The New Social Environment#901
William Villalongo: Black Menagerie
Featuring Villalongo and Allison Glenn, with Tongo Eisen-Martin
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1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
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Artist William Villalongo joins Rail contributor Allison Glenn for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Tongo Eisen-Martin.
In this talk
William Villalongo
William Villalongo (b. 1975) strategically uses imagery and material to collage a comprehensive representation of the Black identity. The artist’s kaleidoscopic conversation of signs and symbols explore themes of diaspora, Deep Time, freedom, and transformation. In 2024, Villalongo will have a solo museum exhibition originating at the Grinnell College Museum of Art, Grinnell, IA, traveling to the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI; Museum of Art, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA. He is the recipient of the 2022 Rome Prize, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant.
Allison Glenn
Allison Glenn is a New York-based curator and writer focusing on the intersection of art and public space, through public art and special projects, biennials, and major new commissions by a wide range of contemporary artists. Previous roles include Co-Curator of Counterpublic Triennial 2023 and Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Glenn is currently a Visiting Curator in the Department of Film Studies at the University of Tulsa, organizing Sovereign Futures, and Artistic Director of The Shepherd, a three-and-a-half-acre arts campus part of the newly christened Little Village cultural district in Detroit.
The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we’re fortunate to have Tongo Eisen-Martin reading.
Tongo Eisen-Martin
Originally from San Francisco, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a poet, movement worker, and educator. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people, We Charge Genocide Again, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. His latest book Heaven Is All Goodbyes was published by the City Lights Pocket Poets series, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, and won a California Book Award and an American Book Award.
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