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Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s–Today, ICA

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Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s–Today gathers artworks by 28 artists connected to the region, including standout works by María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Teresita Fernández, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Deborah Jack, Ana Mendieta, Suchitra Mattai, Lorraine O’Grady, and Ebony G. Patterson. Full of new ideas, this far-reaching and evocative exhibition looks at the complexities of the region with “rigor, beauty, and aplomb” (Art in America). 

The exhibition is anchored in the concept of diaspora, the dispersal of people through migration both forced and voluntary. Here, diaspora is not a longing to return home but a way of understanding that we are always in movement and that our identities are in constant states of transformation. Works on view explore how much of our personal and collective histories we carry in our bodies and how art-making can reflect cross-cultural exchanges. 

This exhibit will be on display at the ICA until Feb 25, 2024. For more information, visit this link.

Natural Wanderment: Stewardship. Sovereignty. Sacredness.

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Boston University Arts Initiative, in partnership with Boston University Art Galleries, announces a special exhibition at 808 Gallery in spring 2024: Natural Wanderment: Stewardship. Sovereignty. Sacredness., which is part of the expansive Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America. The book by the same name was published in April 2023, and instantly became a New York Times Best Seller.

Created by acclaimed visual artist and social documentarian Matika Wilbur, who is from the Tulalip & Swinomish Tribes, Project 562 is a bold creative expedition to collaborate with each of the 562-plus sovereign Native American nations in the United States in their own territories for superb photographic portraits and compelling narratives of contemporary Native American identity. Over the course of producing Project 562, Wilbur traveled through all 50 states, from Seminole country, now known as the Everglades in South Florida, to Inuit territory, now known as the Bering Sea in Alaska. By her estimation, she photographed some 1200 people, personally visiting about 400 different tribes. This creative, consciousness-shifting work is now distributed as curricula in partnership with the National Education Association: “A Visual Leaning Guide to Transform, Indigenize & Decolonize,” in her 416 page book published by Ten Speed Press, at various exhibitions around the world, through her podcast All My Relations, and at Project562.com.

For more information, visit https://www.bu.edu/art/natural-wanderment-stewardship-sovereignty-sacredness/.

The 2023 James and Audrey Foster Prize (ICA Boston)

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The 2023 James and Audrey Foster Prize presents the work of Cicely Carew (b. in Los Angeles), Venetia Dale (b. in Winfield, IL), and Yu-Wen Wu (b. in Taipei, Taiwan). Encompassing a wide range of media, from sculpture and installation to time-based media and works on paper, the exhibited projects demonstrate how these Boston-area artists each uniquely engage with the theme of states of change, whether through personal experiences, the passage of time, or in the very nature of materials undergoing transformation in the making of an artwork. First established in 1999, James and Audrey Foster endowed the prize (formerly the ICA Artist Prize) and exhibition to nurture and recognize exceptional Boston-area artists.

This exhibit will be open from August 24, 2023 - January 28, 2024. For more information about the installations and the artists, visit https://www.icaboston.org/exhibitions/2023-james-and-audrey-foster-prize/. Admission to the ICA is free for Boston University students with a valid student ID.