Art on My Mind Session 1: Reading Group with Kathy-Ann Tann

Join us Tuesday 5th July at NCAI for the first of two reading groups led by our TURN 2 curator-in-residence Kathy-Ann Tan. In the first session we will read the introduction and the first chapter, "Art on my Mind", of bell hooks' Art on my Mind: Visual Politics (1995). In her series of meditations on the revolutionary potential of art and its visual politics, the role of institutions and how art continues to be an empowering and liberatory force for Black communities around the world, bell hooks addresses her reader with an urgency that is ever so relevant today. We will reflect on how Nairobi's institutions and art collectives have reflected Kenya's changing artistic and cultural landscape from the 1980s till the present day, and delve into the works of some local artists including Sane and Eunice Wadu. Participants are welcome to experience the retrospective exhibition of Sane Wadu's work, "I Hope So" at NCAI and to peruse the works before or after the reading group session. Image: Book cover of bell hooks' Art on my Mind