South 1st Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211
USA
The Cornell Black Alumni Association (CBAA) & The President’s Council of Cornell Women (PCCW) co-sponsor a visit to the Kara Walker exhibit.
When: Friday, June 27, 2014
Where: Domino Sugar Factory South 1st Street @ Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
Time: 6pm-8pm
Cost: FREE
Register here.
New York-based Kara Walker is best known for cut-paper silhouettes and tableaus that complicate traditional narratives of power and repression. Walker’s provocative work, which has taken the form of drawing, painting, text-based work, video, film, performance, and cyclorama, retells historic moments, such as slavery in the Antebellum South and Hurricane Katrina, and has frequently been the subject of controversy.
She has received numerous awards, perhaps most notably in 1997, when she was the second-youngest person ever to receive a MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant.”
A Subtlety (or the Marvelous Sugar Baby) is a homage to the unpaid and overworked Artisans who have refined our Sweet tastes from the cane fields to the Kitchens of the New World on the Occasion of the demolition of the Domino Sugar Refining Plant.
Website:http://creativetime.org/projects/karawalker/about-kara-walker/