College in Dallas, Serie Art Project in Austin and Norwalk Community College in Norwalk, Connecticut. She was awarded three public arts commissions with the Dallas Area Rapid Transit Art Program and was co-artist on the largest public art project in Dallas, the Dallas Convention Center Public Art Project.Meek was selected as one of ten national artists to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Nasher Sculpture Center with the commissioning of a site-specific installation. Meek’s retrospective “Vicki Meek: 3 Decades of Social Commentary” opened in November 2019 at Houston Museum of African American Culture and marked the end of her concentrating solely on her installation practice as she moves into creating work using video as the primary medium. She dubs these new works video comments since they are no more than 8 minutes in length and are done in a series format.Vicki Meek has been awarded a number of grants and honors including National Endowment for the Arts NFRIG Grant, Dallas Observer MasterMind Award, Dallas Museum of Art Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Travel Grant, Texas Black Filmmakers Mission Award, Women of Visionary Influence Mentor Award, Dallas Women’s Foundation Maura Award, nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award and the African American Museum at Dallas A. Maceo Smith Award for Cultural Achievement.In addition to having a studio practice, Vicki Meek is an independent curator and writes cultural criticism for Dallas Weekly with her blog Art &amp; Racenotes (http://artracenotes. blogspot.com) and also wrote a monthly column, ARTiculate for TheaterJones, an online performing arts magazine.Meek is an adjunct faculty member for UMass Arts Extension Program in Amherst, Massachusetts where she teaches a course in Cultural Equity in the Arts. With over 40+ years of arts administrative experience that includes working as a senior program administrator for a state arts agency, a local arts agency and running a non-profit visual arts center, after 20 years, Vicki Meek retired in March 2016 as the Manager of the South Dallas Cultural Center in Dallas. She served on the board of National Performance Network/Visual Artists Network 2008-15 and was Chair from 2012-2014. In 2016, Meek was selected to be a Fellow in the Intercultural Leadership Institute and also became a Voting Member of Alternate Roots, a national artist service organization.Vicki Meek currently spends time as Chief Operating Officer and Board Member of USEKRA: Center for Creative Investigation, a non-profit retreat for creatives in Costa Rica founded by internationally acclaimed performance artist Elia Arce. She is also Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson’s at-large appointment to the Arts and Culture Commission and the Public Art Committee and President of Friends of the South Dallas Cultural Center.Lauren CrossLauren Cross is an artist, curator, and scholar, who holds an M.F.A. in Visual Arts from Lesley University in Cambridge, Mass., 2010, and a Ph.D. in Multicultural Women&#x27;s and Gender Studies from Texas Woman&#x27;s University, Denton. She is the founder of the arts non-profit, WoCA Projects, in Fort Worth, Texas.Cross&#x27; research addresses critical multicultural approaches in arts practice, arts entrepreneurship, curatorial studies, museum studies, and art history. Cross has been a frequent presenter at academic and public conferences across the country and internationally, and is the director of the award-winning documentary, The Skin Quilt Project, which was produced in 2010 and was an official selection at the 2010 International Black Women&#x27;s Film Festival in Berkley, California.Cross has been recognized nationally and internationally for her art practice and community work included featured works in museums and galleries across the U.S. and the 2015 Edinburgh Art Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland. She received the Third Annual Visionary Award by Fort Worth Weekly magazine in 2013 and was named one of Dallas&#x27; &quot;100 Creatives&quot; by the Dallas Observer in 2015. In 2018, Cross was selected as a Visiting Artist for the Center for Creative Connections at the Dallas Museum of Art, and an inaugural Carter Community Artist for the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. In 2019, Cross was recognized as one of 13 Women Forwarding Fort Worth by Fort Worth Magazine. For more information about Cross, visit www.laurenecross.com.

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