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Meet the Artists: What We Leave Behind, with Hands-On Activity

When

Sat, Nov 12, 2022 2:00PM – 4:00PM

Where

Glyndor Gallery

Price

Free

with admission to the grounds

On the closing weekend of What We Leave Behind, this program will include a gallery walkthrough featuring all three exhibiting artists—Dennis RedMoon Darkeem, Estelle Maisonett and Michael Kelly Williams. Artists discuss their work on view, which incorporates discarded objects that speak to connections with both personal and collective histories. Those connections suggest shifting perceptions of value, use and disuse, and longevity and ephemerality, all of which form a portrait of the culture that accumulated and consumed these goods. Working with what some consider rubbish, the artists show a concern for the environment by taking this debris out of the waste stream.

Following the hour-long artist talk, Darkeem will lead a hands-on activity in which participants can learn about the artist’s creative process and cultural background, looking at the significance of walking sticks in Indigenous cultures. Participants are given a walking stick to embellish on their own using beads, shells and recycled materials that are provided.

Registration is encouraged, online or by calling 718.549.3200 x251.

Capacity is limited for the hands-on activity led by Dennis RedMoon Darkeem. A sign-up sheet for interested participants will be available at the gallery desk on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Questions? Please email us at information@wavehill.org or call the telephone number and extension above.

“Meet the Artist” is an ongoing series of conversations between exhibiting artists and the curatorial team at Wave Hill. This program provides an opportunity for Wave Hill visitors, the artist’s community and others to learn more about an artist’s creative process and themes within their work.

Glyndor Gallery is wheelchair-accessible. There is an accessible, ground-level entrance at the front of the building with an elevator that provides access to the gallery level. The Sunroom Project Space can be accessed with an ADA-compliant ramp. The restroom on the gallery level is all-gender and ADA-compliant.

Dennis RedMoon Darkeem

Dennis RedMoon Darkeem

Dennis RedMoon Darkeem is an interdisciplinary artist and art educator who lives and works in the Bronx. He is a member of the Wind Clan within the Yamassee Yat’siminoli tribe. Darkeem is inspired to create artwork based on the familiar objects he views through his daily life and travels. Since starting his work as a professional artist in the early 2000s, it has evolved into critiquing social and political issues aﬀecting the US and Indigenous, Native American culture. Darkeem has exhibited his work at the Museum of the City of New York, Brooklyn Museum, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Wave Hill, Smack Mellon, Rush Arts Gallery, Pelham Art Center and many art and educational venues. He has received fellowships and awards from New York Foundation for the Arts, NYC Teachers Foundation, the Marko Roth Scholarship, and the Price Waterhouse Fellowship. Darkeem is the founder of Redmoon Arts Movement, a non-profit that provides resources to Bronx youth preparing for a career in the arts.

Learn more about the artist at www.dennisredmoondarkeem.com.
Estelle Maisonett

Estelle Maisonett

Estelle Maisonett is a Mexican, Puerto Rican, mixed-media, interdisciplinary artist born and raised in the Bronx, NY. Her work is an investigation of how personal relationships with objects and materials inform preconceived notions of identity, economic status, accessibility, race, sexual orientation and gender. She has exhibited at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Chashama, Silent Barn, Field Projects, BronxArtSpace, El Barrio ArtSpace at PS109, Latchkey Gallery, Longwood Art Gallery, the Andrew Freedman Home, Hostos College, School of Visual Arts and SUNY Purchase College, among others. Awards and residencies include the Alice Kimball Travel grant fellowship, New Wave Artist in Residence, the Bronx Museum’s Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) and BronxArtSpace Summer Artist in Residence. Maisonett is also an arts community worker and educator who has lectured and worked at Parsons School of Design, NYU, Bronx Children’s Museum, Grand Tetons National Parks arts + community program, Free Arts NYC, Department of Education NYC Schools and additional community run spaces in New York. Maisonett earned a BFA from SUNY Purchase College and is currently pursuing an MFA in painting and printmaking at the Yale School of Art.
Michael Kelly Williams

Michael Kelly Williams

Michael Kelly Williams creates sculptures, works on paper, and prints. His art is inspired by music, literature, nature, and the art of the African diaspora. He draws heavily from the art of the ancients and folk art. Concepts that interest him are the spiritual in art, environmental concerns, equality, justice, and Afrofuturism. Williams grew up in Detroit, where he attended Cass Technical High School. He has a B.F.A. from the University of Michigan and an M.F.A. from Brooklyn College. He also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Williams has had residencies at The Studio Museum in Harlem, Materials for the Arts in Long Island City, and Wave Hill in the Bronx. He received the first Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Legacy Publishing Fellowship at the Elizabeth Foundation and was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Grant. His work can be found in several museums and institutions, such as The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York; The Library of Congress, Washington, DC; The Detroit Institute of Arts; and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Williams has been commissioned for various permanent installations, including two mosaic murals located at the Intervale Subway Station (2/5) in the Bronx as well as several glass murals in P.S. 82 Hammond School in Queens, NY.

Learn more about the artist at www.michaelkellywilliams.com

Photo: Celia A. Calvo