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A painting by Kelly Sinnapah Mary of a woman with black hair and white puffy sleeves emerging from a field of snake plants.

Artist Talk: Kelly Sinnapah Mary

21 July 2022
6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

The Ford Foundation Gallery is pleased to present Artist Talk: Kelly Sinnapah Mary

Past events

A blue-child figure with white wings and a painted gold headband holding a rainbow

Andil Gosine and Rajiv Mohabir: A Pride Love-Up Moderated by Tzarina Prater

13 June 2022
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Painting of a female figure with wavy black hair seated on an armchair surrounded by large green leaves sprouting from the wooden floorboards. She is wearing bright red shoes, a blue and white dress and her exposed skin is covered in foliage.

Exhibition opening: everything slackens in a wreck

1 June 2022
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Image of a digital textile using multiple images and text into a woven grid-like pattern.

Indisposable: Structures of Support After the ADA, Chapter 8

24 February 2022
3:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. EST / 12:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. PST

$Silhouette of artist Allison Leigh Holt looking over water-filled glass spheres and objects that are casting shapes and shadows of refracted light onto the wall.$

Indisposable: Structures of Support After the ADA, Chapter 7

10 November 2021
2:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. EST

A triptych of images zoomed in to soil, grass, and orange fungus.

Indisposable: Structures of Support After the ADA, Chapter 6

23 September 2021
6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. EST

An outline of a black rectangle on top of a light gray background. On either side of the black rectangle are slightly blurry vertical hot pink and dark gray lines.

Indisposable: Structures of Support After the ADA, Chapter 5

9 June 2021
6:00 p.m. - 7:15 p.m. EST

People in colorful clothing and face masks weave multicolored yarn onto a geometric structure outside at a spacious green park

Indisposable: Structures of Support After the ADA, Chapter 4

30 April 2021
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. EST

Three actors in colorful flowing garments sit next to one another and lean against one other

Indisposable: Structures of Support After the ADA, Chapter 3

3 March 2021
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. EST

Sami Schalk wearing a bright colored sparkling bodysuit, eyeglasses, and an iridescent sequin face mask leaning over a supermarket shopping cart

Indisposable: Structures of Support After the ADA, Chapter 2

18 November 2020
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. EST

Artist Vanessa German wearing a white dress with black spots stands in a garden path under a landscaped arch, surrounded by orange, purple, red, and yellow flowers

Listening as an Act of Love / Dispatches from the Future with vanessa german - Session #3

5 November 2020
4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. EDT

Artist Vanessa German wearing a white dress with black spots stands in a garden path under a landscaped arch, surrounded by orange, purple, red, and yellow flowers

Listening as an Act of Love / Dispatches from the Future with vanessa german - Session #2

1 October 2020
3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Person lying on the grass looking at a mountain range.

Indisposable: Structures of Support After the ADA, Chapter 1

17 September 2020
3:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.

Artist Vanessa German wearing a white dress with black spots stands in a garden path under a landscaped arch, surrounded by orange, purple, red, and yellow flowers

Listening as an Act of Love / Dispatches from the Future with vanessa german

1 September 2020
3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Epaul Julien, 13th, 2018 Mixed media photo collage, encaustic wax, acrylic, gesso and resin on wood 28 x 24 inches

Curator-led tour: May 8 (CANCELED)

8 May 2020
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Spirit McIntyre singing and playing the cello

PerSister in Song - Virtual Concert

30 April 2020
4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. EST

Epaul Julien, 13th, 2018 Mixed media photo collage, encaustic wax, acrylic, gesso and resin on wood 28 x 24 inches

Curator-led tour: April 11 (CANCELED)

11 April 2020
10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

The Graduates, founded in 2012, is a performance ensemble composed of four formerly incarcerated women from Louisiana.

Life, a performance by The Graduates

4 March 2020
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Epaul Julien, 13th, 2018 Mixed media photo collage, encaustic wax, acrylic, gesso and resin on wood 28 x 24 inches

Curator-led tour: March 3

3 March 2020
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

PerSister portraits by Allison Beondé

Exhibition opening: PerSister

2 March 2020
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Lola Flash, Syzygy, 2019

Curator-led tour: November 16

16 November 2019
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Utopian Imagination exhibition gallery detail 8

Utopian Imagination | Artists in Conversation

23 October 2019
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Farxiyo Jaamac, IFTIN, 2017, Private Collection

Curator-led tour: October 5

5 October 2019
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Sue Austin | Creating the Spectacle! Part 1: Finding Freedom, 2012 | Video

Curator-led tour: August 17

17 August 2019
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt | The Preying Hands: In a Little Corner Chapel to Mammon in the Cathedral of Moloch, Greed Makes Human Sacrifice Expedient Upon the Altar of Racism, Displacement and Gentrification, 1985 | Mixed-media installation

Curator-led tour: July 13

13 July 2019
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Bradley McCallum & Jacqueline Tarry | Evidence of Things Not Seen, 2008 | Oil on linen, toner on silk

Curator-led tour: July 10

10 July 2019
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Maria Berrio | Nativity, 2014 | Collage with Japanese paper, acrylic and watercolor paint, pencil, and rhinestones

Curator-led tour: June 15

15 June 2019
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Athi-Patra Ruga Umesiyakazi in Waiting, 2015

Exhibition opening: Radical Love

11 June 2019
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Curator-led tour: May

10 May 2019
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Perilous Bodies: Artists in Conversation

Perilous Bodies: Artists in Conversation

12 April 2019
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Curator-led tour: March

16 March 2019
4:00 p.m - 5:00 p.m.

Vanessa German performing in Aetna Theater, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art 2016. Photo Allen Phillips

Exhibition opening: Perilous Bodies

5 March 2019
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

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