Betti Ono
1427 Broadway, Oakland, California 94612
Join MoAD Stories for an incredible evening as we celebrate and explore Black Femininity and Empowerment through a short film by local female filmmaker, following wine, refreshments, and an invigorating panel discussion.
Moderator
Precious J. Stroud is the product of Bay Area hippie, Black Power, alternative, Born Again artist educators. In 2014, Precious founded The BlackFemaleProject to acknowledge and counter the effects of systemic race and gender bias in the workplace. The BlackFemaleProject is a transmedia storytelling effort that aims to collect lessons learned and words of wisdom from African American women and women of African descent. Precious asks, “How will we transfer knowledge from one generation to the next?” By studying how Black women have survived and thrived in a post affirmative action era, she maintains that we will reduce the impact of structural racism and empower a generation.
Panelists
Ericka ¨Miss.Ericka¨ Duke is an Art teacher at West Oakland Middle School, self-taught jewelry artist, and doctoral student at the University of San Francisco. Ericka´s research examines the experiences of Black women of the African Diaspora utilizing Karen Seneferu´s notion of ¨viewing the Black woman as a God¨, bell hooks´ concept of ¨talking back” and the liberated voice. She looks to the intersections of feminism and blackness to explore how Black women can rightfully claim their voices in predominantly white spaces. In her classroom space, she focuses on the discourse of Art in the Oakland community and how local artists combat social inequities via their unique art forms to make sense of their own communities.
Originally from upstate New York, Sequoya Akosua Lee is currently pursuing her BFA in Community Arts at California College of the Arts, with a concentration in Printmaking and Writing. Her practice draws on the current climate of race and femininity in the US, creating work that examines concepts of “blackness.” Her passions lie beyond art, in social justice in an effort to dissect social constructs that exist in our world today through youth education and community conversation.
A native Bay resident, Karen Seneferu earned a B.A. in English from the University of California at Berkeley, and has dedicated her life to working as an educator and artivist. Born during the height of the Black Panther Movement in Oakland, Seneferu is self-taught in her artistic craft and is obsessed with gathering information, imagery and ideas. Using natural and manufactured materials, she boldly examines the ancient and contemporary, turning modern objects into artifacts. Her Afri-futuristic aesthetic explores an intersection between the technological and the spiritual while being grounded in a philosophy that looks at the hidden meaning in space. Karen created and co-curated, The Black Woman is God at the AAACC with Melorra Green, which is currently in development of her 3rd installment.
Our journey will bear witness to the history and emerging identities of women artists from MoAD’s current exhibitions featuring Alison Saar, and Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle.
Entry fee: Sliding Scale $5-10
Purchase Tickets/RSVP :
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Come join us for an evening of celebration.
*Seating is limited
