Join us for this dynamic virtual event featuring artist-in-residence Mildred Beltré in conversation with María Magdalena Campos-Pons. Mildred Beltré’s work is on view at NYU in the exhibition Allow Me to Gather Myself. María Magdalena Campos-Pons’ work is featured in the exhibition Behold at the Brooklyn Museum (September 15 - January 14, 2024) which spans nearly four decades.
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“Allow Me to Gather Myself” is made possible with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Ford Foundation.
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Mildred Beltré is a multi-disciplinary artist invested in grassroots activism, social justice, and political movements. Her work spans photography, print-making, drawing, text-based formats, and fiber arts. Across these diverse mediums, Beltré carries forth the legacies of revolutionary protests and civil rights movements, while bringing in elements of desire, pleasure, and humor. She is the co-founder of the Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine (BHAM), an arts initiative in Crown Heights, Brooklyn that addresses gentrification and community building.
Maria Magdalena Campos Pons
“I claim space for women's issues, collecting and telling stories of forgotten people, in order to foster a dialogue to better understand and propose a poetic, compassionate reading of our time. My work over the past 35 years addresses Postcoloniality and the complexities that entangle the narratives, connections and mutual dependency of the North and the South. My work speaks to an ancestral knowledge and tradition to give a voice to the darkest narratives with grace and aesthetic elegance. Fragility, ephemerality, and a transient quality of time and place are visible components in my vocabulary, which I explore through video, film, photography, installation, and performance. I am compelled by the democratic process of art-making that challenges the participation, presence, and bodily immersion of the viewer.” - Maria Magdalena Campos Pons