DUE TO COVID-19 PRECAUTIONS, THIS PROGRAM WILL BE PRESENTED VIRTUALLY ON ZOOM TONIGHT. IT WILL NO LONGER BE IN-PERSON AT MOAD.

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One of the most heated public debates splashes art and the work of artists across our nation’s front pages. As long-standing statues become the subjects of protest and action, and monuments’ pedestals are vacated—at times involuntarily—around the world, artists and activists are called to explore the difference between monuments and public art. How can we elevate non-traditional monuments? Who gets to control the narrative and how do BIPOC artists choose to memorialize their past? 

Join the Museum of the African Diaspora and the Goethe-Institut San Francisco for a conversation featuring esteemed changemakers Morning Star Gali, Jeffrey Yip, and Dana King, that tackles some of the most widely debated questions in contemporary memory culture. The conversation will be moderated by Anna Lisa Escobedo of the New Monuments Taskforce.

Dana King prefers sculptures because they inhabit space and space is power. She believes sculpture provides an opportunity to shape culturally significant memories that determine how African descendants are publicly held and remembered. King’s classical, figurative work explores a subversive concept in a traditional form. She creates Black bodies in bronze, recontextualizing a medium often used to elevate Eurocentric and white supremacist statuary. King’s public sculptures are in West Oakland, CA., South Berkeley,CA., New Haven, CT., and Montgomery, AL.  On Juneteenth, 2021, King’s “Monumental Reckoning” was installed in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. It is the park’s first monument representing the history of African descendants created by an African American woman. Dana King is the recipient of the 2021 Artadia Award and is a 2021-22 California Arts Council Fellow. Image credit: Christopher Michel

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Morning Star Gali is a member of the Ajumawi band of the Pit River Tribe located in Northeastern California. She serves as Project Director for Restoring Justice for Indigenous Peoples (RJIP) and as the California Tribal and Community Liaison for the International Indian Treaty Council, working for the Sovereignty and Self Determination of Indigenous Peoples and the recognition and protection of Indigenous Rights, Treaties, Traditional Cultures and Sacred
Lands. She serves on a number of advisory committees that advocate for the sovereignty and self-determination of California’s Indigenous peoples and sacred landscapes. Since 2008 Morning Star has been a rotating host on KPFA 94.1’s “Bay Native Circle” and is the proud mother of four children.

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Jeffrey Yip is an interdisciplinary artist of color based out of Oakland, producing installations and performances with an emphasis on using technology as a tool of creation. Interested in uniting the senses as an approach to building experiences, he often combines light and sound in physical as well as virtual spaces. Thematically his work revolves around exploring technology to facilitate healing as a form of radical justice and often works collaboratively to create sustainable communities.

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Anna Lisa Escobedo is a visual artist, muralist, artivist, event producer, cultural worker, and networker.She is the Calle 24 Latino Cultural District co-founder and chaired the Cultural Arts Committee with over 20 active members. Her most rewarding accomplishment is working directly with the community and artists. She has worked on numerous art projects and community-based organizations in the SanFrancisco (SF) Bay Area. Anna Lisa's goals are to support artists, creators and grow the vibrancy of the arts and culture ecosystem in the Bay Area.

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This program is co-sponsored by The Goethe-Institut San Francisco

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