Community Voices: A Public Dialogue with Marc Bamuthi Joseph

Every Thursday evening during Portraits and Other Likenesses from SFMOMA, join us in the MoAD galleries for Community Voices: A Public Dialogue. Hear a creative thinker from the Bay Area cultural community reflect on the exhibition’s themes of identity, representation, space, and diaspora, and how these themes inspire the speaker’s practice.

Marc Bamuthi Joseph was among the inaugural recipients of the United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship, the winner of the 2011 Alpert Award in Theatre, and an inaugural recipient of the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award. He is the founding program director of the exemplary nonprofit Youth Speaks and a cofounder of Life Is Living, a national series of one-day festivals designed to activate under-resourced parks through hip-hop arts and focused environmental action. Joseph recently premiered the Creative Time commission Black Joy in the Hour of Chaos in New York’s Central Park, and is currently completing new works for the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, Opera Philadelphia, and South Coast Repertory while serving as chief of program and pedagogy at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. His evening-length piece /peh-LO-tah/ has been commissioned by the John F. Kennedy Center and will premiere at YBCA in the fall of 2016.