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Left: Ramekon O'Arwisters; courtesy the artist; photo: Michael Ross. Right: Tim Roseborough; courtesy the artist.
Talks

Community Voices: A Public Dialogue with Ramekon O'Arwisters and Tim Roseborough

Thursday, Aug 27, 2015

5 p.m.

Museum of the African Diaspora

Participants

Ramekon O’Arwisters, artist and 3.9 Art Collective member

Tim Roseborough, artist and 3.9 Art Collective member

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. From August 27 through October 1, Community Voices will feature speakers from the 3.9 Art Collective.

The 3.9 Art Collective is an association of African American artists, curators, and art writers who live in San Francisco and came together to draw attention to the city’s dwindling population of black residents. The Collective bears witness to this phenomenon and seeks to reverse it by drawing attention to the historical and ongoing presence of black artists in the city and creative expression in its black communities.

Artadia Awardee and Eureka Fellow Ramekon O’Arwisters is a San Francisco-based, social-practice artist, originally from North Carolina. He creates collaborative, community-based art projects infused with folk art traditions and techniques to foster and support a culture of community building. O’Arwisters’s Crochet Jams invite the public to participate in the traditional folk art of crocheting rag rugs. O’Arwisters is curator of fine art photography at the SFO Museum.

Tim Roseborough is a digital artist whose work explores the notions of games and play and how each intersects with both art and daily living.