Focal Point Podcast Episode 3: Dawoud Bey and Teju Cole
57 minutes
In this special extended episode, photographer Dawoud Bey and writer, critic, and photographer Teju Cole are in conversation with MoCP’s curator of academic programs and collections, Kristin Taylor. Bey and Cole discuss works in the MoCP’s permanent collection by Roy DeCarava and Melissa Ann Pinney as well as their thoughts on seeing, understanding, and creating images in the world today.
Submitted by Marissa Fox, Museum of Contemporary Photography
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Stephanie Dinkins is known for creating platforms for dialogue about artificial intelligence (AI) as it intersects race, gender, aging, and our future histories. She is particularly driven to work with communities of color to co-create more inclusive, fair and ethical artificial intelligent ecosystems.
African-Inspired Hand-Painted Glass Bottles.
The Habit of Healing is an ongoing project capturing moments of life, of rebirth and of hope. These images, created just before and during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 chronicle the ongoing natural process of death, decomposition, regeneration, and growth.
This is a composition I created to reflect the year we have dealt with so far, only three months in.
Submitted by Authentic Enterprises LLC from Chicago
A stylistic view of Chicago.
Artwork that empowers the human spirit, and explores the relativity of interactions through silence and time.
This artist has exhibited at Colby Gallery (Pilsen), amongst other venues.
Ever since I can remember, I've been taught to love nature. I was encouraged to explore the land we lived on, to walk through woods and wander through meadows, to treat the earth gently and respect my fellow creatures.
Transcription references re-presentation (writing, music) as well as the biological crossing of boundaries in gene expression.
I make kites using split bamboo to construct a lattice frame and then cover the frame with cotton duck and "size" the fabric onto the frame.