In collaboration with Caribbean InTransit, Urban Arts Space is proud to host a panel on “Art Making in a Post-Covid Era: Diversity in the Face of Adversity” as part of The Meeting Place Festival.
All festival events will be streamed live via The Meeting Place Community web platform, with panels across the US and the Caribbean, including Haiti, Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados, Puerto Rico, Florida, and Ohio (that's us!). The theme of the fourth arts festival is “FICTIONS,” in keeping with the theme of the seventh issue of the Caribbean InTransit journal.
About the Panel
The panel will examine poignant issues that artists, creatives, and communities are dealing with “post Covid,” particularly issues that disproportionately impact Black and Afrodiasporic groups of people. Panelists will address various topics:
- What does art, research and programming, and community look like in a "post-Covid era"?
- In what ways do we make sense of arts and cultural equity?
- How do we (re)define “success” as artists and community arts organizations through arts administration, management, and entrepreneurship practice?
- How can we support creative justice through the recognition and cultivation of authentic, creative Black spaces?
Uniquely, this panel examines these issues from the perspectives of an arts organization, academia and an academic university, researcher and student, professional artist, and the private sector within the creative economy. By hearing from panelists within these various areas, attendees can map where and how those areas intersect while framing the conversation within the investigation of the Black aesthetic and Black and Afrodiasporic experience.
About the Festival
The Meeting Place Festival seeks to create a living archive, a less filtered and more performative engagement surrounding the theme of the journal issue. The aim is to embody the long-held values of Caribbean InTransit: interaction, interrogation, diversity, and movement, and further embolden our mission to “cultivate a spirit and community of artistry, entrepreneurship, and networking.”
Panelists:
- Terron Banner, MBA/PhD (The Ohio State University Department of Arts Administration, Education, and Policy & the OSU Urban Arts Space)
- Adéwálé Adénlé, MFA/ABD (The Ohio State University Department of Arts Administration, Education, and Policy & the OSU Urban Arts Space)
- Iyana Hill (The Ohio State University Department of Art, African American and African Studies, & the OSU Urban Arts Space)
- Sydney Summey, BFA (The Ohio State University Department of Art & the OSU Urban Arts Space)
- Mario Hairston (Sole Classic & Canvaas Consulting)
- Arris Cohen (Sir’Ra Aesthetics)