The Parrish Art Museum will present a live-stream discussion on women artists and their profound and turbulent experiences of migration through the lenses of politics, war, love, and family, on Friday, March 5, at 5 PM, in honor of International Women’s Day.
Grace Aneiza Ali, Kathy Engel, and Ellyn Toscano will each present their work from the book, “Women and Migration: Responses in Art and History,” followed by a conversation moderated by Corinne Erni, the museum’s Senior Curator of ArtsReach and Special Projects.
“Women and Migration: Responses in Art and History” — edited by Deborah Willis, Ellyn Toscano, and Kalia Brooks Nelson — is a collection of essays that charts how women’s experiences of migration have been articulated in writing, photography, art, and film, covering the Caribbean Diaspora, refugees, and slavery. The contributors, which include academics and artists, offer both personal and critical points of view on the artistic and historical sources of these experiences.
“I’m delighted to invite such an illustrious group of women writers to talk about the reasons why people are compelled to leave their homes and how women artists’ practices have been shaped by these experiences,” said Erni.
Aneiza Ali is an independent curator and a faculty member in the Department of Art and Public Policy at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Engel is the Associate Arts Professor of the Department of Art & Public Policy at Tisch. Toscano is Senior Director of Programing, Partnerships and Community Engagement at NYU in Brooklyn and former Executive Director of NYU Florence, Italy.
The public is invited to join the talk, which is part of the Museum’s Friday Nights Live! series. The program is part of the annual THAW fest sponsored by the Hamptons Arts Network. Visit parrishart.org.