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Opening Reception: Mildred Beltré: Working to get there
Sat, Aug 20
|New York
Working to get there’ takes its title from pre-figurative and abolitionist writing and presents prints, drawings, crochets, and human hair installations created between the years of 2002-2022 that represent a powerful struggle for racial and gender equity that is crucial to hope and joy.
Time & Location
Aug 20, 2022, 12:00 PM – Aug 21, 2022, 6:00 PM
New York, Governors Island, New York, NY 11231, USA
About the Event
KODA House #404b on Colonels Row on Governors Island August 12—September 18, 2022
Are the words we use with each other, being kind to each other, any less of a political practice than going to a protest? How do we radically reimagine and enact justice in our relationships, and hearts? How do we bring the revolution home? Through her agitprop work and poetic gestures, Mildred Beltré generates desire and invites imagination to dream with our eyes open wide. ‘Working to get there’ takes its title from pre-figurative and abolitionist writing and presents prints, drawings, crochets, and human hair installations created between the years of 2002-2022 that represent a powerful struggle for racial and gender equity that is crucial to hope and joy.
Mildred Beltré is a multidisciplinary artist invested in community-based work, activism, and social movements. On view are the Chance Woodcuts, the What Is To Be Built, the Skin in…