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William Rhodes; photo: courtesy the artist
Talks

Community Voices: A Public Dialogue with William Rhodes

Thursday, Sept 24, 2015

5 p.m.

Museum of the African Diaspora

Participants

William Rhodes, 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.

William Rhodes is an artist working out of San Francisco. His art examines themes of hidden knowledge, iconographic imagery and form, and how meaning varies depending on the cultural context. Explorations into the contrast between traditional cultures and our modern one add depth to the narrative quality of his work.