SHELLYNE RODRIGUEZ is an artist, teacher, agitator, and community organizer from the Bronx. These multiple roles have converged and have been in conflict in myriad ways throughout the years and have sown lessons as well as unanswered questions. Join us for a candid discussion of Shellyne’s experiences as a community organizer and an artist. Together we will look back at confrontations with the artworld and its complicity in real estate speculation, the citywide protests in 2019 known as FTP, which set the stage for the 2020 uprisings in New York City, and the struggle to maintain an art practice that walks beside the political, hand in hand.
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Sponsored by Beinecke Library, the Postwar Culture Working Group, and the Whitney Humanities Center. For more information about the ART & PROTEST SERIES or to join the mailing list, write to kevin.repp@yale.edu.
More about Rodriguez: http://www.shellynerodriguez.com/