The New Social Environment#63
Njideka Akunyili Crosby with Jason Rosenfeld
Featuring Crosby and Rosenfeld
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Artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby joins Rail Editor-at-Large Jason Rosenfeld for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Ed Steck.
In this talk
Njideka Akunyili
Njideka Akunyili was born in Enugu, Nigeria, in 1983 and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. The artist was awarded an honorary doctorate from Swarthmore College in May 2019. She is also the recipient of a 2017 MacArthur Fellowship and has received a number of awards and grants, including the Prix Canson, 2016; Next Generation honor, New Museum, 2015; Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize, 2015; and the James Dicke Contemporary Artist Prize, The Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2014, among others. She was an Artist in Residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem in 2011-2012.
Jason Rosenfeld
Distinguished Chair and Professor of Art History at Marymount Manhattan College Jason Rosenfeld, Ph.D., has curated the exhibitions John Everett Millais (Tate Britain, Van Gogh Museum), Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde (Tate Britain and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC), and River Crossings (Olana and Cedar Grove, Hudson and Catskill, New York). He is a co-author of the monograph Cecily Brown (Phaidon, 2020), and a Senior Writer and Editor-at-Large for the Brooklyn Rail.
The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we’re fortunate to have Ed Steck reading.
Ed Steck
Ed Steck is a writer from Pittsburgh, author of The Garden, An Interface for a Fractal Landscape, Mountain Forge Serviceberry Systems, more.
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