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All of Sitka's Resident Talks are recorded and posted to Sitka Center's YouTube channel.
Black Art/Ists Gathering Resident Talk
Tuesday, May 4, 2023
4-5:30pm PST
This event is free and held online via Zoom
Pre-registration required
Join us live via Zoom for the final Sitka Resident Talk of 2023. This talk features a collaborative cohort of Black artists curated by 2021 Sitka Resident and Portland-based photographer, dancer and poet Intisar Abioto. This group residency is part of Abioto’s Black Art/Ists project and will help inform the Portland Art Museum’s Black Artists of Oregon exhibition, scheduled for August 2023-March 2024 and guest-curated by Abioto. Enjoy brief 10-minute presentations from six of these practitioners working and living in residence at Sitka Center this spring: Intisar Abioto, Licity Collins, Silver, Akela Jaffi, Melanie Stevens and Mia O'Connor. Come learn about their work and give them a warm Sitka Community welcome in May.
Spring Keynote with Walter Kitundu
Thursday, May 18, 2023
4-5:30pm PST
This event is free and held online via Zoom
Pre-registration required
Kitundu will share his journey from building hand-made turntable instruments to creating large scale public art work in collaboration with community. He will discuss how genuine partnerships with communities generate richer outcomes at the expense of predictability and how public art agencies should cultivate this mode of working, our relationship to tools and how they may constrain our imaginations, the importance of questioning value, surrendering control and what we can learn from birds about how to improvise.
