Media
Recent Talks & Events:
Navigating by Starlight//PhDs of Practice, Commencement Speaker, Brown University Doctoral Graduation Ceremony, Providence, RI, (May 2025)
Owning Our History: No Turning Back, Invited Panelist, First Unitarian Church and Meeting House, Providence, RI (May 2025)
The Dark Delight of Being Strange, In Conversation with author James B. Haile III, Symposium Books, Providence, RI (April 2025)
Curatorial Ethics in Rhode Island, Invited Talk and Seminar Organizer, Providence Biennial for Contemporary Art Curators Circle, (September 2024)
When We Are Seen, In Conversation with Denise Young, former Worldwide Chief of Human Resources, Apple on Emergent Cultural Strategy and Belonging, Lincoln School, Providence RI (September 2024)
Civic Imagination: a salon-style workshop and discussion inspired by James Baldwin & bell hooks, (September 2024), Curiosity &. Co, Jamestown, RI.
Marvelous Weapons: Q&A with dir. Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Providence World Music African Film & Arts Festival (September 2024)
Art & the Freedom Struggle: Community Mixer and Discussion, AS220 Blackbox Theatre, Providence, RI (May 2024)
Commencement Forum: Art, Incarceration, and Creating Activation Spaces, John Hay Library, Providence, RI (May 2024)
Critical Curating: The Black Biennial, lecture at Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI (March 2024)
Afrosurrealism, Panel Chair, International Society for the Study of Surrealism, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (November 2023)
Select Presentations
Reimagining Cultural Frameworks: Afrosurrealism in Practice (2025)
Research Matters Featured Speaker, Brown University
On Afrosurrealism, cultural thought, and transformations in imaginative practice & design thinking.
Curators in Conversation (2023):
Providence Biennial for Contemporary Art, WaterFire Arts Center.
On my curated exhibition, “Poiesis: Street Culture & the Art of the City” for the Curating Commemoration Biennial.
State of Black Studies (2022)
Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown University.
A report and discussion on the state of Africana Studies/Black Studies in higher education.