Community Voices: Octavia Yearwood & Kandy Lopez-Moreno at Art Lit 2022

By Press release submission

Dec 22, 2021

NSU Art Museum recently issued the following announcement.

NSU Art Museum is partnering with various community organizations including the Broward County Public Library System to host a variety of workshops as part of the Community Voices Series, NSU Art Museum’s new initiative supported by the Community Foundation of Broward, that focuses on exploring social and racial inequalities and challenging social structures, including representation in museums.

ArtLit is the official opening celebration of Broward County Library’s “NEA Big Read 2022”, which features the graphic novel, The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by award-winning author, Thi Bui. Powerhouse motivational speaker, Octavia Yearwood will lead an interactive discussion based on migration and how to identify with the notion of ‘home’. Visual Artist and Professor, Kandy Lopez-Moreno will host a workshop for teens and adults where she will demonstrate a monotype printing technique used to convey messaging and imagery. Participants will have the opportunity to create their own artwork using the same method.

Octavia Yearwood is an artist, programmatic curator, and author. Yearwood creates and hosts programs for arts institutions, organizations, and companies nationally. Over the last 15 years, aside from being an arts educator, Yearwood has made her mark in various art mediums from film, art curation, and book publishing. Amongst being named “Best Author in Miami” by the Miami New Times, Yearwood was recognized as an Emerging Arts Leader by Americans for the Arts, top 40 black leaders by Legacy magazine, and was the recipient of an Ellie from Oolite Arts and Awardee by The Knight Foundation. Her debut docuseries The Tranz Form is currently on AppleTV and OUTtv. Her book How The Hell did You DO That?! is in 50 MDC Libraries. Yearwood has written for publications such as Blavity’s 21 Ninety, XoNicole, and Bustle on trauma, and creativity. Yearwood sits and various boards that support youth, the arts, and social justice. Www.OctaviaYearwood.com

Kandy G. Lopez-Moreno. M.F.A., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts at the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences. As a visual artist, Professor Lopez-Moreno explores constructed identities, celebrating the strength, power, confidence and swag of individuals who live in urban and often economically disadvantaged environments. With a variety of mediums, her images develop a personal and socially compelling visual vocabulary that investigates race, the human defense mechanism, visibility and armor through fashion, and gentrification. Professor Lopez-Moreno wants her artwork to help educate, communicate and foster uncomfortable topics that we seem to look past or avoid in our multi-cultural society. Representing individuals within underserved communities in the U.S., these portraits help her, as a female Afro-Dominican American, come to terms with the way she too must adopt and perform identities of survival.

Details

Date:

January 15, 2022

Time:

12:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Event Categories:

Education, Featured

Organizer

NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale

Phone:

954-525-5500

Venue