The New Social Environment#721
Didier William: Nou Kite Tout Sa Dèyè
Featuring William and Charles Schultz, with Ugochi Egonu
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Didier William joins Rail Managing Editor Charles Schultz for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Ugochi Egonu.
In this talk
Didier William
Didier William is originally from Port-au-Prince, Haiti. His work has been exhibited at the Bronx Museum of Art, The Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, The Museum at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and The Carnegie Museum, among others. William was an artist-in-residence at the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, and he is the recipient of several awards including the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grants, and a Pew Fellowship. He is currently Assistant Professor of Expanded Print at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.
Charles Schultz
Writer and editor Charles Schultz is Managing Editor of the Brooklyn Rail.
The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we’re fortunate to have Ugochi Egonu reading.
Ugochi Egonu
Ugochi Egonu (they/she) is a freelance writer, editor, and performance artist currently based in Brooklyn, NY. They write to heal, learn and build community. They are currently the editor of the forthcoming anthology Before We Become Ancestors: By and For Queer and Femme Nigerians. Their work has appeared in publications like Rookie Magazine, Refinery29, and Teen Vogue.
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