An Artist Exhibit and Talk with Paula Mans
Join visual artist, art educator, and native Washingtonian Paula Mans as she discusses her 2023 series entitled See Me. See Me contemplates how Black people respond to dynamics of (in)visibility while navigating the dehumanizing systems of racialized surveillance, displacement and gentrification. Reflecting on her family's experience in northwest DC, Mans will share how experience is manifest in her art. Through her works, Mans critically assesses the objectification of Black people, amplifying their agency by way of the Black Gaze. Rather than being reduced to bodies that are surveilled, consumed, and discarded, Mans’ figures look defiantly out onto the world - confronting, questioning, and challenging the viewer.
Rachael Bohlander, a mixed-media artist, who resides and works in Washington, D.C. She has an MFA from New York Studio School and is an instructor in studio arts at the Washington Studio School, Washington, D.C.
This program is presented in association with Undesign the Redline, an exhibit created by Designing the We that explores the history of explicit race-based exclusion, specifically in upper Northwest DC. The exhibit helps us understand why inequities in housing and wealth persist, and encourages us to ask how we can “undesign” these wrongs. Suitable for middle-school aged children and older. Undesign the Redline is on display from April 11-July 11, 2024 at the Cleveland Park Neighborhood Library, 3310 Connecticut Avenue, NW. Find the schedule of other programs and learn more at undesigndc.org.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Educational Program |