Rivers Presents, A Conversation with Troy Montes Michie

Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought & Amistad Research Center proudly invite you to join us for an evening of conversation with our second Amistad-Rivers Research Resident, Troy Montes Michie, in New Orleans.

On Thursday, October 20th, Michie will discuss his recent research in the Amistad Research Center’s archives and join New Orleans-based artist Ashley Teamer for a conversation about collage aesthetics and constructivist futures in our swiftly changing landscapes. Their conversation will be moderated by Andrea Andersson (founding director and curator, Rivers).

We hope you will join us to learn more about artists’ practices, our program, and the art that collaboration makes possible. Doors open at 6pm, the conversation will commence at 6:30pm. Reception to follow.

Through assemblage and juxtaposition, Troy Montes Michie engages Black consciousness, Latinx experience, immigration and queerness and investigates the ways in which bodies of marginalized communities are frequently erased and fetishized. Montes Michie holds a BFA from the University of Texas at El Paso and an MFA from Yale School of Art. His works have recently been included in exhibitions at the Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU (Richmond), The MAC (Belfast), The Shed (New York), The Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), and Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. He is currently a Lecturer of Visual Arts in Program at Princeton University (New Jersey).

Ashley Teamer’s collages explore the relationships between the body, nature, space, and time. She uses painting, sculpture, photography, and sound to creatively intervene with indoor and outdoor architecture revealing the malleability of our built environment. She has been an Artist-in-Residence at and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2014) and the Joan Mitchell Center (2018). Teamer received a BFA from Boston University in 2013 and an MFA from Yale University in 2022. Her work has been most recently exhibited as a series of billboards called Lady Bleu Devils in New Orleans, Louisiana.