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Mellon Arts Project Artist-in-Residence, Mickalene Thomas turns her gaze from her arresting, often glittering and provocative mixed-media visual art to present /ˈentrəpē/ - a collaboration of music and art with the multi–Grammy Award-winning jazz musician, Terri Lyne Carrington. Together, they will create a uniquely futuristic, dynamic, provocative and unpredictable experience inspired by Black feminism and Black artistry.
Location: Columbia University's Miller Theatre
Address: 2960 Broadway New York, NY 10027
Registration Required via EventBrite https://bit.ly/4bZXDql
About the Artists
Mickalene Thomas is an acclaimed Brooklyn-based international artist and filmmaker. She received a BFA from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and an MFA from the Yale University School of Art. Thomas is known for constructing complex portraits, landscapes, and interiors to examine how identity and gender are informed by popular culture. She is the recipient of the Newark Museum’s Artistic Impact Award (2022), a Rema Hort Mann Foundation 25th Anniversary Honoree (2022) and the first Black femme artist to have a scholarship in her name at the Yale School of Art (2023).
Terri Lyne Carrington is an NEA Jazz Master, Doris Duke Artist, and multiple Grammy award winning drummer, composer, and educator. She has performed with numerous luminaries such as Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Al Jarreau, Cassandra Wilson, and esperanza spalding, among others. Her extensive recording career includes several albums she released as a band leader such as The Mosaic Project (2011), and Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue (2013), for which she received Grammy Awards. Currently, she serving as Founder/Artistic Director of Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice.
Event Collaborators: Mellon Arts Project at Columbia Uniuversity ; African American & African Diaspora Studies Department-Columbia University (AAADS)Institute for Research in African-American Studies-Columbia University (IRAAS); The Institute For Social And Economic Research And Policy- Columbia University (ISERP); Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University
